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Why Long Lasting Lighted Arrow Nocks Are so Great!

Hunting sessions can literally test your patience. Right from the endless hours of waiting for your game, to finally getting your shot right, everything needs to be just perfect and at the right time. In such a scenario, if you are using lighted nocks that do not stay lit for long, you can lose the precious game you waiting so long for. This is where long lasting lighted nocks come to the rescue.

Long battery life

Gone are the days when you had to make do with conventional lighted nocks. Today's modern collections of nocks have Lithium batteries, which have a 5 year lifespan. This means that they will stay lit for 40 hours at a stretch. These batteries are the size of pins and have powerful LEDs, which are 20 times brighter when compared to the regular LEDs.

Intense lighting

The new-age lighted nocks are not just long lasting but also have brighter lighting to ensure you never lose your game or your arrows. You can hope to see a downed game at even distances as large as 65 yards or so. Even if it is completely dark outside you can use these ultra bright lighted nocks to see your arrow's flight for many hundred yards.

Light weight

The modern lighted nocks are not bulky and heavy as their predecessors. Instead, today's new crop add a mere 15 to 22 grains of weight to the arrow. Thus, these lighted nocks are made in keeping with the mind of a hunter who always wants a precision shot with great accuracy. With such lightweight nocks, you can easily down your game in the shortest time.

Versatile functioning

The long lasting range of lighted nocks are designed to stay lit even if they get removed from the arrow shaft. The plastic polycarbonate nocks have sizes and fitting to be compatible with almost all major arrow shafts. Depending on the hunting environment, a hunter can select the most appropriate arrow shaft and then use the lighted nocks accordingly. Installation of these nocks is so easy that even a layperson can do it.

Wire connectors for battery

The collection of long lasting lighted nocks also comes with a specially designed cross wire connectors for the battery. This exclusive design, currently seen in the Firenock series, avoids the usage of a heavy casing. This way, when the arrow shaft touches the game the impact can easily be absorbed by this special design.

No accidental switching on

The special switches available in the long lasting lighted nocks have a axis tolerance of at least 150 g. This design feature enables more reliability in the switch. No longer is there a risk of the switch turning on by mistake.

Game recovery is easier

The ultra long lasting lighted nocks have an intense, bright light which stay lit for at least 40 hours at a stretch. This makes it easy for the hunter to locate any downed prey, even when it is completely dark. Since the nocks stay lit even if the shaft is removed, the hunter can locate both the game as well as the arrows.

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Is it posibble for an archer to use a long sword as his arrow?

i was curious about this thought when i was running through my comic brainstorm ideas. given the archer has a back ground on strength, say he was a body builder/ blacksmith. or had/has any occupation that has imbued him with strength. would it be possible to use a bow (customized, made of steel of some sort) to fire or launch a sword, long sword, as a projectile? 0_o

In real life, no. The reason being that even assuming that the bowstring was strong enough, and the mass of the sword was low enough, there is no way for the hilt to pass the handle of the bow. The hilt of a sword doesn't lay flat against the blade (especially on a longsword).

The next issue is flight.. assuming you launched the sword, the weight is balanced incorrectly, it would try to tumble end-over-end. On a longsword, the weight is set to be about 8 -11 inches about the hilt (on the blade). That's not at the tip, where it would need to be for "arrowlike" flight.

There's also no stabilizer fins. I don't know the full effect of not having those, but I would assume it would affect the accuracy of the flight. In theory, the weight is in the arrowhead, and the balance is in the tail. Some are designed to spin (like a football in flight) to stop the wind from just blowing it off-target.

Also, the thinness of an arrow is because you want the centerline of the arrow to travel as close to the bowhandle as possible. A bow would need to have an offset bowstring, which would make it even harder to draw without twisting the bow in your hands.

In fantasy? well, if I read that in a book, I'd wonder about things like the metal blade not cutting the metal bow.. In reality, it might not, but in fantasy, it suggests that the blade isn't sharp enough.

In fantasy, you might be able to use a bow designed more like a slingshot, where the body of the bow wouldn't be in the way, and essentially use "magical" strength, or a compound bow to get the draw strength you'd need to launch an 8-9 pound sword.

I'd suggest using a specially designed "sword dart" to help it make sense to the reader and seem more realistic. You could explain what they are "minimally" to avoid making them seem too unrealistic.

Plus, if you strapped 10 of those longswords to your back, you'd be carrying 80 pounds of excess weight, and assuming you felt that it was worth carrying that much weight in-order to shoot longswords, with their size and harness requirements.. they might look kinda' silly.

If you wanted to stick with longswords, I'd suggest having him throw them, perhaps like you'd throw a javelin.. Holding them just in-front of the hilt. I've done that.. just to see what happens, and it's not a BAD flight, but not "useful" in Real life.

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