After the shot

[Shakes.602]

I just Clean the MUD Off and Restraighten, to Live and Fight Another day!!      

[mongoose]

Hey KentuckyTJ, I would not have thought about dipping in gasoline. Don't that desolve the fletchin glue??

[bolong]

I clean them up and reuse them if they are not damaged. I like to see how many kills I can get out of one.

[Charlie Lamb]

A good washing of fletch and shaft with Dawn and warm water does the trick.
In stead of letting the feathers dry and then steaming them, I dry them with a hair dryer. Brings them back just fine.

[chad graham]

i keep mine the way they are and hang on to them and date them with a sharpie, good times!!

[levibear]

Clean the arrow carefully with warm water contaning a small bit of salt. This to to purify it as it now caries some of the spirit of the animial you took. Then retire it to your quiver.

[Bonebuster]

I wash them in warm water and dish soap, re-sharpened and re-loaded. Training arrows to pass thru the vitals is serious business.

I say we make/beg Bowwild  tell the story.  :D

[J.Williams]

Clean them good,refletch if needed and back in the quiver they go.Only way my arrows get to retire is when they are broken or lost.I've retired a bunch.  

[DV of WI]

I clean and put the date of the kill specs with a sharpie and re-use. I have one that I killed three deer with and the last broke the tip and I re-tapered and then my son shot his first deer with it last year. The tip broke and now it is to short and it has the specs. from my three and my sons first. Very special cedar shaft.

[L. E. Carroll]

I just left the arrow I killed my Keni black bear with, hanging in the Office of Homer Ocean Charters to join the collection they have from other succesful hunts.... I would have liked to bring it home to display with the up-coming rug and skull mount but seemed that it's a tradition up there and who am I to "Buck Tradition".  

[Brian Krebs]

I run them back and forth in water to get all the blood out; and then I spin them. I put them between the palms of my hands; and rub my hands together. That raises the fletch for me and the fletch seems better at returning to its original shape. This works with getting in rain or while rabbit hunting and fletch gets wet in the wet grass or bunny.