How many broadhead tipped arrows do you take hunting?
04-10-2004, 10:10 PM
#42
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Michigan
Posts: 4,693
RE: How many broadhead tipped arrows do you take hunting?
4 tipped with thunderheads, 2 with field tips. I've never harvested small game while in the tree and don't really intend to, but I've fallen into the habit of firing a field tipped arrow right before I get out of the tree, morning or night hunt. This offers me the opportunity to make sure I'm still dead on.
I've missed the same deer twice in one evening, so I will always take more than one broadhead tipped arrow with me.
I've missed the same deer twice in one evening, so I will always take more than one broadhead tipped arrow with me.
04-11-2004, 02:37 AM
#44
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Harford Co Maryland USA
Posts: 4,966
RE: How many broadhead tipped arrows do you take hunting?
Four sharp, broadhead tipped arrows, one practice broadhead of the same make and one field tipped arrow.
One the next to last day of last season, I made the mistake of going into the woods with only two arrows (didn't figure I'd need more than one with only a day left). I got a shot at last light and hit just a tad too far back--liver shot. I placed another arrow on the string and watched it come off as the deer ran by--THE ARROW THEN FELL TO THE GROUND! [:@]
The deer went down UNDER MY STAND, but was alert and able to move. I could do nothing but watch until it finally got up and walked away. I found it the next morning, but could've ended it's suffering sooner and taken it out that evening with me if I had had one more arrow with me. I had removed my practice arrow that afternoon just before leaving the truck!
One the next to last day of last season, I made the mistake of going into the woods with only two arrows (didn't figure I'd need more than one with only a day left). I got a shot at last light and hit just a tad too far back--liver shot. I placed another arrow on the string and watched it come off as the deer ran by--THE ARROW THEN FELL TO THE GROUND! [:@]
The deer went down UNDER MY STAND, but was alert and able to move. I could do nothing but watch until it finally got up and walked away. I found it the next morning, but could've ended it's suffering sooner and taken it out that evening with me if I had had one more arrow with me. I had removed my practice arrow that afternoon just before leaving the truck!
04-11-2004, 05:45 PM
#49
Join Date: Mar 2004
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Posts: 881
RE: How many broadhead tipped arrows do you take hunting?
I take 12. Yeah that seems like a lot but that is what i take and here is why. I shot 3 coyotes, by 9 A.M. with 4 arrows(Never seen more then 1 in a day since). Shot a doe at 10 A.M. with one arrow i couldn't find. Tracked her 50 yards and tagged her. It was cold, good mourning so i was back in the stand by 11 A.M. Took a shot at a Fox at 70 yards and missed at 11:30. Then i shot a 10 point 136 6/8 inch buck at 1 P.M. Good thing i had all of them arrows. Best day of hunting I've ever had. I would rather have to many then not enough. Sure i could have not shot the coyotes and fox if i only had 3 arrows but what fun is hunting without shooting stuff.