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Main Boards => PowWow => Topic started by: Bel007 on August 22, 2011, 11:13:00 AM
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So you have taken your game with a new arrow & broadhead. Now what? Do you re-use them? Do you retire them to a keepsake wall?
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I hang the damaged ones under a plaque with a pic of my first kill.If not damaged I reuse.Kip
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re use
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If damaged I keep them, but most of the time I get a pass through so I refletch the arrow after cleaning it, and resharpen the head and reuse it.
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Unless it's a once in a lifetime hunt where keeping the arrow with my trophy would add to my memorabilia would add to it's worth to me I clean & resharpen the heads & take em back out to hunt the next time out.
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So far i have gone the retire them route. I have shot one deer and retired the arrow in good condition. 5 years later you still can see the blood on the arrow and broadhead.
Schafer
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I have a buck on the wall with my "troghy" arrows on his antlers, if the arrow killed a deer or is a robing hood, that is where they end up.
Bob.
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I killed three with one cedar and woodsman before it finally broke when the deer landed on it. I re use them.
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For you new guys save the first one,you won't regret it.Still have my first one from the late 1960s.Well part of it,5" wood shaft Bear broadhead.
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Re-use if the arrow is not damaged. Re-sharpen the broadhead if the broadhead tip is not bent.
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I saved my first one and the one I killed my biggest buck with and first bow kill that went down in sight. I will keep ones like that. Otherwise they are resharpened and back in the quiver. I am going to start taking a dremel to the broadheads and make a notch everytime I make a kill with it. Hopefully years down the road I will have 1 broadhead with tally marks all over it. :)
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Use them over & over.
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I keep using them.The more I kill with a given arrow,the more"mojo" it seems to have.
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Absolutely reuse them!Why give up on a well trained arrow? :dunno:
Bill
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I discard them if not reusable.
I wish I had kept some of the arrows from the past; my first deer and another one I used to shoot an antelope doe, mulie buck (both in WY), 2 white-tail deer(Indiana) and then broke it on an Ontario bear the following spring.
Around 1971 I bought a Bear B Mag from an elderly fellow who operated out of his house. I believe the town was "Redlands (? I don't think I got the town name right, near Muncie?), Indiana". He had a box full of Bear Razorheads that had each killed a white-tail deer. Those were the days when very few bowhunters killed a deer. I think the success rate around then was 3%. The deer herd was estimated at only 45,000 animals.
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I will reuse them unless its a special hunt..... or unique animal taken..
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For sure, i always re use unless broken. 3 kills with the same arrow and broadhead was my best, when i shot training wheels.
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Clean them up. Check for cracks. Load up with a new point/broadhead. Shoot again.
Bisch
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Until I run out of room I will save them, at least all of them but my pig arrows as those are specialty arrows that I like to re-use. Everything else is on my bow rack at home cleaned up with the date, yardage, and animal killed with it. I have a bent broadhead on there from my 5 yard buck miss last year as well.
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Tough, but good question. I like the thought of retireing them to think of the memory each time you see it, but re-using it for another memory is sweet too....I chose retire so I can keep it for future stories and memories.
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killed my first and second deer with the same broadhead, shaft, and fletching. arrow didn't make it through squirl season but i still got the bh. i'll hang on to that one....
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I like to reuse them. Like to see how many a single head will put down.
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only shot two animals so far, both with my compound. the first one I kept and the second I re-used.
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I only use my arrow more then ounce if I use it for small game. Otherwise, it goes into retirement.
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I retire some of them. The special ones, like my caribou and mountain lion, or the deer I took hunting with my son. Otherwise if they aren't broken I will reuse some of them. I took 2 whitetail bucks and a Texas hog with the same cedar arrow years ago.
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Used to re-use them, now I just hang'em on the wall, after I clean'em up.
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I use the broadhead again,but not the arrow.
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Use it until it's too damaged to use.
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I get all I can out of one. All my broke ones go in a special box uncleaned.
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Unless damaged I reuse, it already knows what to do.
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I will usually reuse the broadhead, shaft, and all after it goes through an animal if it's not broken. Old broadheads I don't use on big game will be put to use pestering small game. Broadheads that are totally over the hill go into a box. That box is full of memories!
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reuse, they have good mojo on them! :thumbsup:
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I killed a white tail buck, 2 javies, a turkey and 2 hogs with the same woodsman. The last hog tweeked one blade a little so I retired it. They are junk!
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Re-use fer me!
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Use till they fall apart
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If there broke I write the date and kill on them and put them in "the pile". If not wash em up and send them through another critter !
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I'm cheap I use them until they just can't be used anymore. I have a bear razorhead I call lucky it's been through 7 white tails! It will be in my quiver again this fall.
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I clean the shaft up, resharpen the broadhead and back to the quiver it goes....
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Reuse them if I can. Discard anything not reusable. No regrets.
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I keep running them till the wheels fall off!
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Clean, resharpen, shoot again, repeat.....
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I put my kill arrows in old backquiver and write the date and were at , on a tape place on arrow .
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I have over 40 arrows that have completed their job on bigame and are in the antlers of my 1st deer. They tell a story of archery history- wood to alum and now carbon. Bear heads, alot of Snuffers and now mostly Stingers. Been a long and intersting ride. Wouldn't throw them away for nothin!
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Have taken four deer with the the same arrow and head... finally broke it...
Arrowed a skunk last night and it wasn't to pleasant... may not be re-using that arrow again ... haven't gotten the nerve yet to retrieve it...even this morning the area was a quarentined zone.
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I do write the date and animal taken in sharpie on the wrap. That becomes the "go to" arrow since it has passed it's flight training...
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If usuable, than I re-use them. I once killed 7 deer with the same arrow and 3 different broadheads. Shawn
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I have retired a few arrows over the years, usually from the first one of a certain species I've shot. But for the most part, I clean and reuse them.
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Use im till they break
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My son killed a deer, bear and turkey with the same arrow and broadhead in the same year. trifecta at its best.
My dad passed away last month and I am fortunate enough to have all of his archery equipment. He had three arrow boxes of arrows that had killed deer, bear and turkeys. Dad was not much of a numbers guy and never really told us how many animals he had taken over the years.
I did not want three boxes of arrows with blood and guts in the basement so I removed all the broadheads, tossed the bent and broken arrows and cleaned up the straight ones.
I counted his kills and he had 98. I ordered special arrow wraps from Onestringer to honor my father and I am refletching the good arrows with his feathers, nocks and broadheads ( that he used to kill deer with already)and am going to pass them out to family and friends Sept 30.
I have to say the Onestringer did an OUSTANDING job helping me design the arrowraps to honor my dad.
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Nice idea Jon. Sorry about your father's passing.
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I definitely reuse them. Arrows cost way too much to retire them if they're usable.
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Normally, I clean and re-sharpen the broad head, clean shaft, and feathers. Then I steam the feathers and put the arrow back in the quiver..
However, while hunting Black Bear with Homer Ocean Charters, I was made aware of their Custom.
H.O.C. displays the "Kill Arrows" with the year and archer's name on the arrow, in their charter office. [Strictly your option]
I donated a 1 1/4" 250 gn VPA on a Camo GT5575 [complete with blood and matted feathers].. ;) Hopefully some day I'll be able to go back and see it and re-live that hunt. :pray:
Gene
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I have one arrow I retired, it killed 11 animals , it has a wensel woodsman on the front and the amazing thing is that it is wood,and it never broke! I wrote a name on it Kills-plenty and put it in my arrow box.Maybe Ill bring it out of retirement when I retire...Tim
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I retire them after they've fulfilled their obligation.
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Unless damaged, clean them up and glue them back on.
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I saved the arrow on my first elk, WT, mulie, bear, wolf, moose and coyote. Now I want to see how many kills I can make with one before I lose/damage it. I'm at six kills with one arrow and a 150 grain silver flame. It'll be leading my first shot this fall.