Do you retire your arrow after a kill ?
#22
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From: Cumming Georgia USA
I've retired every arrow I've used so far with the blood and broadhead on em. My dad had a very interesting idea this year, whenever you shoot an aminal put a notch in your broadhead (the part inside the shaft of your arrow) and see how many animals you can kill with that one broadhead (changing the blades and spin testing it first though) So far he has 3 notches in 1 broadhead and one notch in 2 other heads. I'm going to adopt this myself next season. 
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#23
Nontypical Buck
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From: Peterstown WV USA
If I have the animal mounted then the arrow goes with it but it must be a unique animal for me to mount it the last thing I mounted was a 130 class 8pt I did retire one arrow this year as it has taken 5 deer and 2 bobcats and 1 coon those ACC's sure are tough all 5 deer were taken with the same 100gr shockwave and 4 out of 5 with the same blades just sharpened. I am now useing an arrow that has 4 kills of a whitetail.
#24
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From: Arlington WA USA
If I were mounting a trophy, I would retire the arrow and broadhead. Since I prefer meat over trophy, after a kill, I thoroughly clean the arrow and put fresh blades on it then spin it. If it spins perfectly, it goes back in my quiver. If it doesn't, I add it to my practice brodhead arrows.
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#25
i dont really keep them unless they break or something.. but only if they kill the deer.. lol
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#26
Nontypical Buck
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From: New Jersey USA
I used to but after a while you end up with a bunch of old arrows and most of the time I can't remember which ones killed which deer. Now I reuse them if possible, and retire them if not. I shot a point this year with an arrow that killed a 9 point last year, only thing I changed was the blades.
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#28
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From: Barryton MI USA
I have on 2 the first was a nice 16pt had a shoulder mount done with the arrow below it the 2nd is a doe that I had shoulder mounted with the arrow below it,other than that if the arrow is still straight I will reuse it,and I did clean the blood off from the arrow's or actually the taxidermist did before he glued them to the board


