How many have you lost finding the first?

[canopyboy]

You know when you shoot and you didn't pay close enough attention to where the miss went?  So you walk back to and try to miss the same shot again so you can better follow the trajectory and narrow  your search?

But then you're down two arrows sometimes and now you can't give up!  In desperation you go back and shoot another arrow or two.  Eventually you find all of them, or you're really ticked at yourself.

Today I lost one shooting from too far away.  Looked.  Went back to the shooting position to visualize.  Looked.  Went back to the shooting position and shot one.  Looked.  Down two arrows.  Went back and shot another.  Still no luck.  Shot a 4th and 5th.  The 5th glanced off a tree and splintered.  4th became lost as well.  Used my last arrow (had 6 with me) and shot from close range where I was sure they had to be.  Watched it enter the dirt/compost and started digging directly after it.  It went a couple feet farther than I expected but at least I found it.  And sure enough, with enough digging I dug up 4 more in the general vicinity.

Final summary:  Started with 6 almost new wood arrows, lost one.  Lost 3 more.  Broke 1.  Found 4.  Wasted an hour.  Went back to the house with 5 serviceable arrows that needed a good bath and one pile of splinters.  Felt good that the lost arrow didn't beat me....    

[huntingarcher]

That's the spirit...

[boznarras]

On the other hand, at our little range, when I search for a miss, sometimes I come back with 2 or 3 arrows that I did not shoot.

[youngarcher1]

That's determination, i just grab a rake and start raking the grass and keep expanding... that's if i feel motivated otherwise i let loose my arrow tracker trained lab!

[straitera]

Losing arrows torques my butt. Still looking for a lost judo buried somewhere in my pasture 2 months ago. How do you bury a judo?

Sometimes grass will snag a judo and hard to believe, but sometimes the grass eats the judo.  I still loose less judo points than htm bouncers or steel blunts.

[Easykeeper]

If I could find every arrow out in my hay field...  

[Killdeer]

It never occurred to you to stop and ask for directions...

Guys.   :rolleyes:
Killdeer

[Bowwild]

Wow, canopyboy!  I thought I was the only one who did this kind of thing!  I even look around to make sure no one's watching when I try this
"replay" trick.  

The cool thing, is you apparently shot one of those famous "fist-sized" groups (except for the tree)!

With another kind of bow I was fooling around at 80 yards last summer--just in case. It was far enough I couldn't tell exactly what was going on. I shot 3 arrows. When I went to the target butt -- all three touching and DESTROYED in the pallet that supports the bottom of my target butt. Again, a nice group but about $30 in "Flatlines" converted to mater-stakes.

[Bowwild]

Killdeer...

We lugheads have been rescued by the Aussie Gal imbedded in our automotive GPS units!  

I no longer have to stop at a 2nd Gas Station to verify the directions the 1st one gave me. And the GPS folks can dump that "u-turn" advice -- I ain't ever going to back track. I just keep driving until the unit provides an alternate route -- both oceans are worth seeing anyhow!