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Retire the arrow as it was found
13.73%
Retire the arrow, but clean it off
5.88%
reuse the arrow next season, could be lucky
69.61%
I've never taken a deer yet with a bow.
10.78%
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Retire your arrows or call them lucky?

Old 12-06-2007, 03:38 PM
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Default Retire your arrows or call them lucky?

Just curious if you guys that take a deer with archery equiptment keep the arrow from your kills as a keepsake or clean it off and use it again because it could be lucky?
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Old 12-06-2007, 03:40 PM
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As long as the arrow is still good I reuse them. I shot three deer with the same arrow before it was junk.
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Old 12-06-2007, 03:40 PM
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Yes I retire every arrow and head I am used in the kill.
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Old 12-06-2007, 03:46 PM
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I dont need a keepsake and I don't necessarily think the arrow is lucky but I continue to use the arrow because that is its intended use.
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Old 12-06-2007, 03:55 PM
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At $80 / dozen I'm gonna keep shooting it, even if I have to get the duck tape.

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Old 12-06-2007, 04:04 PM
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Now that quacks me up.
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At $80 / dozen I'm gonna keep shooting it, even if I have to get the duck tape.
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Old 12-06-2007, 04:12 PM
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I agree to expensive to be retiring good arrows
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Old 12-06-2007, 04:13 PM
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Default RE: Retire your arrows or call them lucky?

i posted this same thing in october...

im still up in the air about it...my arrow this year came out perfectly fine...still in the basement with blood and hair still covering it. think because it was my first, i am going to put some dowle rods into my mount plaque when i get the mount back, and let the arrow rest on the pegs forever...

then any future deer killin arrows, i will date the fletchings with a sharpie and what they killed. retire them after 3
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Old 12-06-2007, 04:13 PM
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My first deer that I shot the arrow broke in half. I only found the fletchingend of the arrow so I didn't keep it.
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Old 12-06-2007, 04:17 PM
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If it's in good shape I reuse mine. I shot 5 deer with the same arrow, however that arrow got stuck in a deer this year and he ran close to a tree with it in him and broke it off.
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