Personally for me, I shave hair off my knuckles and forearms to check for an edge. Push cutting newsprint is another way I do it. Just wondering what everyone else does to make sure your broadheads are ready to hunt.
I just feel mine. I can tell if they are sharp enough by feel. Same as a butcher, filet, hunting, pocket knife.
I also shave a few hairs. If they pop I'm good.
I ask my buddy to test it on his arm. If I have to take him in for stitches ( he is kinds clumsy) it is sharp enough.....
CHuckC
I use a rubber band. I touch each side several places up and down.
Same as reddogge, mostly. Once in awhile, I will try shaving arm but not much.
Two different ways: 1) Bite into a finger nail; 2) Shave arm hair.
Usually by the time deer season opens I look like I have mange on my arms and legs. :(
Feeling
Bitting finger nail
And shaving arm hair
I sharpen my heads very similar to what Tom Mussato does and I don't worry about it, I can tell with a light touch that they will work.
Used to shave hair years ago but now just by finger feel.
When they feel sharp, I then check to see if they will shave hair. Once they will, it is time to hunt.
Slicing paper, testing on fingernail, lightly brush thumb. I like the rubber band method, think I'll try that too next round of sharpening.
I run them across the diamond until I see a perfect edge and check them by feel, the time I stuck one under my thumb nail to check it didn't feel so well at all!
I've never been able to get them here popping sharp, I just check with my fingernail.
It's hard to shave with a three-blade, so I mostly do it by fingernail bite and feel.
Like bowhunterGa,My says can tell it's hunting season because my arms look like the mange.
I'm about like BowHunterGA, Bald spots everywhere. Wish I could get the dog to hold still! Michael do you have a KME BH sharpener? Man do they make em shave! I finish mine out on cardboard and then leather.
I've always worked with my hands some way or another so I have some nice calluses... if the broadhead cuts into them just by its own weight then it's done.
I check by feel just like sharpening a knife .
I am in the shave club. Currently have some nice patches on my legs from this past weekend touching up some Cutthroats.
Most all the above, but usually just feel.
By feel and finger nail bite as well.
Preferably on a critter but more likely to be on a tree trunk by mistake! But other than that I go with the majority and see if I can shave arm hair. My wife hates it and thinks its weird, which is a bonus!
I just check them with my fingertips.
Mine are all file sharp only so I just feel it gently with fingertips. I carry a small file in my pack to dress the edge if needed. I usually give it a single stroke on all four surfaces and it is like new again.
Like some of the others...I have many bald spots on my forearms.
I too shave hair on the back on my hands.....glad I'm not the only one!
Me too! I also use rubberbands and by feel. Knock on wood no stitches needed yet.
Rubber band method here. That's how my uncle taught me 40+ years ago.
feel...fingernail...hair shaving
A pack of rubber bands lasts a few seasons. The very light ones are more gratifying, but I am not sure that the thicker ones aren't more instructive: still thinking about that. Then of course there is the quicky thumbnail slide and the extremely cautious finger tip to edge technique