Broadhead

Dan bree · December 10, 2013, 11:00:00 AM

Any body remember or shoot or even take any game with the serpentine broad head. The apple corer .

Pat B · December 10, 2013, 11:27:00 AM

I have one but I don't think I'd use it on game.

Bowwild · December 10, 2013, 12:17:00 PM

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.

Dan bree · December 10, 2013, 12:45:00 PM

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.

todd smith · December 10, 2013, 01:17:00 PM

Still remember the ads...

jrchambers · December 10, 2013, 01:20:00 PM

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

Dan bree · December 10, 2013, 01:35:00 PM

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

Bill Carlsen · December 10, 2013, 06:08:00 PM

I bet those Seprntines would be great for squirrels.

December 10, 2013, 06:58:00 PM

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.

legends1 · December 10, 2013, 08:18:00 PM

I have one in my collection, but wouldn't hunt with it.

December 10, 2013, 09:12:00 PM

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

ChuckC · December 10, 2013, 09:19:00 PM

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

Stumpkiller · December 10, 2013, 09:27:00 PM

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.

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.

ChuckC · December 10, 2013, 09:37:00 PM

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

Jon Stewart · December 10, 2013, 09:41:00 PM

I found a stone point out west that was knapped spiral called a Pandale.

ChuckC · December 10, 2013, 09:52:00 PM

Jon.. pictures ?
ChuckC

Jon Stewart · December 10, 2013, 10:35:00 PM

I can send you a hard copy. I just can't figure how to do pictures on the internet.

ChuckC · December 10, 2013, 11:00:00 PM

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

Jon Stewart · December 11, 2013, 09:24:00 AM

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

tradarcher816 · December 11, 2013, 12:47:00 PM

Wow never heard of them before today , weird looking head.