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Author Topic: Broadheads used to fill tags ...  (Read 674 times)

Offline Bob B.

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Broadheads used to fill tags ...
« on: October 31, 2013, 12:18:00 AM »
What do you do, reuse them, put them away as trophies, something else?  I have all the arrows that filled tags (that were found), on display in my arrow spot.  Most still have the broad heads attached, some are broken shafts with the heads to never be seen again.

What do you guys do?

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Offline m midd

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Re: Broadheads used to fill tags ...
« Reply #1 on: October 31, 2013, 12:27:00 AM »
I sharpen and reuse the head if its not damaged.
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Re: Broadheads used to fill tags ...
« Reply #2 on: October 31, 2013, 12:28:00 AM »
I shoot expensive broadheads and it seems that almost all the deer I shoot get mad at me for shooting them and break my arrow as they run off. I just resharpen and reuse my broadheads!

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Re: Broadheads used to fill tags ...
« Reply #3 on: October 31, 2013, 12:34:00 AM »
I am just plain tight, I always re-sharpen  :bigsmyl:

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Re: Broadheads used to fill tags ...
« Reply #4 on: October 31, 2013, 12:50:00 AM »
If I can recover my broadhead I resharpen them and consider that my "lucky" head and put in on my number one arrow shaft. I shoot Magnus Snuffers so it's not terribly difficult to touch up the blades and they are ready to go again. I haven't shot replaceable blade broadheads for years, I always go with the sharpen, resharpen, and resharpen again until there's nothing left.
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Offline Bjorn

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Re: Broadheads used to fill tags ...
« Reply #5 on: October 31, 2013, 12:55:00 AM »
Some get kept with trophies others get reconditioned.

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Re: Broadheads used to fill tags ...
« Reply #6 on: October 31, 2013, 06:13:00 AM »
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Offline ishoot4thrills

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Re: Broadheads used to fill tags ...
« Reply #7 on: October 31, 2013, 06:17:00 AM »
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Originally posted by m midd:
I sharpen and reuse the head if its not damaged.
Same here.
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Re: Broadheads used to fill tags ...
« Reply #8 on: October 31, 2013, 07:52:00 AM »
Resharpen and reuse!! I did retire 1 broadhead. It is the one I killed my best buck ever. The deer is on a pedestal mount and the arrow is below the deer. It is laying in leaves like it was found.

Offline D.J. Carr

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Re: Broadheads used to fill tags ...
« Reply #9 on: October 31, 2013, 08:39:00 AM »
I can't put a lucky broadhead on the shelf!
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Re: Broadheads used to fill tags ...
« Reply #10 on: October 31, 2013, 08:41:00 AM »
I carry the wolverine broadhead in my back quiver pouch that I used to take my first whitetail.
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Offline Gen273

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Re: Broadheads used to fill tags ...
« Reply #11 on: October 31, 2013, 09:53:00 AM »
Re-sharpen and re-use, at least that is what I do.
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Offline jjwaldman

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Re: Broadheads used to fill tags ...
« Reply #12 on: October 31, 2013, 10:11:00 AM »
Resharpen and put on the next go to arrow.

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Re: Broadheads used to fill tags ...
« Reply #13 on: October 31, 2013, 10:15:00 AM »
I have some that are retired with the arrow from special hunts like my mountain lion and caribou.
Others I just resharpen and go again. I have a cedar arrow in my bow quiver that just killed its 3rd deer last weekend. Same arrow, same zwickey delta
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Offline johnnyk71

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Re: Broadheads used to fill tags ...
« Reply #14 on: October 31, 2013, 10:31:00 AM »
this Magnus I got retired… in the skull of the bobcat it killed.

 
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Re: Broadheads used to fill tags ...
« Reply #15 on: October 31, 2013, 10:33:00 AM »
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Originally posted by Bisch:
I shoot expensive broadheads and it seems that almost all the deer I shoot get mad at me for shooting them and break my arrow as they run off. I just resharpen and reuse my broadheads!

Bisch
Same here.
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Re: Broadheads used to fill tags ...
« Reply #16 on: October 31, 2013, 10:58:00 AM »
Usually reuse them.  I do have a few over my workbench for momentos of the different style broadheads I have used.  These are all on broken shafts that have been through whitetail.

   
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Re: Broadheads used to fill tags ...
« Reply #17 on: October 31, 2013, 11:15:00 AM »
I leave them on the bloody and sometimes broken shaft and throw them on a shelf in my shed.
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Offline Dave Lay

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Re: Broadheads used to fill tags ...
« Reply #18 on: October 31, 2013, 12:32:00 PM »
If its found, sharpen and reuse but it goes in the last position of my quiver to give the others thier turn  lol
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Re: Broadheads used to fill tags ...
« Reply #19 on: October 31, 2013, 01:27:00 PM »
Sharpen and reuse...
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