Lost arrows

[Echatham]

would rather break them than lose them. at least then i know what happened. even when i break them though, i try to find all the pieces!  at least save the point.

[paoliguy]

I made up 6 new arrows for my son. He and his buddy lost the first one on the very first shot. After about 30 minutes of searching they came back to the house with 3 found arrows, none of which was the one they just lost. Guess we'll consider that one seed for the next big search.

[Thumper Dunker]

If you never lose them or break them your not having any fun. - Ground squirrel hunter. I will hunt for them for weeks also.

[snag]

Too that usually isn't the case on real elk Elknutz!

[lpcjon2]

Teach a kid(ages 14 to 18) to shoot and you will learn to live with lost arrows. They think cause they are wood they literally grow on trees. Oh and they didnt buy them either.

[jkm97]

Originally posted by NBK:
Ages from now archeologists will excavate the swamp behind my backstop and write of what must have been an archery battle of epic proportions.

Lol, the pasture behind my house too.

[dagwood64]

I bought a metal detector to find mine. Even with woodies you still have the metal tip.  

[Bowwild]

Funny how easy they are to find after one set of seasons have erased the feathers.

[Dave Worden]

I don't have much problem with losing an arrow.  Losing the field points, however, is a totally different situation.  I shoot some tips that no one makes any longer.  A local sporting goods store was going out of business and I bought all they had for a nickel each.  Now I'll search for hours to find that 5 cent point!  I can replace shafts.  I can't replace the points.

[Orion]

Here's a lost arrow found story that might be a little hard to believe.

A couple of years ago, I lost a woody behind a target.  One year later, at the same shoot, we were looking for my brother's arrow behind the same target, and danged if we didn't find my arrow from the year before.  I know it was mine because of the distinctive constrution and fletching and the fact that I write the arrow spine and weight between the fletching on all my arrows.

The amazing thing was that the arrow looked like I had just pulled it from my quiver.  Finish hadn't started rotting away and the feathers weren't matted and falling off, but looked as fresh as the day I put them on the arrow.

Actually, wasn't too hard to figure out what happened.  Someone likely found my arrow the same weekend, if not the same day I lost it, and deposited it in the club's lost arrow bin.  This is a club I only visit once a year for its 3-D shoot.  The subsequent year, someone must have pulled it out of the lost arrow bin and shot it, just happening to lose it at the same target I did a year earlier.

It's also possible that the person who found it just held onto it for a year.  If so, he didn't shoot it much, because the arrow was still in almost new condition.

Regardless, if my brother hadn't missed that target on year two, we would never have found/known about that arrow.

How's that for coincidence.  And no, my brother wasn't playing a trick on me.

[reddogge]

I have a reputation among my shooting buddies that I despise loosing an arrow.

This year we found a buddie's arrow behind a target that his group had shot earlier in the day and that arrow got a lot of "airtime" between when we found it and when I gave it back to him. We all shot it. The rational was "It was lost and given up. If it makes it back all the better."

[tkytrac]

What is so cool is that when Trad Archers find an arrow they always return it to the lost arrow bucket. This is a phenomenon that is hard for new comers to imagine. But its a great thing.

I hate to lose an arrow. So I say the best thing to do is not miss. Unfortunately the saying and my shooting ability doesn't always match up.
This year at Compton I lost an arrow. Shot over the back on a deer on the Red Course. It landed in some long grass and I looked for it 3 different times and never found it. I did find several other arrows however, and turned them in.

I checked those buckets: One w/ woodies, one w/ aluminum, one w/ carbon, daily. Do you know it took those lazy buggers 3 days to find my lost arrow! Can you believe it!! LOL