I am tired of losing my arrows and thought about painting them at the nock.  Or even easier wrapping a tape between the feather and the nock.

It seems that strontium aluminate paint is the newest and longest lasting (12 hours) of the poshperous paints.  Has anyone tried this?

I have found some tape here, but apparently its very rough...
http://www.amazon.de/product-reviews/B005ZQDSSK/ref=cm_cr_dp_hist_three?ie=UTF8&filterBy=addThreeStar&showViewpoints=0

Thanks
Alex

...if you are roving / stump shooting: use zwickey judo points or charly points (tophat) or any point like these, they prevent arrows from burrying / getting lost in leafs, grass, ... they also stop "ricochet" arrows quite quick

ps: i'm speaking from my own experience i was tired of loosing arrows so often. i addition to the special points i use fluorescent colours for cresting (e.g. http://www.conrad.at/ce/de/product/243949/Tamiya-86027-Color-Lexanspray-Neon-Gelb-Farb-Code-PS-27100-ml-Spraydose?ref=searchDetail - not phospherouscent!)

Ofcourse Elha's suggestion is probably best... but try as I might

Anyway, it seems that people don't really find phosphor paint very useful... I liked the idea, because it does not require any additional equipment like a torch and also does not add any significant weight to the arrow and thus change its performance...

Juddo's I will buy, but will mostly shoot with 125 gr field points...I am hoping that I can swap between Juddos, field point and eventually braodheads all at 125 grains and not change the arrows performance too much...But I think that is another thread...

I will try the best paint(strontium aluminate) they have available right now and see how it goes....Thanks for all the comments

Cheers
Alex
How to make you own illuminating nocks see here:
http://youtu.be/hMqLT-4ezzk

what about RFID? A mini RFID Chip into the shaft and a small RFID Scanner should work, if you know where the arrow could be.
If you don't know where the arrow is, you'll need a better scanner...

could/should work, I thought about that for our turtles... now one has gone without a chip
the small ones do not big range, so the scanner has to get near to them, and I didn't want to spend hundrets of € for a Motorola scanner.

At work, we have an electronics department.... I could ask about your idea...

Regarding the phosphorescent paint..I bought Rayher Nachtleucht Medium today and have painted both bare wood and varnished wood 3 times.

The results are very disappointing... However, I do not know if this paint contains Strontium Aluminate or the older much duller chemical previously in common use... I guess I must buy some paint which explicitly say strontium Aluminate..

One thing should be noted, when the paint is dry it feels like sandpaper... So They must be varnished afterwards... I gues the varnish will effect how well they are charged up to, but I must test this later...

Cheers
Alex