have you ever retired a piece of equipment after shooting an animal with it?

[ozy clint]

i have a broadhead and half a shaft that i killed a scrub bull with. it now resides on a wooden shield with the horns, never to fly again.

ever kept anything in a similar manner?

 

[Kingwouldbe]

Just a few    
 

[ozy clint]

okay king, you didn't have to embarass me like that.            

i normally shoot arrows till they are broken. thats alot of money sitting there, unless the front is broken of them.

[Shinken]

What now seems a loooooonnnnnnggggg time ago I shot my *first* archery mule deer doe just west of P-burg, MT close to the headwaters of Rock Creek with a 65# Robertson Stykbow launching an original Rothaar Snuffer glued on a swaged 29" 2219 Gamegetter II four fletched with 4" blue and yellow fletching and a fluorescent green nock.

I retired that arrow/BH then and still have it as a reminder of that defining moment in time....

Shoot straight, Shinken

[jrchambers]

i had one once from my first bear then i took it hunting and missed and lost it.  shoulda kept it out of the quiver, it had done allthe killing it was gunna.

[Curveman]

I have saved the arrows on first deer, first hog, first bear....

[chessieboy]

My first self bow was a hickory I made. Never even got a finish or leather grip on it.  Made it, shot it, killed a doe with it, retired it!

[pebowbender]

I still have the arrow from my first bow kill(wt doe)and my first(and only)P&Y kill(antelope). Both are signed and dated with location to preserve the memory.
I also have a 1903-A3 30-06 Springfield that my Grandfather sporterized after WWII. I took it and him hunting when I got it in the early '80s. Took a deer with it that he unknowingly spooked in my direction. Excellent moment and a memory that will last me a life time. Haven't hunted with that rifle since.

[Jack Denbow]

Every arrow I kill something with. It just gives a reason to make more arrows and more arrows and more arrows........
   
Jack

[Butts]

I still have all my my equiptment that I have started with, with the exception of the arrows I have lost or broken.

I am still waiting for my first harvest!! Four years and counting!

Chris

[Landshark160]

Not unless it's broken or bent.  Can't afford to!

[tippit]

These two hang in my family room...never to be shot again     Both harvested nice black bears.

My own osage selfbow with Woody Blackwell's stone point and Eric Ackerman's beautifully painted hickory selfbow with my tippit forged head...Doc

 

 

[Littlefeather]

Hey Doc, I wanna shoot a bear with your Osage bow!!! Or a hog!    

Everyone needs an archery collection. Nice mount btw. CK

[sswv]

I retire every broadhead after it makes a kill. I've did this since the very first one MANY years ago resulting in well over a hundred 'once used' broadheads saved in two shoe boxes, one form the wheel days and another for traditional.

   

[Ia Hawkeye]

Retire all my big game kill arrows and broadheads.

[Jason R. Wesbrock]

Curtis,

If you retired an arrow every time you killed something, you'd have to build a bigger storage barn.  

[Plumber]

I retire all my "frist" kill arrows.

[Wiley Coyote]

I usually retire killer arrows.  

[Irish]

Nope.  Wash the blood off and shoot them until I loose them or break them.   The five arrows hanging on the wall in the family room have never, or will never be shot by me.

[GRINCH]

I would have retired the arrow I shot that pesky armadillo with but he broke in three pieces when he did his back flip.