What do you do, reuse them, put them away as trophies, something else? I have all the arrows that filled tags (that were found), on display in my arrow spot. Most still have the broad heads attached, some are broken shafts with the heads to never be seen again.
What do you guys do?
Bob
I sharpen and reuse the head if its not damaged.
I shoot expensive broadheads and it seems that almost all the deer I shoot get mad at me for shooting them and break my arrow as they run off. I just resharpen and reuse my broadheads!
Bisch
I am just plain tight, I always re-sharpen :bigsmyl:
If I can recover my broadhead I resharpen them and consider that my "lucky" head and put in on my number one arrow shaft. I shoot Magnus Snuffers so it's not terribly difficult to touch up the blades and they are ready to go again. I haven't shot replaceable blade broadheads for years, I always go with the sharpen, resharpen, and resharpen again until there's nothing left.
Some get kept with trophies others get reconditioned.
X2
QuoteOriginally posted by m midd:
I sharpen and reuse the head if its not damaged.
Same here.
Resharpen and reuse!! I did retire 1 broadhead. It is the one I killed my best buck ever. The deer is on a pedestal mount and the arrow is below the deer. It is laying in leaves like it was found.
I can't put a lucky broadhead on the shelf!
I carry the wolverine broadhead in my back quiver pouch that I used to take my first whitetail.
Re-sharpen and re-use, at least that is what I do.
Resharpen and put on the next go to arrow.
I have some that are retired with the arrow from special hunts like my mountain lion and caribou.
Others I just resharpen and go again. I have a cedar arrow in my bow quiver that just killed its 3rd deer last weekend. Same arrow, same zwickey delta
this Magnus I got retired... in the skull of the bobcat it killed.
(http://i952.photobucket.com/albums/ae9/johnnyyourmomma/skull.jpg) (http://s952.photobucket.com/user/johnnyyourmomma/media/skull.jpg.html)
QuoteOriginally posted by Bisch:
I shoot expensive broadheads and it seems that almost all the deer I shoot get mad at me for shooting them and break my arrow as they run off. I just resharpen and reuse my broadheads!
Bisch
Same here.
Usually reuse them. I do have a few over my workbench for momentos of the different style broadheads I have used. These are all on broken shafts that have been through whitetail.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v169/Stumpkiller/Bowhunting/DSCN0667.jpg)
I leave them on the bloody and sometimes broken shaft and throw them on a shelf in my shed.
If its found, sharpen and reuse but it goes in the last position of my quiver to give the others thier turn lol
Sharpen and reuse...
I'll let you know after I harvest my first deer! :bigsmyl:
I saved the 1st. Keep it in my bow rack, been resharpening the rest.
Cool trophy with the bobcat skull!
Just washed some pass through arrows and resharpened last night. I'm ready to go again on Saturday...
QuoteOriginally posted by D.J. Carr:
I can't put a lucky broadhead on the shelf!
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Shoot, re-sharpen, re-use unless something dramatic occurs.
All of my broadheads and most of my arrows get reused. I shoot 60# with 600-650 grain arrows so for deer and even pretty large hogs I always seem to get a pass through or if I don't pass completely through the arrow is just hanging in the skin of the exit side and gets knocked out when the animal runs by brush. I just refletch the arrow and touch up the head and it goes back in the quiver.
I like to recondition the used arrow right away, and put it back in the quiver in the "1st" position! I usually am pretty fussy about that #1 arrow. I re-fletch it, shoot it a few times then sharpen that broad head so it will pop hair. Nothing like knowing that arrow has been proven.
I never been able to get more than 3 on one arrow. I can remember one or two lucky arrows that I ruined by missing or having it pass through the target while testing it after a re-fletch.
I currently have a Gold Tip 75/95 with a 175 gr 3 blade VPA in the quiver that has been through 2 deer. The broadhead had to be filed a good bit the last time because it hit a rock in the dirt after passing through the deer. So I'm sitting in the tree... wondering if it is fractionally smaller than it was?
Tedd
Hum I guess I'm one of the few that keeps everyone. I leave them just the way I pick them up after I shot one. I even put up the one's I have shot rabbits with. As far as deer go I try and attach the tags to the arrow that way I know which arrow got which deer.