NAP Hellfire 3” shrink wrap fletching.

[chiefjason]

As long as these hold up well I’ll never go back. Fletched 6 arrows in about 20 minutes if you include boiling the water. About 5 minutes just dipping them.

Shot them along side my 2” blazers. They shoot the same POI. Shooting through a whisker biscuit so that will test the longevity. But I tore up a lot of glued fletching too.

 

[REELDOC]

Did it soften up the knocks or loosen them up when you boiled them?

 

[chiefjason]

Did it soften up the knocks or loosen them up when you boiled them?

You only hold them in the boiling water for 10 seconds. No deformation of softening that I noticed. I let them sit about 2 hours before shooting them. Mostly to let the wrap set and any water to move out of them. Didn't want to shoot them before they set well.

 

[concepthomes2]

I’ve shot these exclusively through my WB for the last 3 seasons. No wear yet

 

[Goofyfoot2001]

Pretty expensive though

 

[chiefjason]

Pretty expensive though

They are. But if they work well and are tougher than glued fletching it will be fine. Between the time and aggravation to re fletch I’m not going to sweat it.

I was going to have to buy more fletching anyway. Just decided to give this a try. I was shooting 3 bare shafts and one with 2 fletchings so half the arrows I was using were messed up. This gives me 9 fletched arrows so I can start shouting further than 20 yards again.

And the time I saved pays for them in getting more holster work done.

And honestly it’s about $1 to fletch and about $3.33 for the NAPs.

 

[chiefjason]

Another plus is just how easy these are. If you can boil water you can fletch arrows. Let’s more folks have access to fixing their own stuff with less equipment to buy.

 

[heavydoc]

I may have to give them a try

 

[concepthomes2]

And if you do need to replace in the field, don’t have to worry about glue or special jigs or long term degradation of the glue.

Just boil water and refletch.

 

[#1gohunt]

As long as these hold up well I’ll never go back. Fletched 6 arrows in about 20 minutes if you include boiling the water. About 5 minutes just dipping them.

Shot them along side my 2” blazers. They shoot the same POI. Shooting through a whisker biscuit so that will test the longevity. But I tore up a lot of glued fletching too.

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I taught Archery ( and Riflery) at Clemson University for 9 years, after retiring from my previous job. I use to fletch all my arrows but started using the shrink flex about a year after they came out. The only problems I have had is. #1 if you miss the target and hit something hard I have had them slip down the shaft #2 if you shoot through a vane, you can't replace that vane. # 3 this one is kind of petty if you shoot them long enough and didn't buy enough to start with it is hard to find the pattern you are using due to product change. I use a fall away rest so I didn't worry about vane wear or speed slowing down. The results of the Whisker Bisquit say the loss of speed is negligible. And I have read that if you spray vanes with Rain X it reduces it even more. They have greatly improved the Whisker Bisquit over the original one.

 

[concepthomes2]

I taught Archery ( and Riflery) at Clemson University for 9 years, after retiring from my previous job. I use to fletch all my arrows but started using the shrink flex about a year after they came out. The only problems I have had is. #1 if you miss the target and hit something hard I have had them slip down the shaft #2 if you shoot through a vane, you can't replace that vane. # 3 this one is kind of petty if you shoot them long enough and didn't buy enough to start with it is hard to find the pattern you are using due to product change. I use a fall away rest so I didn't worry about vane wear or speed slowing down. The results of the Whisker Bisquit say the loss of speed is negligible. And I have read that if you spray vanes with Rain X it reduces it even more. They have greatly improved the Whisker Bisquit over the original one.

The rain-x trick seems like it'd be pretty fool proof. Thanks for the tip

 

[Squanchy]

I'm guessing these things are more consistent than gluing them yourself? I've always had issues with one or two arrows flying amazing and 4 or 5 other ones not being so great due to my glue jobs.