Favorite use for broken carbon/aluminum arrows?

[Davesea]

After reading that spit balls was one of Howard Hills favorite past times, I found that carbon shafts make a great spit ball tube....  Introduced my 7year old to it and she had fun....

How do you re-use your broken shafts?

[TxAg]

keep a few on hand to make sharpening easier.

i like the spitball idea!

[stevewills]

i use bent aluminums for my cherry tomatoes

[Hogdgz]

Use them for my turkey decoys, cause i am always looseing the stakes that came with the decoys.

[WPAtrapper]

Originally posted by Hogdgz:
Use them for my turkey decoys, cause i am always looseing the stakes that came with the decoys.

Same here. I cut old carbons in half then glue a slightly larger diameter piece of aluminum to one end,kind of like a footing but leave about an inch or two of over hang. This way you can break the stake down into two pieces for easy transport.

[lpcjon2]

Take the nock ends and cut them 4" long and drill  holes into a piece of wood and epoxy them in.they make great coat,hat or bow racks. And always keep a short nock end for tying nock points on it makes a great guide. And the aluminum arrow pieces can be made into a wind chime with an old broadhead (dull of course) as the center piece for them to clng against.

[Good Stuff]

When I did some offshore fishing I would take a aluminum shaft around 12" long and file one end sharp with a file. I used it to remove the eyeballs from my Ballyhoo when I preped them for a days fishing offshore

[mrjsl]

threatening the coon dogs!

[Wapiti Chaser]

Foot carbons with alum, made a bow rack with alum and am going to try making turkey call strikers with carbon. Course these are all other peoples broken arrows   :eek:

[don s]

i cut my alums into different lengths and make them into wind chime/sculptures.     don
 

[Night Wing]

They prop up my bag target when the target is on the ground. It makes it easy for me to move the bag target around to different spots like just peaking out from behind a bush.

[zipper bowss]

I have never lost or broken an arrow in my life.           Sorry I just wanted to see if I could get through that with a strait face.NOPE, Could not do it!
Bill

I'm with mrjsl

[hedgetree]

I also use them as tomatoe stakes.

[Kenneth]

I've made a few into short pieces for sharpening b-heads and spin testing b-heads that I glue onto adapters, I just finished making a coat rack for my apartment with a few shorter pieces for the pegs and 2 longer pieces I fletched up and put on the ends; it looks pretty good.  I've also used them as a mag plug for my waterfowling bow  

[Kenneth]

Just thought of this: It seems like a good way to carry a few matches in a short piece by sealing off one end and using a tight fitting nock on the other.

Edit:  The more I think about this I think I'm gonna make one and drill a small hole through the nock so it can be worn as a keychain or necklace.

[polarbear]

If you have enought shaft? Make them up for the KIDS!!

[polarbear]

MAKE THEM UP FOR THE KIDS!

[joekeith]

I use 'em close to a foot long, put on pink wrap and 5" pink feathers left full height.  I slip this over the wife's antenna on the top of her car so she can find it in parking lots.  That pink really stands out....  

[bosteldr]

I tape reflective tape to the end and use them as driveway marker in the winter.  I stick and arrow in the ground about every 15 to 20 yds or so. My driveway is about 400 ft long.  Usually the snow is not over 18 inches here in Ohio.  Works great, looks just like driving down airport runway at night.

[misfire]

I use them to fill up an empty box I had laying around...