Hey everyone,
I have never shot blunts at small game/stump shooting and I am in a delima. I want to be able to nock something like a rabbit down and want to be able to get my blunt back afterwards. Are the rubber/plastic slip on blunts better or something like the hex blunt? These blunts will be bouncing off of rocks and I need to know what will hold up. In your opinion...what should I get?
Personally I like Judos and Hex Blunts. Both will take a beating and keep on trucking!! :thumbsup:
Although I think hex blunts are the deadliest out there they are not so forgiving on misses that end up hitting hard targets. (stick into trees, like shooting a field point when hitting rocks) The plastic bludgeons with the little points on the end are my favorite for that kinda thing. For stumping I like good old judos.
judos are my personal favorite and do some pretty nasty things to small game
For stumps, clumps, weeds, patches of sunlight, patches of moonlight, soda cans and odd bits of ground that are 'looking at you funny', rubber blunts are great.
For things with fur, I think you really want to stick to hex heads or something along those lines. You want to kill em, not touch them up.
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I bought a bunch of MA# rejects and bobbed them down about 1/2 " . they are my favorite small game head now mounted on a flu flu.
taking about 50 with us to Idaho for grouse and rabbits.
Mike
I like Hex-Heads. They come in a wide variety of weights and shoot like a field point. Also use older broadheads at times.
I just like to use regular steel blunts there cheap and get the job done
I like and use the Ace Hex Blunt. Taken Small Game with no retrieval problems. Well there was that one issue of trying to take a Mountain Grouse from a tree above me :D
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Ace Hex Head Blunts are by far the deadliest I've used.
Chad
Lee... those little Texas cottontails are tough as nails. They're not at all like the eastern cottontail which is fairly easy to kill.
Since you are shooting 53# I'd recommend a small broadhead...the cheapest you can find. If you can't afford a broadhead then I'd recommend the Ace Hex head.
Do your best to make chest and head hits and you'll do fine.
I like hex heads, or a field point with what I call a squirrel shredder behind it. Those little stamped star shape things do good on squirrels.
But magnus makes a cool broadhead blunt that should be real good for bunnies. I haven't tried mine yet.
The Montec small game points are awesome and their customer service can't be beat. I had one break on me and sent it back---they shipped THREE to replace it. Very potent on squirrels and rabbits.
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I like Ace Hex blunts & Judo's are my second choice. I have had the Ace Hexs bounce off rocks & only get a dent in them. Frank
Have any of you guys used the old Tiger Claws? It is an odd shaped blunt that is threaded to take a machine screw which holds a small bladed cap. The head with screw and cap weigh about 145grains, without the cap and screw it weighs about 85grains. This head goes hand in hand with a 100 grain bludgeon. If you look at the top of the bludgeon, the rib pattern and detent in the center matches the tiger claw. You take a razor knife and cut small notches around the outer edge between the ribs and you drill out the center hole. This will allow the bladed cap to fot over the bludgeon. The tiger claw can be used alone with cap and screw for small game. You can remove the cap and screw and slip on the modified bludgeon and have teeth like notches which work well for stumping and not so tuff small game. Or you can slip on the modified bludgeon and install the bladed cap and center srew for one heck of a whallop! I used to call those bludgeon claws:^) A very versitile combo from one single arrow and one single mounted point.
I shot a squirrell last year with a hex blunt because I wanted to add it to a mount. The blunt stuck in the squirrell and I watched it run up a tree with the head in it and it fell out as it went in a hole in the tree. Never got that squirrell. Man was that wierd to watch happen...I couldn't believe it. :biglaugh:
Believe it or not, I've had that happen with broadheads too. Squirrels are an amazingly tough animal.
Agreed, I once put three field points into a single squirrel before he fell out of the tree!