Need some suggestions for displayingkill arrows. Have a new man room and looking for cool ideas. Thanks. BILL
I just have a crock in the corner near my bow rack and all the kill arrows go into it.
D.P.
My kill arrows get the broadhead touched up and then they are displayed in my quiver. :D No point in quitting on a trained arrow.
Bill
I do the same, Bill. Those arrows that break (I shoot cedar) I throw in my kindling box.
I have found every arrow that has killed a deer over the last 35 or so years,40 some arrows are nested in a small set of antlers in my basement.
They kind of tell a story, wood to fiberglass (just 1) alum.(a bunch),carbon back to wood. Feathers, vanes, string trackers strings tied to Snuffers, Thunderheads, Magnus 2 blade,
SS Snuffers, Stingers, Eclipes. All bring back memoreys of good and changing times.
Here's how I did one of mine
(http://i1207.photobucket.com/albums/bb472/mwgtrad/1330649068.jpg)
Hey Magnus - like that alot - good job
QuoteOriginally posted by zipper bowss:
My kill arrows get the broadhead touched up and then they are displayed in my quiver. :D No point in quitting on a trained arrow.
Bill
Bingo!
The only kill arrow I have saved was the woodie I shot my warthog in Africa with my selfbow. That is the only animal I have taken with a selfbow ever and it was broken by the warthog anyway. I do like waht magnus did with his and might just try that with my warthog.
Bisch
I've killed three hogs with the same Gold Tip(in my quiver). But, I do have several I have retired and are on an empty space on my bow rack.
QuoteOriginally posted by zipper bowss:
My kill arrows get the broadhead touched up and then they are displayed in my quiver. :D No point in quitting on a trained arrow.
Bill
:thumbsup:
QuoteOriginally posted by zipper bowss:
My kill arrows get the broadhead touched up and then they are displayed in my quiver. :D No point in quitting on a trained arrow.
Bill
"A trained arrow"
I like that:)
I built a rack. I took 1.1/2 by 3/8 boards made a frame and slotted them to if the arrow.
QuoteOriginally posted by zipper bowss:
My kill arrows get the broadhead touched up and then they are displayed in my quiver. :D No point in quitting on a trained arrow.
Bill
BINGO!
Oh yea ^ ive never retired an arrow unless it was bent or broke! Especially not the broadheads! they cost WAAYYYY to much for that!
QuoteOriginally posted by zipper bowss:
My kill arrows get the broadhead touched up and then they are displayed in my quiver. :D No point in quitting on a trained arrow.
Bill
X5 or 6
QuoteOriginally posted by StanM:
QuoteOriginally posted by zipper bowss:
My kill arrows get the broadhead touched up and then they are displayed in my quiver. :D No point in quitting on a trained arrow.
Bill
X5 or 6 [/b]
x7
In a pile on the window sill of my shed...
I just clean em up, resharpen the heads and use them again. If they break I throw them away. If they just crack or bend, I shoot them off behind the house.
The only one I have (other than the cleaned up ones from last fall that are still in service) is the one from my first whitetail. It was an interesting combination-Howard Hill Tembo longbow, Easton Autumn Orange 2117 shaft and a Rocky Mountain Razor 4 blade head. The following year I switched to cedar and used them for 20 plus years. Those always got cleaned up and reused or broken.
Usually try to see how many I can take with the same arrow/broadhead before "retiring" it. I do like the looks of that though Magnus. I will have to consider that if I have another one mounted. Thanks!
Thanks guys. That was a special hunt and deer. Arrow broke in the center so I glued it back together and thought it looked good there. If it didn't break I would've reused it.
Sharpen and reuse them again, :archer:
I figure if they done their job well the deserve to be retired. Kinda like me!
I always set the kill arrows aside, hang them on the wall, or just have them laying around .....I never use them again.
mine is hanging on the wall same with my first robinhood even though the only offical robinhood (pushing nock into arrow) was done with a crossbow
I left a 5575 Goldtip with a screw-in 250gn 1 1/4" VPA 3 blade Terminator hanging on the wall of Homer Ocean Charters office... A bit of $$ to leave behind, but it is kind of the"Custom" up there following a successful hunt... I hope to see it again in the future :pray:
Gene
If not bent I put them back in service.I use alum. most of the times and when they get bent or not lost I hang them like this along with my first deer kill pic in my office.I have 3 more hanging since this pic was taken.Kip
(http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p191/Kip_album/318.jpg)
On several past deer leases if an arrow was not repairable we had a Dead Arrow Tree. We would shoot the arrow into a tree about 10 or so feet high. After several years there is normally quite a collection up there.
I only display bent and broken kill arrows and just put them up in the racks in the basement. The arrows don't neccessarily belong to the rack displayed either.
Do you mean like these.
(http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a378/jackdenbow/Killarrows0142.jpg)
Or like these.
(http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a378/jackdenbow/Killarrows0132.jpg)
Jack
I just put them in a bucket in the corner of the man cave. I don't display them as I don't think they mean anything special to anyone else. Once in a while I go over and rummage through them, recollecting memories, and remembering old lies. I reserve this small bit of my life for me alone.
Not having to deal with this particular conundrum, it is, nonetheless, of interest to me. I am coming up with ways to display my collection of unfilled game tags, should I ever find it important to do so. Right now, they are hanging from a hook in the gun room.
Killdeer :rolleyes: :D