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Main Boards => PowWow => Topic started by: njshadowwalker on March 07, 2006, 06:42:00 PM
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Hey guys...ive shot judos and bluts for a long time and was wondering if anyone has tried to use a steel washer behind a field point for squirrels and rabbits?
Figure thew washer would help prvent loss but also increase the initial shock behind the point.
Any thoughts?
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Yep, I've done it in the past. Works pretty well.
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I've tried it just to add weight , if washer is to big then the arrow might plane.
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its a good way to break an arrow where the washer is placed if you have a glancing blow. :readit:
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I've used a washer behind a screw in field point if that's what you're talking about :wavey: ....Van
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Try a wingnut behind a screwin fieldpoint with the wings forward. works great on bushytails.<><
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We used to use that setup for gophers when I was in high school. We couldn't afford Judo points, but the washers worked just as well, and were free for the taking in Dad's shop. :D
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I've used the washer and the wingnut last year, they both worked fine. I think the wingnut worked more like a judo, and didn't skip near as much as the washer, but both worked.
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Just tried it, it works well. Thank you.
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I've used a screw and a sheet metal washer for blunts with good results. Also, used a plastic washer behind a Bear Razorhead on turkeys to prevent complete pass throughs. Hard for a turkey to run through the brush with an arrow sticking out both sides. Now I use Blunts on turkeys and try to shoot them in the head. Either works or you miss and no crippled turkey.
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Flinch,
Sounds like it might work, but is it legal in your state to hunt turkeys with blunts?
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It was in Nebraska; Dick Turpin of the Nebraska Game and Parks promoted it to reduce crippling toms. I hit a tom in the breast with a blunt from a 84# Compound (God Forbid) and he flopped a bunch, then got up walked around getting his bearings and flew off just fine. I had a witness also watching with binoculars. It was pretty funny, but I got hung up in a fence and couldn't get to him fast enough. I was trying for a head shot and I misjudged the distance. A broadhead would have not done him any good, but he could have easily got far enough to hid? I feel better knowing he wasn't crippled. Now that I look back on it; I didn't have to field dress him either. Also, I was a Breeder Flock Supervisor for Swift and Company for a while back in the early 1980's and having been around so many turkeys; both tame and wild; they don't excite me much. Now put antlers on them and it would be different.