Any tips on finding arrows in the grass

[wall of wood camp]

I am new to the bow scene and I was shooting my new bow i missed the target a few times and didn't think much of it until I went to pick up the arrows and they were nowhere to be found I started combing through the grass on my hands and knees and found all but two arrows those suckers really burrow down in there any suggestions for finding the other two they are aluminum arrows with target tips not detectable with the metal detector I have.

[bobcat]

I wish I had a tip for you, but I don't. I have lost several arrows in the grass in my back yard. Only thing I can say is get a bigger target.

[Smossy]

I am new to the bow scene and I was shooting my new bow i missed the target a few times and didn't think much of it until I went to pick up the arrows and they were nowhere to be found I started combing through the grass on my hands and knees and found all but two arrows those suckers really burrow down in there any suggestions for finding the other two they are aluminum arrows with target tips not detectable with the metal detector I have.

Get a steel rake, Ive found a few this way, the field behind my target is all dead cutt grass so there's spots with dead piles.  Gotta just go through everything, Sometimes sit takes me 2 minutes, Sometimes it takes me 2 hours, My advice. Get lighted arrow nocks for practice. Also, get some string, lay it from where your shooting spot is, to where It missed the target. Then follow that straight line to beyond the target. Me and my girl have both found a few this way also.

[lokidog]

You have it made trying to find aluminum arrows, get a cheap metal detector -- easy.  It's trying to find the metal tip on a carbon arrow that's challenging.   

[huntnphool]

You have it made trying to find aluminum arrows, get a cheap metal detector -- easy.  It's trying to find the metal tip on a carbon arrow that's challenging.   

alloys are detected by those machines?

[lokidog]

You have it made trying to find aluminum arrows, get a cheap metal detector -- easy.  It's trying to find the metal tip on a carbon arrow that's challenging.   

alloys are detected by those machines?

Yep, it might show up as trash on some of the fancier ones, but it will sound off.  I used one my boy got a few Christmases back to fins one I "misplaced" last fall, and I just had the tip to try to find.  It is amazing how they can bury under the grass, even in a mowed area.

[huntnphool]

You have it made trying to find aluminum arrows, get a cheap metal detector -- easy.  It's trying to find the metal tip on a carbon arrow that's challenging.   

alloys are detected by those machines?

Yep, it might show up as trash on some of the fancier ones, but it will sound off.  I used one my boy got a few Christmases back to fins one I "misplaced" last fall, and I just had the tip to try to find.  It is amazing how they can bury under the grass, even in a mowed area.

Thats cool and a good idea.

[Swannytheswan]

my dog use to go find them for me....she would run down there and find it and look back at me as kind of a signal...but if I wasn't paying attention she would just take off and I would never find it

[Redbeard]

I picked up a cheap metal detector garage selling.  Well worth the ten bucks.

[wall of wood camp]

Thanks Guys I tried the fancy metal detector we have at work but for some reason it didnt seem to work on the arrows or the tips i laid one out on the ground and ran it over  the top of the arrow it didn't pick it up.  it will locate manhole lids waterlines five feet underground but apparnetly has no reaction to alluminum.  I did the metal rake thing and came up empty those things can really burrow guess worst case im out a coupple arrows i will pay more attention now that i learned that lesson.  I knew someone would have the suggestion of a bigger target the only problem is it might need to be elephant sized HAHa   I know they will travel right through a vinyl fence without missing a beat guess i wont tell the wife about that little hole!  I think Im hooked regardless of the trials and errors. 

[Swannytheswan]

hang some carpet behind your target and if it is free hanging it should stop your arrows and save you some money

[Smossy]

Thanks Guys I tried the fancy metal detector we have at work but for some reason it didnt seem to work on the arrows or the tips i laid one out on the ground and ran it over  the top of the arrow it didn't pick it up.  it will locate manhole lids waterlines five feet underground but apparnetly has no reaction to alluminum.  I did the metal rake thing and came up empty those things can really burrow guess worst case im out a coupple arrows i will pay more attention now that i learned that lesson.  I knew someone would have the suggestion of a bigger target the only problem is it might need to be elephant sized HAHa   I know they will travel right through a vinyl fence without missing a beat guess i wont tell the wife about that little hole!  I think Im hooked regardless of the trials and errors. 

You get find those huge large round hay bails for like 30$ a piece and use 3 as a backstop stacked like a triangle. Works pretty well.

[deerslyr]

Dont miss  Ive spent many hours searching for arrows...

[huntnphool]

Thanks Guys I tried the fancy metal detector we have at work but for some reason it didnt seem to work on the arrows or the tips i laid one out on the ground and ran it over  the top of the arrow it didn't pick it up.  it will locate manhole lids waterlines five feet underground but apparnetly has no reaction to alluminum.  I did the metal rake thing and came up empty those things can really burrow guess worst case im out a coupple arrows i will pay more attention now that i learned that lesson.  I knew someone would have the suggestion of a bigger target the only problem is it might need to be elephant sized HAHa   I know they will travel right through a vinyl fence without missing a beat guess i wont tell the wife about that little hole!  I think Im hooked regardless of the trials and errors.

I didn't think they worked on aluminum but Loki seems sure. Maybe there is a sensitivity adjustment?

[buckfvr]

they pick up field tips........or broadheads