Who carries an arrow rake while shooting 3d or stumping? What are you all using. Would like to see some pics if possible.

got a little 2 prong thing that screws into an arrow shaft- not worth much

brother made one out of a fish gift and a solid handle and rakes perpendiculat to shaft really digs them up

I generally just scrape with my shoe

Don't have a pic Pete, but a guy that shoots in the local tourneys has one that's the hook off a bunji cord glued onto an old large diameter aluminum arrow shaft. He says it works pretty well. Myself, I don't like planning on losing arrows, even though I occasionally do, I also don't like carrying extra crap around.

I generally use a carbon arrow gripped close to the point. Works for me, sometimes. JF

My Golden Retriever ,Whoopie. And she finds Blacktail sheds too. I have to use aluminum, arrows with plastic vanes because dog drool is not good for feathers.

Out roving, just she and I. We do not mix well with people.

Ive used Judos

I salvage aluminum shafts from the steel turkey at 3D shoots , I sleeve a couple together and add a U bolt that I ve cut about a 1/3 off to create a hook , then epoxy the U bolt into the aluminum shaft. I also add a insert in the butt end and use that for prying or using to pull points out of stubs etc.

A $20 kids toy metal detector that folds up works good.can't get a picture right now but will post one later.Best thing I have found and cheap too. OSR

Just a steel rod with an antler for a grip.

I have made "arrow scratchers" from aluminum shafts, fiberglass shafts, golf clubs and even butt sections of bamboo fly rods. Usually I epoxy a length of aluminum shaft with an insert onto the main shaft. Drill out the insert and JB Weld a bent large nail into it. My latest even have corks grips from some left over fly rod projects. My buddies in San Diego grabbed the bamboo fly rod ones, said they were more "Trad".

Put duck scentused for training dogs on the fletch, my lab could find them no matter how deep they got buried-miss that dog

Don't use anything roving. Used to use an old broom handle when shooting in the yard, until I built a decent backstop.

MP

I also use a cheap metal detector for those arrows that get under the grass, I dont have anyone near me to shoot 3d with and I highly doubt I would drag the metal detector to a shoot with me, but it works well when I'm stumping out in my pasture.

I also use a cheap metal detector for those arrows that get under the grass, I dont have anyone near me to shoot 3d with and I highly doubt I would drag the metal detector to a shoot with me, but it works well when I'm stumping out in my pasture.

I also use a cheap metal detector for those arrows that get under the grass, I dont have anyone near me to shoot 3d with and I highly doubt I would drag the metal detector to a shoot with me, but it works well when I'm stumping out in my pasture.

The ACE broad head folks make a glue on as well as a threaded brass hook that you can mount to an old arrow shaft. The screw on version fits in my quiver pocket nicely, and I can quicky remove a target point from my arrow and screw it on to use it as a scratcher. I use the glue on version on an old wood arrow when I'm shooting woodies. Works OK, but a bigger utensil, something like a hand garden tiller, works better.

rbatect,

I like that U bolt hook....I need one of those around. I get cocky and take uphill shots at small targets and my yard 'eats' arrows. I have to roughly know where they went and get down on my hands and knees and rake with my fingers.

I tried a leaf rake and it didn't work at all (except for moving leaves which was helpful).

A blunt drilled and a heavy wire bent into a hook, heated and tempered and silver soldered into it. The blunt is screwed into an old 2020 shaft with a cord handle. It will never bend.

BTW I carry this not only for my arrows but for my buddies' arrows too on the 3-D course.

Lightweight too.

Paint roller handle cut to the size and shape I like. The long one is for the back quiver and the short one is for my hip pocket. The plastic handles broke so I made wooden ones out of 1" dowel. I found if I beveled the end of the long one it works better. I should do the short one too.

Don't need one as I never miss.

Here is my kiddies you telescopic metal detector extended. OSR

The same one retracted.Runs off a 9 volt battery OSR

For 3Ds I use this.....

http://www.3riversarchery.com/the-arrow-hook.html

For roving I use Judos so a hook isn't needed. If fact all of my outdoor target shooting is with Judos. I will hang empty gallon jugs as my target in addition to shooting at leaves, weed heads, shadows, etc.

Just buy a fishing gaff at a yard sale and modify the hook a bit. I mostly shoot 3D with a friend who carries one so I never do. Be a bit gentle as they will break an arrow.

DDave

My english cocker sniff them out.

Really? If my shooting buddies seen me carrying something like this I would get laughed right off the course, kind of like binos,chairs and umbrellas.

I guess mjsekerak doesn't miss as much as I do, LOL. Thanks guys for the ideas.

Haven't read all the posts but ACE broadheads sells a brass hook that you can glue on a broken wood arrow shaft after you retaper it. I have taken a long broadhead adapter and glue it into it and used it on a old bent aluminum arrow shaft. They work real well and take up no more space than a arrow shaft. DANNY

Line cutter: The ACE one is really nice and they have a screw in verson also have seen them

I used to carry a ball retriever when I went golfing, and eventually realized I would be better off concentrating on my golf. Arrows, though, almost no limit as to how expensive they can be.

I need to use an aluminum ladder. Seriously.

Last December, I was shooting from an elevated position a quartering away shot from about 18 yards, with about 2 inches of snow on the ground. I hit low and left and the arrow went under my bag target and I thought I saw it kick hard to the left and go down the slope beyond my backstop. I've looked for that arrow, a Micro-Flite 6 with bright yellow cresting and red and yellow fletching, all over that slope several times a week for 3 months, scraping and raking. This morning I was out walking the dogs, came up out of the woods on the old logging road that serves as my practice lane, and happened to look to my right as I came up behind the backstop and there was my lost arrow: sticking into a poplar trunk below the road ,at my eye height but 13 feet up the trunk. The tree is 20 yards directly beyond the backstop. I bet I tromped and scraped around under that tree a dozen times looking for that arrow..I just never looked UP.

If you shoot with Navajo people you'll discover that their kids are eager to find your arrows (and they have radar arrow-finding eyes). They do good things just for the fun of it and don't see a connetion to getting paid. Nonetheless I do plan to contribute an extra $20 at each shoot in 2017 telling the organizers how great their kids are.

Here's my arrow rake. I've made several for our club and keep one out on my range.....works great and has helped me find a lot of arrows in the leaves and grass.

Buy a rake handle from Lowes for about $9.00 along with a galvanized spike. Epoxy the spike in then cut the head off, heat with a torch and bent the hook.....bingo, a good arrow rake that will last for years.

I might scratch around with my boot or an arrow but I don't waste much time doing it. If I miss that bad I deserve to lose the arrow.

I'd rather break or bend an arrow then lose one. I hate leaving a man behind!

A friend made some and gave them away. He used old golf clubs cut off the heads to the desired length then JB welded a L shaped hook in the shaft. Drops right into a back quiver. Very handy tool at 3d shoots. 58

I'm out there like an animal using my bow tip.

Pete, I don't have a rake, but I do have this guy, who finds almost all of the ones I bury... He's only not found one arrow so far...

gOOd idea; always planned tO get One but never did>

i woUld nOt use ONe during a shOOt and wOuld lOOk askance at peOple whO dO> shOOts mOve slOWly enOUgh, especially with compOund shOOters>

gO back after shOOting hOUrs>

We only give it a couple of minutes with all hands on deck looking. Usually found. If you've ever seen the scratched up areas behind the targets we're not the only ones either.

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