Any body remember or shoot or even take any game with the serpentine broad head. The apple corer .
I have one but I don't think I'd use it on game.
I remember them but thought they were gimmicky and wondered if they ever sold one to anyone but a collector.
My first concern with them was how to keep em sharp.
How would you sharpen them yes a gimmick head. With extreme helical fletch they would screw into yikes. Father of the single bevel. Idea. . No I don't think so.
Still remember the ads... :)
haha holy crap I have been thinking about a head like that. looks good for small game where you don't want a lot of penetration. I have been thinking about a head with a slight offset not helical where the blades would actualy be straight just offset a degree or so. like a mild offset fletch
I think someone made a three blade helical head . Ma three blade maby . How about the little shaver. That took razor blades or the 003s
I bet those Seprntines would be great for squirrels.
There was a Browning and I believe a Shakespere. I remember one of the guys had them and sort of got them sharper with a file. They whistled funny, but they flew straight. He shot a fork horn deer with one and got about four inches of penetration, I helped him find the deer. The next year, he got zero penetration and could not even find a blood trail. So he went to those copperheads with snaggy talon edge, he did not get much penetration with those either. I could not afford that expensive stuff, so I was forced to shoot through deer with Deadheads and Herters broadheads. What gets me, back then there were a number of guys that thought that shooting completely through a deer was not a good thing.
I have one in my collection, but wouldn't hunt with it.
I googled them and they are cool looking! Looks like a prototype to the Atom broadhead (which was a lso kind of a gimmick, IMO). I would not hunt with one but they are neat looking.
Bisch
They look neat in a collection. Got one on my wall. But they went away for a reason.
Also, I believe they are not legal in all states. I THINK that they are the reason some states have some words in their laws stating "the blades shall be of a single plane".
ChuckC
I have a couple and they do look great - but I wouldn't hunt them. Though if you could get or keep them sharp I have no doubt they'd be effective. Somewhere out in Youtube Land is a video of someone shooting pumpkins with one.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v169/Stumpkiller/Broadheads/HPIM2080.jpg)
The ones I think actually had a concept were the Spiral Killers. Came in left and right helical (and straight) three-edge heads that were well made.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v169/Stumpkiller/Broadheads/HPIM2091.jpg)
There were several versions out there in their day.
There were other broadheads that did some similar things, including several long lean three blade heads that had a steel ring built in somewhere near their base, to cut a core for better blood.
There were even some that were simply sharpened tubes, cut on an angle, that cut a plug and "allowed" for better blood flow.
ChuckC
I found a stone point out west that was knapped spiral called a Pandale.
Jon.. pictures ?
ChuckC
I can send you a hard copy. I just can't figure how to do pictures on the internet.
By hard copy are you meaning a photograph or an email picture ? If you send it as an email attachment, I can probably post it for you.
ChuckC
I meant a photo from Walmart. I have a couple of kind of rare points that I have found, the other of note is a Clovis. I took photo's and sent them on to others. I just can't grasp this computer thing. Too old to learn I guess,lol.
My wife has the ability to down load pictures and e-mail them. Maybe I will get her to do it. PM me your e-mail address. Jon
Wow never heard of them before today , weird looking head.
Pavin. Yes I remember when pass thru. Wasn't the best just stick um. Would. Cause more internal damage. Maybe but a bad blood trail . Don't what to start any trouble. But what about Fred and the pods
I have a buddy who killed a deer with a serpentine head many years ago--said it looked just like he had stabbed him through with an apple corer. Big hole and lots of blood.
Shot a couple of deer with them when they first came out back home in Utah, in the 60s or 70s. Not a good head at all but when you lived in Utah that is what you shot. At least in my circle of buddies and dad being a Browning rep at his shop in Salt Lake. Poor penetration and always a huge ball of hair as it cut its way in. Also I can't think of a head in the last 50 years that was as discouraging to get an edge on. Trying to get the right bevel on a 180 degree turn made one turn grey prematurely, but you are right, they do look cool.
I would never hunt with that head. Also another useless head comes to mind, it was the Black Copperhead Ripper.