I dunno, I've never lost an arrow:)

Maybe it skipped up off the ground instead of getting buried in the grass. I've had that happen, and found it further up embedded into a tree. The grass does really suck them up though.

QuoteOriginally posted by magnus:
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.

The very first archery range I ever went to back in the 70's was just a large grass field that people could bring their targets to and shoot.  Well after we were done and the was no on around. My dad would tell my brother and I to take our shoes off and walk across the grass we always found bunches of them. This way

QuoteOriginally posted by Red Beastmaster:
I sucked one up with the lawn mower one time. I was sorry I chopped it up but glad I finally found the SOB!

Lol.

I'm gonna have to try that barefoot thing. I've got an arrow in my backyard/edge of the woods I haven't been able to find yet, and I watched it hit the ground when I missed and skip but I guess I didn't see where it stopped because I went straight out to go get it and never found it and I've searched up and down back and forth scraping leaves and grass for hours lol. I hate losing arrows, its like throwing away $8.

I use our three prong cultivator hoe to rake them out.  I rake across the direction of the arrow.  Have tried to train my lab to sniff them out for me but no luck there yet.  I'm sure someone better at training dogs than me could though.

I have a Beautiful little Lab.retriever that finds my errant arrows. It doesn't take long to train a dog to find them. So far she has found them all,even in my wheat field.Incredible noses on these critters.

QuoteOriginally posted by Ajooter:
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....    

Sounds like you made the same mistake twice     Of course I have never done that   :rolleyes:  

advice.... don't shoot into hard snow banks, seems you still get great penetration.    

I consider myself a true conservationist when I release one of my woodies back into the wild.

God bless,Mudd

They go into a time warp. They are gone for a few years, and then bam, you find them clear as day with the fletching gone except for the quill.

Found one last week just like that.

QuoteOriginally posted by Mudd:
I consider myself a true conservationist when I release one of my woodies back into the wild.

God bless,Mudd

         


Lost one just yesterday....I know exactly where it is though but it's still LOST.

Give it several months and they fester like a sliver  

QuoteOriginally posted by Red Beastmaster:
I sucked one up with the lawn mower one time. I was sorry I chopped it up but glad I finally found the SOB!

LOL!

Last spring turkey season, I took a shot on a bird that ducked and bolted. Arrow missed, skipped off in the dirt and grass and I heard it ricochet off a couple of trees on its way through the woods. Went looking for it to no avail. Exactly one week later, hunting in the same spot, I decided why not go look again. About 100 yards from where the arrow was shot, still nothing, until I turned around to check the angle. There at eye level stuck in a tree at a 90 degree angle to the direction it came from, was my arrow. Go figure.

It's the same group of "aliens" that hang around golf courses. They like to reach up out of the water and grap your golf ball out of mid air. In my area they seem to prefer the little water holes on the par 3 holes the best.

I use an old broom handle with a coat hook attached at the end. I can find most of them with that. But still some get a way. I don't think I could find them with a plow and a tractor. Gary

Every once in a while you must send a arrow to the arrow Gods. If not they get mad and cause you to lose or break many arrows at one time which causes the archer to wonder what happened. This leads to second guessing your shooting and your equipment which can lead to money being spent. This leads you........... I think you get the idea.

QuoteOriginally posted by Bowwild:
They go into a time warp. They are gone for a few years, and then bam, you find them clear as day with the fletching gone except for the quill.

LOL! Ya mean like this? Found this one the other day,lost it behind my target about a year ago.

I missed a turkey last year.I was telling my buddy about it and said I didn't really mind the miss(hit my limb on a branch),but was bummed about losing a brand new arrow and broadhead. He gave me his metal detector to try out. I went back and found the arrow in about 30 seconds. Knee high pasture grass,without the detector I'd probably still be looking for it.

Thats what a dog is for, finding lost arrows. I also use a four prong rake to find them . But a dog can sniff them out when your not sure where they are at.  But I never miss.  :rolleyes:

I figure all my lost arrows are somewhere near all my lost socks and some car keys.

A metal detecter will pay for itself just finding arrows. I took mine to a field archery course and found a bundle of arrows in just a couple of hours.