Your metal detector must suck. lol I can find them pretty easy. I have a minelab safari and it will pick up those tips with no trouble. Get a bigger target or don't miss. lol You can buy some hay bales and set behind your target. Hay bales won't always stop the arrows but will slow them way down making them easier to find.

 

As long as its not an arrow with a broadhead I use my feet. I like to shoot in my backyard and usually don't wear shoes for this very reason. If I know the general direction I missed then I will stand perpendicular the arrows flight path and side step 6" or so until I find the arrow. The fletchings will stick into the bottoms of your feet and are super easy to find.

 

lawnmower

 

Put a gps chip in each arrow! LOL!

 

try using a ruber cow matt that will stop our arrow

 

Weedeater I use a stihl haha

 

I lost an arrow the other day. Couldnt find it with my metal detector which probably means it flew off somewhere...lol

So i bought a round bail of hay. Hanging an old thick comforter would work too....

 

At first I found the best solution for me was to mow the grass really short behind thetarget, but i still have the odd one that buries deep enough to be hard to find. Just before deer season kicked off, i came up with the best solution yet to find the arrows, a white wrap, with white and fluroresent yellow vanes. I use my POS blood tracking flashlight with white and blue LEDs. select the blue only and start looking at dusk, the white and yellow vanes stand out when the blue light hits them. Way faster then a metal detector and cheaper then a mower.

 

Just take an arrow or other sharp tipped tool and "scratch" a line every 2 feet on the path of the arrow. You'll hit it and will notice a distinct click. Another way is to get better and don't miss anymore! haha, if only that easy right?

 

keep looking prob went further then you think.

 

a rake... i dont know how good it would be on the arrows but it should work.

 

Drag a garden rake back & forth where you think it went or I hook up the lawn dethatcher behind the riding mower & go back & forth until I find the arrow (it picks them up without any damage).

 

Best thing is dont miss. Second best a an 8' x 4' piece of convayor belt material. I put it up with a post at each end and dig it into the ground about 2 inches. A PSE TAC15 aint gonna put an arrown thru it.

 

D-Train, You're dead on Brother !!!!! :thumbs_up

 

Old hot tub cover is my backstop, its like 4x8 foam and I actually can shoot into it on purpose, its a great long range target for sighting in. My fmjs only go about 10 inchs in then stop. Havnt lost or broke an arrow practicing since I put it up.

 

Even though I have only been shooting for about 3 months now I learned a technique that flat works.…I don't miss ever…except that one that went into outer space when I sneezed drawing back..I'm serious that thing went up and took out Sputnik with a rage 2. And I lost one in the neighbors yard. I assume he will find it with a lawnmower, or sputnik will land on it and destroy it diverting attention from the fact I flung an arrow into his yard

 

You need TWO pieces of wire 14 -18" long, make a 90 degree bend in each piece about 6" from one end. So now you have 2 (L) shaped pieces. The 6" part is the handle..LIGHTLY hold wire one in each hand> hold your hands about 14" apart and walk over the area were you think the arrow is. The two long ends of each wire will gently cross over each other when you're standing over the arrow. Try it> drop an arrow on the ground and as you walk over it the wires cross. Primative yes but cheaper that a metal detector.

 

My block target center area is so chewed up, I use the corners most of the time. Just trying to beat the thing to death!!! It's always that....whooops I jerked it and flung the arrow just off the black dot. Hate loosing expensive arrows. Biggest problem in this part of the world is St. Augustine Grass (controlled vines) for lack of a better word. When the arrows go tunneling you can't even make lines through that sh** for reference to locate the shafts.

d-train, your idea was what I used when I lived in the north and it works great. This turf sucks down here in N Fla.

pabuckslayer might just have what I am looking for. A hot tub cover

 

i have a 3-d target with giant blocks of foam behind it and will stop a arrow real nice but it is a pain to pull it out when i miss the deer

 

a rake or a hay hook works pretty good.