Where do lost arrows go??

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:grin:Have you ever lost an arrow that cant be found? I have a time or two or three or four.
You know the one where you miss the target and the thing just disappears into the grass in your yard. You know exactly where it should be, but it just disappeared.
You offer the kids a dollar if they can find it. They come back in after a few minutes and no arrow.
Do they just spontanioulsly combust? :grin:
 
I have one that went high into a cedar tree and I know it didn't go out the back of it...and I cannot find it to save my life. I have done everything short of climbing the tree to see if its in the top... funny how those grass roots can hide one.
 
To find a lost arrow , get a line on your shot by lining up the target to the shooting position while you are walking behind the target .
This will give you a reference path to walk straight away from the target . Now take an old arrow with a field tip installed and start scraping the grass every 2 feet or so . When the arrow runs over the lost arrow , it will make a distinctive click . You won't find every lost arrow , but you will find many more this way .
...... not that I am an expert at losing arrows or anything . :D
 
i have lost more than i have found, but I always took the pitiful walk of shame to the shed and retreive the fire rake my father always used, and well it never made him happy but always went to ..well what I liked to call it...airiate his grass with this rake....!!! found a few, but lost more than a few!!! I think they should give you money back on everyone you lose...HAHHA
 
i have several lost..i lost one last yr and it couldnt have went to far..still i havnt found it and i still look 4 it..i even brought out the lawn mower to cut the grass all the way down,have found several this way..but still no luck.
 
My backyard borders a pasture. It's down to nothing in the winter so I go back there looking occassionally. I have 4 arrows back there somewhere.
 
When I got my last bow. I was sightin it in. I lost 5 or 6 arrows out of a dozen.. I was shooting on my fence row. the arrows went into the back yard of my neighbors(no house's anywhere close) So I got all ticked off and got out my weed eater... started mowing that crap down to the dirt... Found all my arrows.. Neighbor seen me doing this.. I had to buy him some grass seed!! I should have put some pot seeds in there .. old .... nevermind lol
 
yeah i use my metal detector... i dont think ive lost one yet...still takes quite a bit of searching but so far so good...
 
It is kind of embarrassing when your neighbors see you out in the back yard shooting, then a few minutes later you are walking in circles with your head down. You know that they know you missed..
 
I'm telling you.....When you miss a target a portal to a parallel universe opens and your arrow enters it at the speed of light.
 
I put my target on the edge of a gulley that runs behind the house. I have learned that if an arrow go through the bag or I miss, the arrow will sail over the gully, but drop enough to stick in the bank on the other side. I have found several that way.
 
My neighbor was shooting his crossbow behind my house and lost 2 bolts into the neighbors horse pasture. We found one but not the other. Knock on wood I haven't lost any in a while. We ended up putting to round hay bales up for a backstop so that will hopefully help any that are offline. I bushhogged a place for one of my friends back in late summer and just happened to look down after I had already cut a spot and there laid an arrow. Sometimes you find them when you're not looking.
 
Yeah the metal detectors work good. I've found that they tend to congregate together when they come to rest. A lot of people I work with come over to shoot and usually I find arrows within about a 1 yard span of one another and often times they come to rest in about a 1' from one another. Go figure.
 
This thread came to mind during a panic stricken moment I had this afternoon. I spent a couple hours tuning my 3D bow after changing the launcher style. After that I switched out bow/arrows for my FITA setup. I walked out back to my 50yd spot and let one fly....only to hit the ground 3' in front of the target. I immediately thought that I just hosed a brand new Navigator. Fortunately it skipped into a bag target I have behind my hanging bag target and was unscathed. Like an idiot I hadn't set my sight for 50yds from the last time I was shooting it at 20yds.

Here's a pic of the FITA setup if you forgot what it looks like :D

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used to have my target set up on top a hill. i thought doing this if i missed the arrows would just stick in the ground on the opposite hill across the small holler. after i lost a half dozen i got wise and looked up in the only tree in the holler to see all my arrows stuck in the side of the tree about 9 ft up. i felt like a dumbasss
 
UTGrad said:
That thing is awesome...bet the wife likes you taking pictures of it in the living room lol.
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That's my home office/man cave :D
 
buckdead said:
used to have my target set up on top a hill. i thought doing this if i missed the arrows would just stick in the ground on the opposite hill across the small holler. after i lost a half dozen i got wise and looked up in the only tree in the holler to see all my arrows stuck in the side of the tree about 9 ft up. i felt like a dumbasss
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:D That's funny!
 
"There's got to be a Little Arrow Heaven"


C'mon Jay you just wanted an excuse to post a picture of that bow again.. You're not fooling us.... I don't blame you either.
 

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