So where do they go?

Roverrich · March 30, 2013, 08:05:00 PM

Hi gang, just wondering your thoughts. Got back from spring break with the kids and had to so a little stumping in the front yard. Now, I was shooting at a favorite target and aimed a tad low in front of the target in my grass. No problem right? WRONG! I cannot for the life of me (or my son) find the darn arrow. I shot into the grass as a low angle and thought for sure the arrow would be easy to find. No dice, it must have burrowed beneath my sod or been abducted by aliens! Anyone else have this happen? Got me to thinking where was the strangest place you have found your "lost" arrows?

Happy Easter to all!

macbow · March 30, 2013, 08:15:00 PM

Grass is the worst unless maybe snow.
At least with snow you can usually find them later.

March 30, 2013, 08:28:00 PM

Grass swallows them up, for sure!

Bisch

Roverrich · March 30, 2013, 08:41:00 PM

Any suggestions to find one? I had my son crawling on all four looking.

Keefer · March 30, 2013, 08:47:00 PM

Metal detector or use a rake very softly

MCNSC · March 30, 2013, 08:50:00 PM

I shot a deer 3 years ago it ran off with the arrow still in it but the arrow had came out and was not in the deer when I recovered the deer. I looked that day and several other days along the trail the deer took to find the arrow with no luck. Last year in scouting before the season I was scouting in the same area, had not even thought about that being the area the shot deer had run through. Anyway I heard and then saw some deer get up and run off so I stopped to watch them. Before moving I happened to look down and there was my arrow mostly burried in the leaves. My first thought was someone lost an arrow, then I remembered that was where the deer I had shot the year before. If those deer had not ran off exactly when they did causing me to stop exactly where I did I would probably never found that arrow.

bretto · March 30, 2013, 08:50:00 PM

Metal detector!!! Even the cheapest model You can find will work.

Unless Your shooting Cane arrows with Horn nocks and Bone points. LOL

bretto

monsterbuck · March 30, 2013, 08:53:00 PM

Had the same thing happen to me the other day Roverrich. Actually I went back out today to see if I could them, no luck. Guess they end up in the same place as the socks from the laundry dryer.LOL. God bless.

ron w · March 30, 2013, 09:01:00 PM

The arrow Gnomes collect them to build fences around their homes.....helps keep the trolls away......

Andy Cooper · March 30, 2013, 09:06:00 PM

I once found an arrow that buried in some tall grass even with a judo point on it...three years later.

magnus · March 30, 2013, 09:20:00 PM

Walk the area barefoot. Crossing the direction of the shot. Move about a foot and repeat. You'll feel it underfoot. DO NOT! Do this with broad head arrows.

Drewster · March 30, 2013, 09:24:00 PM

Get a large nail and drill a hole in the end of an old rake or broom handle and tap and/or expoxy the nail in. Then bend the nail into a right angle hook. You can gently pull the nail through the grass until you hook the arrow. Those buggers can really hide under the sod. I usually use Ace hex head blunts when shooting in the yard.....helps a BUNCH. Good luck!

xtrema312 · March 30, 2013, 09:47:00 PM

If you shot carbon just take one with a field tip and run it through the grass perpendicular to the line of arrow flight. Make sure to cover a good width so you don't miss it. Do passes close enough that you don't skip it. About two foot apart. Run the shaft down to the roots our lower if the dirt is loose. Lift up in the shaft often as you work. Don't give up. They can skid a lot farther than you think and even track off to the side sometimes. You can do this with wood our aluminum also but be a lot more careful.

I have one of those ace arrow finders also. Works well for some cover like leafs, but not as well as a field tip arrow in thick grass.

Archie · March 30, 2013, 10:06:00 PM

Barefoot is the way to do it. Once someone from TradGang suggested that to me, I have never lost an arrow to the grass (in my backyard) again.

Red Beastmaster · March 30, 2013, 10:14:00 PM

I sucked one up with the lawn mower one time. I was sorry I chopped it up but glad I finally found the SOB!

Barry Rowland · March 30, 2013, 10:15:00 PM

Barefoot has worked for me, but I'm still amazed how they just disappear off the face of the earth, and are bright colors to boot!!

xtrema312 · March 30, 2013, 10:21:00 PM

I love to shot around the yard. leaves, tennis balls and dandelions make great random targets.I use blunts like hammer heads, vpa sgt's or a judo. If I don't use them I spend most of the time looking for arrows in the grass.

I lost an arrow out to the farm shooting this winter out by the barn. we are out this weekend and the snow is off so I figured it would be east to find that arrow. I looked all over down range of where it hit and skidded on the frozen ground. No luck. I went all over shooting and them back to the barns to shoot back and forth up and down a little hill side. After about an hour of this I stopped to pick up arrows and looked up to see my lost arrow partly proped up against a tree in the mowed area where I had been shooting and walking past over and over. In my defense I must say the feathers on that one are not very bright and it was a long way off to the side of where it first hit the ground weeks ago.

Stump73 · March 30, 2013, 10:32:00 PM

Barefoot method works for me. I'm the one that my buddies get to find there arrows in the grass.

Stumpkiller · March 30, 2013, 10:35:00 PM

QuoteOriginally posted by bretto:
Metal detector!!! Even the cheapest model You can find will work.

Unless Your shooting Cane arrows with Horn nocks and Bone points. LOL

bretto

Steel points read "09" on my Fisher F-75. ;-)

I keep a slightly bent aluminum shaft in my stumping quiver. Dragging it over grass/sod/leaves in rows every 6" will often give the telltail "plink" of a wood shaft.

Usually I find them closer than expected rather than far behind the target.

Ajooter · March 30, 2013, 11:19:00 PM

I like when you find a different arrow that you had forgot all about losing while looking for the arrow you just lost. So long ago the steel tip is all crusty with rust. This didn't happen to me last week or anything just sayin....