Anybody use these?How do you sharpen yours?How do they preform?
I use a file. There is a good segment on the TradGang DVD about how to sharpen. They fly great for me, but I've never had the opportunity when hunting to shoot at game with them.
I used them several years ago. They really do fly like field points but I had a time sharpening them. I killed one ole' big nose doe with one. The broadhead went thru her so fast I thought she ducked it. She just bounced off like I missed her clean. It wasn't until I got down and found my arrow that I discovered I had hit her. Forty yards later I found her.
So in my opinion here are the pro and cons:
Pros:
flies great, even in a cross wind
great penetration
has a lot of history with it
Cons:
hard to sharpen (for me anyhow)
expensive (compared to Zwickeys)
bends way too easy trying to remove from trees :rolleyes:
ferrel will crack near pin
Lots of folks use'em and love'em. If they don't work out for 'ya, you won't have a problem selling them.
We have shot dozens of deer with them. We have sharpened them with Dremel tools, files, carbide cutters and diamond sticks. I know all that stuff about the shaving sharp edge is suppose to be better, but I have not seen a difference in the effects when I sharpened them exactly as the directions from Ekin compared to when I got them shaving sharp. I have been using single bevels from tempered unground blades for a few years and I find those to be easier to get either style edge sharp, also, I believe that I have been getting slightly better and shorter blood trails from the single bevels. The trick with using the file is you have to have a dead steady stroke to have a nice flat filed surface, none of this roundy filing thing. I made a broadhead holder out of a chunk of one by ash with a trough that pockets the arrow and supports the blades, it helps to have the arrow held very steady for accurate filing. Only use new files, I prefer Grizzly files and Grobet files.
hey buddy do ya have a pic of the broad head holder? :thumbsup:
To each his own but they just look like you could do better with many other trad heads. I recall the Ashby file found they did not perform as well as others and broke up easily.
I'm very opinionated but for a change I agree with two different posts. It does look like you could do better with many other trad heads but I keep using the Hill style head because I have such great success with it. It will shoot great even with an arrow that is a little less than perfectly tuned. Like Pavan, I now make my own and I think the single bevel is probably better although I make them both ways.
Use a bastard file run it front to back( 6 firm strokes and then 2 light ones. If your not scratching the ferrul your dont have the right angle), till you have a saw tooth type edge and then go hunting. They fly great and do a fine job!
Chainsaw file to single bevel.
Certainly one can file them until it is a single bevel, but you lose a bit of the max width in the process.
I killed two deer with them last season, they are not my first choice but go well with my Hill :thumbsup: