Bloody Arrows & Broadheads - Re-use them?

Bel007 · August 22, 2011, 11:13:00 AM

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?

Kip · August 22, 2011, 11:17:00 AM

I hang the damaged ones under a plaque with a pic of my first kill.If not damaged I reuse.Kip

rolltidehunter · August 22, 2011, 11:17:00 AM

re use

JamesKerr · August 22, 2011, 11:21:00 AM

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.

Eugene Slagle · August 22, 2011, 11:25:00 AM

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.

Schafer · August 22, 2011, 11:26:00 AM

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

Bob B. · August 22, 2011, 11:27:00 AM

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.

varmint101 · August 22, 2011, 11:42:00 AM

I killed three with one cedar and woodsman before it finally broke when the deer landed on it. I re use them.

3arrows · August 22, 2011, 12:02:00 PM

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.

Night Wing · August 22, 2011, 12:37:00 PM

Re-use if the arrow is not damaged. Re-sharpen the broadhead if the broadhead tip is not bent.

KodiakMag · August 22, 2011, 12:40:00 PM

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.

straitera · August 22, 2011, 12:43:00 PM

Use them over & over.

Huntingnut · August 22, 2011, 12:48:00 PM

I keep using them.The more I kill with a given arrow,the more"mojo" it seems to have.

zipper bowss · August 22, 2011, 02:13:00 PM

Absolutely reuse them!Why give up on a well trained arrow?

Bill

Bowwild · August 22, 2011, 02:31:00 PM

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.

dave19113 · August 22, 2011, 02:41:00 PM

I will reuse them unless its a special hunt..... or unique animal taken..

GREATBROWNKNOCKEMDOWN · August 22, 2011, 02:48:00 PM

For sure, i always re use unless broken. 3 kills with the same arrow and broadhead was my best, when i shot training wheels.

August 22, 2011, 03:11:00 PM

Clean them up. Check for cracks. Load up with a new point/broadhead. Shoot again.

Bisch

toehead · August 22, 2011, 03:21:00 PM

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.

Over&Under · August 22, 2011, 04:27:00 PM

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.