I`m pretty much a daily shooter.I have a black hole target and a 3D deer.I usualy shoot between 10 and 30 yards.On some days i lose no arrows at all other days maybe 3.I know i should put up a back stop!I was wondering how many arrows do you lose?I am pretty good at finding them and have a metal detector but i still manage to lose some.
I sending my arrow guy's kids to college, let's put it that way! I can't resist taking those "fun but impossible shots" between saplings etc. I figure it is fun. It is cheaper than golf or handgun shooting. Oh yeah, it is FUN! It's funny though how I will shoot a few boxes of ammo and not even think about the money but then it'll really annoy me to lose an arrow because:"I know RIGHT where it went!" :biglaugh:
Heck No!!
I don't lose'em, they hide from me and I don't like playing hide and seek, so I leave'em there. :D :p :knothead:
Mike
You are supposed to be able to shoot them again?
They play with you too Raw? One day they will get tired of hiding and come out. Especially when they see how much fun their replacements are having...LOL!!!!!!
I have a good back stop so I dont loose many, but that is only because I have a good back stop.
Otherwise, I could not support my habit...
Jake
We must all sacrifice an arrow occasionally to appease :notworthy: the "Arrow Gods"...but losing 3 a day at practice would be too much for me to stand. :banghead:
I have a hungry lawn also! I see them go, but sometimes can never find them??
If one looses arrows one must learn to do the arrow search suffle. I have perfected it!!
It is mandatory to loose one arrow from each dozen :readit: . Once you have chosen the "one " the rest should follow the rules and fly straight :thumbsup: . That is unless the chosen sacrifice arrow has had time to corrupt the others then , well you don't stand a chance :archer: . You'll find you hate to loose them and will start to shoot much better, or look a lot harder to find them . :biglaugh:
LOL.Aim small miss small!!By the way I can send you my mini dachshund Roxey she'll find them arrows for you! Better get them away from her quick though she rips the feathers off the arrows.
QuoteOriginally posted by madness522:
If one looses arrows one must learn to do the arrow search suffle. I have perfected it!!
LOL! I have too!
I treat 'em like shotgun shells. If I miss a clay, I don't go lookin' for the shot!
I can almost guarentee to lose/re-plant one out of every dozen I make, usually the first time I shoot 'em! :D
Don't think of it as 'losing', think of it as 'returning them to the wild' :D :D
I just lost my first one in a long time and it was brand new! It's all the fault of my "new to me" Fedora Jr. Big East. I'm now taking shots way to long for my skill level :) I spent 1/2 hour looking for the bugger and finally figured it must have skipped and went in the river.
Dave in Ft. Collins, CO
What's cool is when ya lose an arrow at a 3D shoot and it is found in the "lost arrow" bucket the next time you go to that club to shoot! Sometimes even a year later. ;)
... mike ...
Did you ever notice that when your at a 3-D
shoot and you are inspecting the back side of the target for wear you find everyone else's arrow but yours. Is that a man law.
I just look at it as an opertunity to make more. I don't normaly loose very many break them well now that's a differant story, I too like to try to make the shoots between the little saplings. Got to love it, You have to enjoy the aroma cedar.
I went and bought a kids metal detector. I think it was around 30 bucks and I have found every arrow that happened to miss and buried in the grass. Paid for itself already. Wise investment.
The ones I can't find my lawn mower finds for me ouch
I don't consider it losing them. I consider it donating them to nature so I can build more.
It never hurts to appease the archery gods.... :thumbsup:
I hate loosein arrows.I hate lookin fer lost arrows even more.The Country around here,is arrow eatin.Im goin to Orange Shafts with Neon Yellow,fletch n nocks.I figure if i cant spot those,then theyve earned the right,ta stay there.
I can't stand to lose an arrow. It borders on obsessive compulsive behavior when I do. For years I shot the old Metric Magnum 8.7s; I bought several doz. shafts when they were taken out of production. I still have 4-5 dozen that I use out of one of my old standby bows. I thought switching to something current would relieve my concerns but I wound up choosing Grizzly Stik Alaskans and can't afford to lose those. Judos help. Grant
If ya hunt in the jungle I hunt in ya are gonna loose arrows, but normally they have gone through something first so I don't feel too bad,LOL. I break more than I loose. But I gots lots of arras and know where to get more,LOL
Danny
I rarely lose arrows, however the granite outcroppings in the backyard and hidden rocks make me wish I lost them rather than watch the sparks fly and hear them shatter into toothpicks or carbon fiber dust! Busted three today! :banghead: I am going to have to learn to make my own I guess. :rolleyes:
At a teaching rondyvoo a couple years ago I was doing the archery demonstration and had made up some shoot arrows with old style trade points and turkey feather fletching to show the kids what they shot "back when".I overshot my backstop and lost one deep into the brush... maybe it will end up in a museum someday. :)
I Used to Lose a LOT of Arrows to the "Swamp Monster" I called the Neighboring Woods, and It Used to REALLY HONK ME OFF!! :notworthy:
Sage advice, no doubt about it. Then My Son, a Sharp Eyed 10 Year Old decided he was going to Brave the Swamp Monster, and Darned if he Didnt FIND all but a Handfull He & I had Lost while Learning to Shoot!! He STILL comes up with One from Time to Time!! Expensive Learning Curve if ya dont START Inside a Range!! Cant Lose them InDoors!!! :archer:
Been awhile since I lost an arrow, when I miss I figure my pennance is finding it,heck last week we shot in front of the pond, took me 45 min. to find 2 arrows... but the water was nice,lol,lol
They don't call me Arrow Hunter for nothing.
Like Grant, I'm fanatical about finding the lost ones, and it drives me crazy until I do.
The kid's metal detector spends much more time in my hands, then in their hands.
Don't LOSE too many , but I sure do BREAK a lot, as above, taking "fun" shots in the woods while stumping.
ChuckC
One of the reasons I don't golf is that I cannot stand looking for things. My impression of golf is you wack then ball, then go look for it, repeat. Just hate it. I guess sort of the opposite of Grant Young that way.
So I am in the camp that it is just an arrow - they make more. Sure I look some, but not long.
Having said that I seem to run in streaks where I don't lose any, then I lose a bunch in short time. Now that I say that, I am due. Dang.
Regards to breaking, I used to break a lot until I switched to carbon arrows (that is the reason I swtched).
-Dave
I use to loose more than now. I would pay my kids a buck for any arrow they could find.I have looked for an hour or so before giving up.Go in the house and when I came back out it was right there..With my dog still chewing on it :banghead:
Ever notice the guys ata shoot that won't look for their arrows? Like they are too embarrassed to show that they missed!
I don't nomally lose any, not because i never miss but i just find the arrows because they are fletched very bightly!
there was an expirenced arche who wins our 3D shoots sometimes who lost an entire dozen CX Heritage arrows in one 3D shoot! :scared:
Seem to break more than I loose, but usually between broken arrows and quiver can't count a dozen. Must be an arrow thief on the loose. ;)
Steve
I lost my first arrow a couple months ago at JC's shoot. The next day i was shooting at my target,the arrow went strait over the top and I never saw it again.
Heh - I live on a rock and I've never lost an arrow but I broke so many I had to learn how to make my own!
In the back yard no, but at 3-D shoots.The earth swallows them up. I have seen where they hit, walk to get them and they are gone. Like magic, no where to be found. Even with burms behind. Gone, disappeared, vanished. The earth swallowed it. Had to have.
grrrr.... i was thinking of starting a thread about the kids loosing arrows a while back, but figured i was blessed that they were shooting their bows, why complain about that ..... 'CEPT they don't look for them ! they don't pay for them ! and I grabbed my gear last night to discover THEY are all out of arrows & started to loose mine too.
I don't need the help, I was getting around to loosing them myself, time permitting, and have enough arrows to look for already that are playing hide & seek right behind the backstop somewhere.
whoever thought up camo arrows was definitely a better shot than me.
Them things will slide right under bermuda,I sometims find them by walking barefoot.Many times I have been walking in the yard and stopped in my tracks feeling somthing under my foot resembling an arrow.POOF!out of the ground comes an arrow. :cool:
Ever notice how the old beat up arrows with half the fletching frayed and gone that you'd like to see disapear never do?! I have one that I've constantly used on risky shots and its like a bad penny, it keeps turning up! But the nice arrows? I figure on loosing or breaking at least one any given time I shoot 3D.
I rather break an arrow than loose one.
At my club shoot last Sat I lost my first Arrow Dynamics Arrow, that hurts....
It`s the wood gnomes. If you miss they run in and steal them. They are very fast.
No, I am good at finding them. :)
I break em more than loose em
I Am not much of a target type of guy. I like to stump shoot and such, so I tend to break more than I lose. I shoot judos as well so they are pretty tough to lose. I am footing my carbons now, so i hope not to break as many either. Shawn
Heck yes, I lose so many I didn't have more than two or three arrows that worked at one time. Not until I gave in and sat down to make about 8 or so of them.
Sean
Yes, I lose a bunch. I shoot at alot of stupid stuff. I live in a subdivison, but at the end of our street is a field, Just last week I had a neighbor throw up a flat basket ball and I shot at it not once but twice. Missed both times. I was shooting down toward the field, thought not problem, I should be able to find the arrows sticking up in the ground. Went down to find the grass chest high in some places, I found one arrow, Been planning on going back down to look for the other, On saturday I noticed the farmer cutting the field. I guess that second arrow made its way into a round bale.
Scott
I was always taught that if an arrow goes a stray, it was OK, as Fred, or some other bowhunter of times gone by would find it and put it to good use.
>>>>Tim------->
pput duck scent on your fletching and when lost, then send the lab looking for them--good for all conceerned. the labrador will like it