Many of us like arrows that are easy to see and follow, especially so for hunting arrows. Clear fluorescent nocks really help with visibility, and here is a little trick to brighten them up even more: Apply some white paint on the nock tapers before you glue the nocks onto your arrows. The white paint reflects more ambient light through the plastic and makes the nocks even brighter, especially in low light.
The paint can be applied to the nock taper before or after the finish coats, and I’ve used both water base enamel and auto touch up paint with good results. Just dip or brush it on, let it dry and continue with your arrows as usual. Give it a try. I think you’ll like it.
I also like transparent nocks because cracks are readily visible.
I go a step further, a large step, I paint my whole arrow white. It helps to find them and to better see them in flight, even in low light. And any blood is easy to spot on the shaft too.
Thanks, I’ll put that into “practise”. Additionally arrows feathered in chartreuse coloured feathers stand out clearly when shot during that last 30 minutes of legal light. This became apparent to me when practising during the last 30 when shooting arrows that had been fletched in both bright yellow and chsrtreuse feathers. The yellow fletched shafts were lost to my vision once shot however the chartruice arrows I could follow to the target. Adding the nock tip to my shafts will make for even a better and brighter flight path.
I wonder how “glow in the dark” paint would work. Thanks for the tip!
Great tip. I will put this into practice. Also like David’s idea of chartreuse feathers
Ditto my Edwards Comment the brighter the better
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Outstanding. I should have thought of that trick.
John Borgeson asked me to post this comment for him:
I like fluorescent orange. My feathers on my arrows are fluorescent orange and fluorescent yellow.
Since I live with four women, my wife and 3 girls there is no shortage of womans nail polish. The nail polish comes in a plethora of colors of which my wife and girls have bought every color known to women. So, wanting to make my arrows easier to see and locate in low light conditions, I borrowed a bottle of fluorescent orange womans’ nail polish. I painted one nock end of the arrow and once dry I applied the fluorescent orange nock. As you can see it is brighter even in bright light. The fluorescent orange is quite a bit more attractive to the eye and especially easier to find. There are all different fluorescent colors of womans nail polish to choose from. Even fluorescent pink for those whose arrows are fletched with pink feathers. Give this a test and use a fluorescent color and see if you are not more easily able to locate your arrow the next time you shoot your bow.