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Title: broadhead touchup
Post by: cyred4d on October 11, 2011, 08:24:00 PM
How often do you touch up your broadheads during the hunting season? I feel that I dull the head a bit every time I put it back in the quiver.
Title: Re: broadhead touchup
Post by: wooddamon1 on October 11, 2011, 08:49:00 PM
I like to do it nightly around a fire...   :campfire:
Title: Re: broadhead touchup
Post by: Blaino on October 11, 2011, 09:04:00 PM
QuoteOriginally posted by wooddamon1:
I like to do it nightly around a fire...    :campfire:  [/QUOTE

Wish I had that option... If it won't pop hair I put a few light strokes with the file to it and it should be good.
Title: Re: broadhead touchup
Post by: graybarkhunter on October 11, 2011, 10:17:00 PM
im usually a weekend warrior with work ,etc, so thurs night is when i touch up, and ready to head out friday to kill
Title: Re: broadhead touchup
Post by: 30coupe on October 12, 2011, 12:23:00 AM
I check them the night before I hunt. A few strokes with a file or jewel stick is all it takes.
Title: Re: broadhead touchup
Post by: stujay on October 12, 2011, 12:56:00 AM
I resharpen them just before the hunt, then check them during the hunt and redo if needed.
Title: Re: broadhead touchup
Post by: Coiloil37 on October 12, 2011, 01:27:00 AM
I check mine sporadically and hit them on the crock stick when required. Usually I take the same arrow out every time so it's the only one I have to sharpen every couple of hunts.
Title: Re: broadhead touchup
Post by: joe skipp on October 12, 2011, 03:35:00 AM
I'll touch up my heads as needed...check them periodically. Except the ones I just had Ron at KME sharpen for me.    :readit:

I cut myself twice already on those dam heads...   :nono:  

I touch my heads up with a 10 mil file and leather strop. In the field I use a carbide sharpner like the one Bear archery offered. does a quick job of putting a hollow ground edge on .
Title: Re: broadhead touchup
Post by: Terry Lightle on October 12, 2011, 08:24:00 PM
Whenever they dont shave,check them before every trip to the woods
Title: Re: broadhead touchup
Post by: Joe Q. on October 12, 2011, 08:47:00 PM
I keep one of the two sided DMT folding hones in my quiver.  If I get bored I tend to shoot at every critter that comes by so I tend to do a lot of "in the field" touch-ups. LOL
Title: Re: broadhead touchup
Post by: Tom Leemans on October 13, 2011, 10:59:00 AM
If I pull one out and it doesn't "catch" on my finger nail when I drag it like a wood scraper, a few strokes with the weight of the file only.
Title: Re: broadhead touchup
Post by: Doc Nock on October 13, 2011, 08:57:00 PM
After buying the Tusker KME Sharp heads, they're hard enough steel, they STAY sharp.

I test them regularly, but a strop over the cardboard Ron suggests usually does it. For serious "touch up" a couple licks in the BH Pro on each stone... and BAM...

How fast can you find the band-aids!