2 deer $50!!!
11-16-2008, 05:51 PM
#1
Nontypical Buck
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Location: Allegany County Maryland
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2 deer $50!!!
I was just sittin here pondering over the buck I shot yesterday morning and the one I shot earlier this year! I lost my arrow completely yesterday and the back half of my arrow got broken off on the earlier buck.
1 Beman Ics= $6
1 Tracer Nock= $10
1 Slick Trick= $8
Total= $24...x2= $48!!!! although I can change blades on previous broadhead that I recovered!!
WOW.... yet I will still go out and buy some more
!! I always wonder where all my money goes, damnit I just figured it out...arrows[8D]!!!! I know I could save money with not shooting the tracers, but I am shooting a relatively cheap broadhead...Id probably be crying right now if I lost a Carbon Xpress arrow, Tracer Nock, and Rage broadhead....[&:]!!
I know this has been discussed before, but what would this cost you if you lost your arrow??
1 Beman Ics= $6
1 Tracer Nock= $10
1 Slick Trick= $8
Total= $24...x2= $48!!!! although I can change blades on previous broadhead that I recovered!!
WOW.... yet I will still go out and buy some more
!! I always wonder where all my money goes, damnit I just figured it out...arrows[8D]!!!! I know I could save money with not shooting the tracers, but I am shooting a relatively cheap broadhead...Id probably be crying right now if I lost a Carbon Xpress arrow, Tracer Nock, and Rage broadhead....[&:]!!I know this has been discussed before, but what would this cost you if you lost your arrow??
11-16-2008, 05:58 PM
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RE: 2 deer $50!!!
11.25
1
12
So 24.25 per arrow.[&:] And I have lost three this year already, two broken off in animals (pronghorn and whitetail doe)and one lost on a missed turkey. There goes 75, lol.
I shoot FMJs with G5 Strikers...if I added a tracer nock, im looking at a 35 dollar arrow, WTH?! lol
BUT, when you think about it, what is 25 bucks to kill a deer, ya know?
1
12
So 24.25 per arrow.[&:] And I have lost three this year already, two broken off in animals (pronghorn and whitetail doe)and one lost on a missed turkey. There goes 75, lol.
I shoot FMJs with G5 Strikers...if I added a tracer nock, im looking at a 35 dollar arrow, WTH?! lol
BUT, when you think about it, what is 25 bucks to kill a deer, ya know?
11-16-2008, 06:12 PM
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Nontypical Buck
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Location: Central Kansas
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RE: 2 deer $50!!!
That is very cheap meat if you think about it. http://www.venisonworld.com/product.asp?ProductID=14069&DepartmentID=837
Back straps are good but not that good.[&:]
Back straps are good but not that good.[&:]
11-16-2008, 06:32 PM
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RE: 2 deer $50!!!
I lost 2 arrows this season. My arrows were gotten on closeout for $50/doz ~$4.25
My heads were all bought when you could get T-heads on sale for $20-$22 for 6. ~ $3.25
I'm only out less than $8.
My heads were all bought when you could get T-heads on sale for $20-$22 for 6. ~ $3.25
I'm only out less than $8.
11-16-2008, 08:01 PM
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RE: 2 deer $50!!!
Next year I still plan on using the Tracer nocks but need to get in the habit of using a regular(non lighted) nock during the daylight hours..[&:]What was I thinking i could have saved $10!! Oh well's!!
What about the rest of ya? Im sure someone can be cheaper then Rybo's $8 arrow and someones gotta be more expensive then TEmbry's $24.25!!
Then again your all right, thats still not much to pay for a deer!!
What about the rest of ya? Im sure someone can be cheaper then Rybo's $8 arrow and someones gotta be more expensive then TEmbry's $24.25!!
Then again your all right, thats still not much to pay for a deer!!
11-16-2008, 08:09 PM
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RE: 2 deer $50!!!
Heck I buy mine from sportsmans ware house cut to my size with blazers for 29.99 for half dozen so theres $5 an arrow and then slick tricks I didn't havebuy them this year, but I prolly will next year I will and that will bring it to $13 an arrow. Oh I forgat wraps... I bought a whole roll of them off ebay for $4 and it says it will do 180 arrows so that doesn't add much so its prolly around $13.20 an arrow.
11-16-2008, 09:29 PM
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RE: 2 deer $50!!!
Depends on what I hunt with.
My compound:
I haven't bought my arrows for several years. I think they were 6 bucks a peice. and the BHs were 18 for 3 (muzzy 4 blade 100) so about 12 bucks an arrow. The last two deer I have shot I lost both arrows. I know the area and have looked all over but can find them.
My Selfbow:
I shoot rivercane arrows I straightened and fletched with natural barred turkey feathers. Then I made the obsidian head myself. materials probably cost me $3-4 at themost. Probably less realy. The canewasa dolar a piece if I remember right...feathers werefree. obsidian was maybe.50 or a dolar a peice.so maybe 2 dolars an arrow. Of course only squirrels have got shot atso far. So a couple obsidian heads broken..and no squirrels ....I'll make more. LOL
My compound:
I haven't bought my arrows for several years. I think they were 6 bucks a peice. and the BHs were 18 for 3 (muzzy 4 blade 100) so about 12 bucks an arrow. The last two deer I have shot I lost both arrows. I know the area and have looked all over but can find them.
My Selfbow:
I shoot rivercane arrows I straightened and fletched with natural barred turkey feathers. Then I made the obsidian head myself. materials probably cost me $3-4 at themost. Probably less realy. The canewasa dolar a piece if I remember right...feathers werefree. obsidian was maybe.50 or a dolar a peice.so maybe 2 dolars an arrow. Of course only squirrels have got shot atso far. So a couple obsidian heads broken..and no squirrels ....I'll make more. LOL
11-17-2008, 02:06 AM
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RE: 2 deer $50!!!
$5 per arrow
$3 - 8 per BH
I'm only launching $13 tops out there at deer. Considering that I find over half of them in reusable condition, it's not so bad. Factor in how much a dozen arrows cost, and how many shots you get out of a dozen arrows, vs. how many shots you get out of a rifle, even something cheap like a .22 magnum, and ARCHERY is still much cheaper. I've probably got 30,000 shots on the 42 arrows that I've paid a total of about $180 for, with a .22 Magnum at $8/50 round, that would be somewhere around 1100 shots, give or take 100, with .22 LR ammo, at $10/500 that'd besomewhere around 9,000 shots, so archery would be EVEN cheaper than shooting a.22 at that rate, factor in $120 for strings, that will make up another6,000 shots or so, but I'm still cheaper shooting a bow, and I don't have neighbors complaining that they have LEAD flying through their backyards.
$3 - 8 per BH
I'm only launching $13 tops out there at deer. Considering that I find over half of them in reusable condition, it's not so bad. Factor in how much a dozen arrows cost, and how many shots you get out of a dozen arrows, vs. how many shots you get out of a rifle, even something cheap like a .22 magnum, and ARCHERY is still much cheaper. I've probably got 30,000 shots on the 42 arrows that I've paid a total of about $180 for, with a .22 Magnum at $8/50 round, that would be somewhere around 1100 shots, give or take 100, with .22 LR ammo, at $10/500 that'd besomewhere around 9,000 shots, so archery would be EVEN cheaper than shooting a.22 at that rate, factor in $120 for strings, that will make up another6,000 shots or so, but I'm still cheaper shooting a bow, and I don't have neighbors complaining that they have LEAD flying through their backyards.