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?

As long as the arrow is still good I reuse them. I shot three deer with the same arrow before it was junk.

Yes I retire every arrow and head I am used in the kill.

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.

At $80 / dozen I'm gonna keep shooting it, even if I have to get the duck tape.

Now that quacks me up.

I agree to expensive to be retiring good arrows

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

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.

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.