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Main Boards => PowWow => Topic started by: zwickey2bl on January 25, 2007, 08:39:00 AM
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Anyone here ever shot any game with the Hilbre head? I bought some off E-bay awhile back; they look wicked (like a Howard Hill head, but a very keen, needle point and razor insert bleeders) but seems like the steel is a little soft. I filed the points on a couple of them down to a more chisel-like profile, and have been carrying them but so far no chance to try one on anything. Just wondered if anyone else had any experience with these...
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If I remember right, the blades did not hold up to well on the ferrule, when bone was hit, leaving poor penetration. The ferrule I belive is made of some sort of plastic, You maybe better off with an all steel broadhead, of your choice. I have about a dozen Hilbre Heads, their nice to add to a collection, they are wicked looking. JMO Good Luck
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I think the couple I had were called 'Colt Super Hilbre'....I didn't ever use them on large game because of the plastic, and yes, wicked looking blade.
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I shot a couple deer with them 30+ years ago and a turkey with one last spring.
Never had the plastic ferrule fail but did have a tip roll over. Still killed everything I ever shot with them.
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Never shot anything with one, but as old as those things are, I suspect that the ferrule is pretty brittle and wouldn't hold up when it hit anything substantial.
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Used some of them years ago and killed a doe with it. Got a pass-through and the blade held up ok. Distroyed the rest shooting at rabbits.
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I think they were the heads that will actually screw on the wood taper...? You don't need glue...
Bob
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Thanks, guys. Yes, Bob, you're correct. They have shallow threads on the inside of the ferrule. I still glued them but not with hotmelt glue. I didn't know how old they were - that brittle plastic thing might be something to think about. They held up ok in a foam target.
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A long, long time ago, a buddy and I were hunting mountain goats here in Idaho, and he shot one with that head. If I recall correctly, the plastic head had snapped off the insert part. Still killed the goat, but he never hunted with them again.
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the plastic back then got brittle in the cold
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I was deer hunting with some years ago, shot twice at a squirrel instead and two of them were immediately destroyed. I was mighty glad I learned that prior to shooting at a deer with one.
They flew nice...right into the trash!