Arrow wrapping

[Big Indian]

Does anyone here wrap their own arrows? Pros/cons of doing?  Would like some valuable input from anyone. I have seen many videos and I am sure I can do it, with some practice trial/error.

Does it do anything to the weight/flight etc?

Thanks, I look forward to everyone's opinion.

[dbHunterNY]

my trad arrows have a ton of weight up front so wraps add a little weight to the back end to offset so much front of center balance.  helps adhesion at times for vanes or fletches.  i've used the wraps with adhesive back (sticker like) and the shrink fletches with vanes on a wrap you dip into boiling water.  they all work.  that said i don't use wraps under vanes/fletches.  trad arrows and hunting arrows of mine have a thinner width C-EZ reflective wraps that form a band just in front of my vanes or fletches.  helps find my arrow.  biggest reason is nock ends of carbon arrows can develop cracks and a wrap can hide them or cover up the issue.  similar to broken strands of a string behind center serving on an old bow string.

[dbHunterNY]

another thing if you use a wrap under vanes and lose a vane while shooting, you have to strip the whole thing off and put on new vanes and wrap.

[Jeremy K]

I just did a couple half dozen recently , The glue is a pain in the rear to remove from a bare shaft ,thats reason enough for me to use wraps . I recently switched to aae vanes instead of blazers .

[Jeremy K]

[Jeremy K]

[moog5050]

I use wraps because it's easier to find my arrows, sometimes. 

[Jeremy K]

4 minutes ago, moog5050 said:

I use wraps because it's easier to find my arrows, sometimes. 

Something tells me you don't lose arrows very often.

[fasteddie]

Here are the arrow wraps that I had made for me several years ago 

 

[moog5050]

1 hour ago, Jeremy K said:

Something tells me you don't lose arrows very often.

More than I would like admit.  Lol

[The_Real_TCIII]

I saw no effect on flight and because I used white they're easy to find after your shot and blood showed up great on them

[chrisw]

I only buy bare shafts because the first thing I do is wrap them. Wraps are simple to put on (use a computer mousepad), look great and make finding arrows easier. If you're setup has enough weight forward already I don't think you'll see an effect from the wrap. With that said, if you put a wrap, heavy vanes and a lighted nock on the arrow you'll most likely notice a difference. Everyone's setup is different though. I'm all for wraps, never had a complaint about them. Installation, removal etc... I've done thousands of arrows in the past. What most people do a crappy job of is fletching the arrow afterwards is mostly what I've seen.

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[fasteddie]

A few members have mentioned that the wraps make it easier to find arrows . That made me think about how they used to sell Camo Arrows . What were they thinking ? 

[Big Indian]

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Thanks, all. As usual, great info from our members !

 

[NFA-ADK]

I brought a few and found some fell off when setting it and others on flight so I stopped using them.  (They where old!)  I found fletching them myself fun and rewarding so I do that now.  Lucky for me I don't loose to many from shooting as most of our targets are in good shape.  Most times I loose fletching from others hitting my arrow.  I also loved my camo arrows!  lol