Archery Arrows

Video Transcript

"Hi my name is Chance Platt with Humphries Archery here in American Fork, Utah, and we are here today talking about archery arrows and their components. All about archery arrows. An arrow is made of a few things. You have got a shaft which is, just basically that is all it is, is a shaft, it can be made of wood, Kevlar, graphite, carbon, a lot of different components, aluminum. This particular one is made from graphite. The orange part here you see is called a wrap, a lot of people do not use those, sometimes they do, they will use them for cresting. It is for more than anything just a way to identify your arrow from someone else's. These components are what they refer to as a fledge. With some arrows, they use arrows, some use a plastic fledge. A plastic fledge is a little more durable. That is why most people have gone to those. They come in different shapes and sizes, as you can see this one is about an inch and a half long. This is a three inch. And they are different. And you have a nock, which is the part that hooks onto the string. And then you have an insert, which if you can see is this little metal band here, looks like this when not inside of an arrow. And that is threaded on the inside so that it allows for your practice tip, like this, to thread into the arrow and you will have something you can shoot into a target time and time again."