What do you do with your old arrows?  A man can only use so many tomato stakes (especially when he doesn't like tomatoes!:-).

Seriously, I have a number of old arrows (various types of wood, fiberglass, aluminum) that for one reason or another were retired (bent, small cracks but not broken, chunks taken out by another arrow, too short a draw length, just really worn out).

I really hate to just throw them away, but you can only keep so many.  Ideas?

RonP

i keep them in a bucket always a use for them every know and then.

all the arrows that have killed something significant i tag with date, animal killed, Bh used, bow used etc

Trail markers? I've used mine for survey stakes, gardening stakes, constructing quivers, decorations,
brag starters, keyboard dusting, bow hangers, and an emergency source of toothpicks, among other things.

I mostly just toss them now. Got tired of looking at them. Still have one 5 gal bucket of odds and end arrows. I hate to do it too.

You mean you're actually supposed to do something with them as opposed to just letting them collect in buckets in the basement?

Isn't that the reason you have kids?  Old furniture, computers, silverware, rugs, cars, and yes, even arrows always seem to find a new home.  And now that my kids are grown and not so much in need of my castoffs, they are raising a good crop of grandkids who will hopefully want my old arrows in the future.

I'm sending boxes to Afghanistan for the troops-along with a fletching jig and other things.  Those guys need a relaese......
Talk to the local Army guys-or when I get my contacts set, I'll let you all know.

look for them...

Flu Flu's

A few uses around the house and garden, but I mostly use em as stumpers until I break or loose them.

I am bringing a few to BQIII to shoot at the target across the lake about 200 yards away so most will end up in a Quebec lake a fitting place to go I suppose.Kip

I loose all mine!

I would be willing to clean them up for our Order of the Arrow ceremonies for the Boy Scouts. They light the tips on fire and shoot them into the lake when you are inducted into the organization.I paint them up and fletch them with turkey feathers. As long as they are shootable, (safe)I can use them.  

I shoot alum. so I keep the inserts,bushings and nocks and then recycle them.

You would not want alums floating around in lakes would you?

If wood and long enough to launch they may get their final flight.  If not they still smell good (cedar) while setting in my shop.

Aluminum and carbon get made into wind chimes.

If they are too far gone, I take the hand plane to em' and make very nice smellin', very dry fire starter, which I put into recycled perscription bottles, to carry in my back pack. It sure makes the shop smell nice too.

If broken too short they get launched toward the "bone pile",(a rock outcropping in the middle of my stumping woods). If almost too short they get a .38 casing and turn into chipmunk arrows.

KSdan We do go and get the arrows out of the lake. We go through a lot of them so we try and reuse them if possible.