What do you do with your kill arrows/

[Seeking Trad Deer]

I've been staring at a legacy shaft from a deer kill last year.  It is still covered in dried blood on the shaft and feathers.  I was wondering what you guys do with these arrows if you decide to retire them.  Clean them up...let them as is or something else.  

[Brad_Gentry]

I don't believe in retiring them. If they're still usable, I clean 'em up, re-sharpen the broadhead, and throw 'em back in the quiver. The way I look at it, that arrows got mojo now... don't want to waste it by hanging it on a wall!  

[hunt it]

I'm with Brad on this one. Mo MOJO the better!

[Golden Hawk]

I'm with Brad on this one. No sense in wasting an arrow that already knows it's way home!

[Izzy]

Ive also got a special 2018 legacy fromlast years deer.I wont target shoot with it but I will hunt with it.Like Brad said its got mojo.

[fireman_3311]

Brad and I think alike as well...wash em off, sharpen em up, and kill again!!! Took 3 with the same arrow last year...then lost it...LOL (yea, I missed...lol)

[paleFace]

most of the time i rinse the shafts off, re sharpen the head and stick them back in the quiver. them there arrows have some serious mojo  
if you decide to retire one, write the date and all the specifics on the arrow so you can remember 10 years from now which critter goes with which arrow.

[oldgriz]

I have to agree with all the above about the magic remaining in an arrow that has killed game..
I only have one little problem.... what about the arrows (or parts thereof) that killed trees or rocks instead of what I was aiming at... what do we do with those...        

[Seeking Trad Deer]

I like the idea of writing the hunt info on the arrow.  Kinda a legacy for the kids when I'm gone.

[Steve P]

oldgriz, as for those rock/tree arrows, do you think that is how that little rhyme came about?

"I shot an arrow in the air......"    


Steve

[Coon007]

broken ones on the wall good one back to work

[Charlie Lamb]

I've got a bunch I've saved over the years...including the arrows from my first and second deer. They mean a lot to me these days.

At one point I had a set of 2219 XX75's that I kept putting up on the wall as each one took game. As I came to my last bowquiver full of that set I realized most of the old ones were in great shape except for the dried blood and gore.

The set went on to take many more animals each. Do what grabs ya!!      

[James Wrenn]

I keep using them untill I use them up.    Since I started shooting carbons I often kill several deer with the same arrow.Hogs do tend to use them up much faster.  :D

[Long Bow]

I go for the MOJO...I need all the help I can get!

Just put a hash mark on it and send it on its way  

[sswv]

I always re-use the arrow if possible but I've kept my 'kill broadheads' ever since the first one. However, the bow kill mounts in my house have the arrow with broadhead attached lying in the racks. HONESTLY, I have a shoe box full of 'kill' broadheads I've saved over the years. I might make a display board for them someday. But, I agree with Charlie "Do what grabs ya".

[Bard1]

If it's usable, I'll use it again, if not, well just this week I took the fletched side of the broken shaft and attached it to a home made picture frame.  Of course the picture is of the animal I used that arrow to kill. =)

Derek

[VinnieB]

i wish i could save the arrows i shot through deer, but i never get pass throughs and my aluminums always seem to have some kind of a slight bend in it. i don't quite have the courage to shoot them again since 3 years ago i had a arrow break in half just past the feathers and hit me in the forearm. maybe someday i'll give it a shot.

[JC]

Rinse and repeat as many times as possible.

[stabow]

I retire mine. It's like turning on a movie projector when I pick one up, I can see every thing that happen on that hunt........stabow

[Jason R. Wesbrock]

Most of them I clean up and re-use, but a few have been retired over the years. The arrows that took my first deer, elk, hog and moose will probably never hunt again.