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Tsalagi:
Well, generally, if you find a perfect or near perfect point away from a village site (i.e. in an area with lots of pottery shards and other artifacts), it was a lost arrow. Not always, but many times.

There's a canyon here outside of town. Near Winona. Yes, the "Flagstaff, Arizona...don't forget Winona..." of the "Get Your Kicks On Route 66" song. (I'll settle everyone's curiosity who haven't been here---there's NOTHING in Winona!!!! A frickin' gas station---whoo-hoo! Take pics, tell the family, stop for souvineers!  ::) )
Anyway, I could see my backdrop well beyond the other side of the canyon, so decided to see how far the arrows could go. Got some stumper arrows out of the quiver and let go. It cleared the canyon and landed on the other side. Well, now, when we crossed over to retrieve our arrows, I couldn't find one. About four months later, a co-worker who knows I'm into traditional archery comes to tell me he wants to show me this great artifact he found. He shows me that lost arrow!!! I said, yeah, seen it before. It's mine, but you can have it if it means something to you. Oh, and you might want to check with the museum, but I'm pretty sure the Sinagua tribe didn't have plastic nocks, steel field points, or Port Orford Cedar. To be fair, the nock was black, so he might have thought it was horn or something.  ;) Oh, well, whaddya gonna do with people???

I generally look for an arrow for about 5 or 10 minutes. After that, it becomes an offering.

FlintWalker:
I usually look pretty hard for them.  I'm tighter'n the bark on a beech tree  :-[
 I sometimes paint the whole arrow white.

Pat B:
Most of the arrows I shoot these days are either hardwood shoots or cane. Lots of time goes into either so I usually give a good look but after a while I just consider it a gift back to Mother Nature. After all, she gave it to me to begin with!  ;D

Swamp Bow:

--- Quote from: Pat B on December 12, 2009, 05:31:25 pm ---Most of the arrows I shoot these days are either hardwood shoots or cane. Lots of time goes into either so I usually give a good look but after a while I just consider it a gift back to Mother Nature. After all, she gave it to me to begin with!  ;D

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I like that.

Swamp

sailordad:
i look untill they are found
i may give up for the day,but always relook when i am in the same area again.
i lost an arrow 2 years ago turkey hunting,missed the bird and the arrow went into an uncut/unused field.
this year when the wife and i were hunting there again,we looked in that same area again 3-4 differant times.
this time the field was cut and we found my arrow.i was shooting the back yard one day and lost an arrow trhu the fence(in the winter)
the house next door has been forclosed for 2 yrs now,i went back in ths spring and found it with a rake.

i am like sawfiler,way to tight to let them be gone.
granted i collect my own shaft material,so its more or less free.
but it figure my time and gas and the work has to be worth me to put in the time to find it.

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