Has anyone seen this new product for bow hunting?
Hunting May 27th, 2009
Tiffany N asked:
Has anyone seen this new product for bow hunting. Instead of using 3 vanes, it’s a round, open end. I remember seeing it in a magazine, but can’t remember what it’s called or where I saw it at now.
Has anyone seen this new product for bow hunting. Instead of using 3 vanes, it’s a round, open end. I remember seeing it in a magazine, but can’t remember what it’s called or where I saw it at now.
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May 28th, 2009 at 12:35 pm
Are you talking about a FOB. If you are they are designed to not be affected by wind drift as much
May 31st, 2009 at 6:51 am
Yes, I’ve seen these before. Not very useful in any real hunting situations, though, since they are not very flexible and they stick out all around the arrow shaft.
Just think what happens when the bare shaft hits a twig — and then think what happens when that FOB hits the same twig. Not to mention the fact that because of its design, it WILL catch on anything in its path. The FOB can be used ONLY in places with absolutely no brush, no trees, no grass, nothing which might in any way impede the arrow’s flight.
I don’t know of any real hunting situation where those conditions are to be found — except, perhaps, while wing-shooting birds (that’s where you shoot the bird as it flies through the air…).
They may help to make an arrow fly “straighter’, but they do nothing at all for making that same arrow the most effective hunting arrow ever.
The claim that retained energy equals more “speed’ is more than enough to put me on alert. Energy retention is MOMENTUM, not “speed”. That alone makes me wonder what else they either got wrong, or are plain lying about….