I've been staring at a legacy shaft from a deer kill last year. It is still covered in dried blood on the shaft and feathers. I was wondering what you guys do with these arrows if you decide to retire them. Clean them up...let them as is or something else. :)
I don't believe in retiring them. If they're still usable, I clean 'em up, re-sharpen the broadhead, and throw 'em back in the quiver. The way I look at it, that arrows got mojo now... don't want to waste it by hanging it on a wall! :thumbsup:
I'm with Brad on this one. Mo MOJO the better!
I'm with Brad on this one. No sense in wasting an arrow that already knows it's way home!
Ive also got a special 2018 legacy fromlast years deer.I wont target shoot with it but I will hunt with it.Like Brad said its got mojo.
Brad and I think alike as well...wash em off, sharpen em up, and kill again!!! Took 3 with the same arrow last year...then lost it...LOL (yea, I missed...lol)
most of the time i rinse the shafts off, re sharpen the head and stick them back in the quiver. them there arrows have some serious mojo :saywhat:
if you decide to retire one, write the date and all the specifics on the arrow so you can remember 10 years from now which critter goes with which arrow.
I have to agree with all the above about the magic remaining in an arrow that has killed game..
I only have one little problem.... what about the arrows (or parts thereof) that killed trees or rocks instead of what I was aiming at... what do we do with those... :banghead: :archer:
I like the idea of writing the hunt info on the arrow. Kinda a legacy for the kids when I'm gone.
oldgriz, as for those rock/tree arrows, do you think that is how that little rhyme came about?
"I shot an arrow in the air......" ;)
Steve
broken ones on the wall good one back to work
I've got a bunch I've saved over the years...including the arrows from my first and second deer. They mean a lot to me these days.
At one point I had a set of 2219 XX75's that I kept putting up on the wall as each one took game. As I came to my last bowquiver full of that set I realized most of the old ones were in great shape except for the dried blood and gore.
The set went on to take many more animals each. Do what grabs ya!! :) :thumbsup:
I keep using them untill I use them up. :) Since I started shooting carbons I often kill several deer with the same arrow.Hogs do tend to use them up much faster. :D
I go for the MOJO...I need all the help I can get!
Just put a hash mark on it and send it on its way :thumbsup:
I always re-use the arrow if possible but I've kept my 'kill broadheads' ever since the first one. However, the bow kill mounts in my house have the arrow with broadhead attached lying in the racks. HONESTLY, I have a shoe box full of 'kill' broadheads I've saved over the years. I might make a display board for them someday. But, I agree with Charlie "Do what grabs ya".
If it's usable, I'll use it again, if not, well just this week I took the fletched side of the broken shaft and attached it to a home made picture frame. Of course the picture is of the animal I used that arrow to kill. =)
Derek
i wish i could save the arrows i shot through deer, but i never get pass throughs and my aluminums always seem to have some kind of a slight bend in it. i don't quite have the courage to shoot them again since 3 years ago i had a arrow break in half just past the feathers and hit me in the forearm. maybe someday i'll give it a shot.
Rinse and repeat as many times as possible.
I retire mine. It's like turning on a movie projector when I pick one up, I can see every thing that happen on that hunt........stabow
Most of them I clean up and re-use, but a few have been retired over the years. The arrows that took my first deer, elk, hog and moose will probably never hunt again.
I have shot alunimum for a long time and they usually get bent. I take a paint pen and writhe the date, location and what I killed with that arrow and hang them on a couple of nails in the garage blood, hair and all. Interesting how you can look at each and vividly remember every detail of each hunt.
I keep my first kills arrows and they are part of my game room decor (first deer, first bear, etc.) I have a "paw rack" from my first bear and lay the arrow on that or keep a bow there.
I recycle them again.
I don't kill many critters so I think it will get retired with the hunt details on it and such. Having to decide what to do with a kill arrow is a good problem to have, huh? :cool:
I keep shooting them until bent or broken. I think it is great to take more than one bag with the same arrow.
I have always recycled until I saw the signed arrows on the St. Judes auction site. What a nice idea. To have arrows used by Ron and Denny and other leaders in traditional archery signed and labeled with accompaning kill stories and even pictures makes for great memorablilia. Someone out there might think that that is a great way to remember you and carry on your legacy. Think about it and if you happen to be well known to boot its a great way to raise money for a good cause.
i re-cycle it many times, just wash it off, and reuse, if it's bent, leave it the way i found it, take the broadhead off to reuse and stick the shaft up on the wall , (using a pair of deer antlers for a display) at MY hunting cabin.
Like most of the others, I'll use it again, but I add the date of kill.
Last year the deer I shot broke the arrow. It was the second deer with that particular arrow. So I saved the fletched portion, wrote the date on it and put it up on the wall (see picture).
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v355/Hood2/ArrowA.jpg)
use em again until they are no good
Mike, I wipe the fur from small game arrows, but retire big game kill arrows to a wall in my family room. I started writing the dates and hunt specifics on the arrows as well. It's neat to glance up and see them, and remember a specific shot now and then. Heaven knows the deer in our parts have been less than bountiful in recent times, so the bloodied arrows help serve as a reminder that killing something is still possible. :^)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v81/AKinPA/Arrows/KillArrows1a.jpg)
I cut a strip of leather about about 7 X 2", then cut a small slit in the bottom portion. Slide the arrow through the slit and write down the particulars on the leather and pin it to the wall. Memories!
The kill arrows(cedar) have almost always broken off so they hang on the critter's antlers on the wall. The mmmmm-misses sometimes can be recovered intact and I resharpen the Zwickeys for the next time afield.
Mostly they get put back into circulation. There are a few that have been retired, but if they are
able, they fly again.
Sometimes I wish I would have saved them all.