Hi everyone,
My favorite small game head is those big rubber blunts that you slip over an untapered shaft. The only problem with them is sometimes I break an arrow right behind the blunt, and there's a chunk of wood left stuck inside. I'm having a heck of a time getting it out so that I can reuse the heads. Does anyone have any tips or tricks?
Screw a small wood screw into the broken shaft in the head and then use the screw head to grip with pliers and pull out the broken piece.
I can never get my arrows out of rubber blunts, broken or not. I just have to cut the rubber off the arrow. If there is some other way, I am very interested.
Try dipping the blunt in boiling water, but only the blunt. Soften it up good and yank it off with an oven mitt.
If it's a softwood shaft, it's really pretty easy.
Simply lay it on a hard surface and smash it with a mallet or length of 2x4 until the wood is broken up.
You can then pull out the pieces with a needle nose pliars.
You can also smash it in a vice.
what charlie said. I split mine with a screwdriver, then twist it and pull.
QuoteOriginally posted by Charlie Lamb:
If it's a softwood shaft, it's really pretty easy.
Simply lay it on a hard surface and smash it with a mallet or length of 2x4 until the wood is broken up.
You can then pull out the pieces with a needle nose pliars.
Finally something I'm qualified for!
Drill a small hole in the bottom of the blunt so you no longer have a vacume, should pull right out.
use a wood screw.
You heading to Eureka on Friday? See ya at the barn-hope the dove hunters stay closer to town.
Thanks for all the suggestions, guys. They are cedar shafts, and most of them are already sort of splintered. I'm not sure a wood screw will hold. I bet the "smash it" technique will work, though (and be fun!) Raminshooter, thanks for the idea regarding the vaccuum also.
Roadkill: I'll see you Friday, probably noonish. :D
Charlie and Raminshooter have the best ideas and ya can combine davids with RS's and have good results. Shawn
Smashing the derned things sounds fun right now...even if it doesn't work !
ChuckC
N if Skip dont get here pretty soon,We aint gonna get there,till Friday,probly noon ish either.Cmon already Roadkill!!!!!!!
Got THE easy way to remove them--just did two this morning. Microwave them for about 10 sec.--long they will burn. They just slide out with no effort, or even pop out on their own due to air pressure. Do use pliers as they are HOT.