STOS broadheads

snag · May 14, 2008, 12:19:00 PM

I just received a 1/2doz 135gr STOS heads and tried them out this morning. The first impression is that they come with a tanto tip. Is that something new for them? I went to put one on a tester and there it was already. They fly great! Hit right where my field tips hit. They are keepers!

SlowBowinMO · May 14, 2008, 12:55:00 PM

They started taking the needle points off them sometime in '06 I think. Great broadheads, always seem to fly laser straight for me too.

peter c iacavazzi · May 14, 2008, 01:31:00 PM

I hear great things about the STOS. Any truth to the runor they will soon be available in a Tanto tip and a Single Bevel?

Thanks, Peter

JC · May 14, 2008, 01:40:00 PM

Peter, yes they are supposedly going to do a left hand bevel with potentially a right in the future. Their newer tips are not quite as "tanto'ed" as Doc Ashby likes, but they are easily modified. The 160gr version is definately the stoutest of their heads and very close to indestructible when you take the tip down a bit more.

Great heads, my quiver always has at least one.

peter c iacavazzi · May 14, 2008, 05:03:00 PM

JC,

Thanks. I may have to order a few!

Peter

snag · May 14, 2008, 07:00:00 PM

JC, do you take off another 1/16" on the tip on both sides for the tanto?

Bjorn · May 14, 2008, 07:09:00 PM

I used the 145 gr version with the conventional bi-bevel on a goat and a fair sized boar. Lots of penetration on both animals.
Nice to get a BH you can use out of the box!

Orion · May 14, 2008, 08:05:00 PM

I'm shooting 160 grain STOS. Really did a job on an elk last fall. Mine must be older because they didn't come tantoed. I do round the tip though. Excellent head.

Zbone · May 14, 2008, 08:11:00 PM

What exactly does "tanto'ed" mean? Tip clipped and rounded a bit? Anyone have a photo?

Wudstix · May 14, 2008, 08:27:00 PM

Might have to go back to STOS. Switched to Ribtek and Magnus for a better tip design.

Jaz · May 14, 2008, 08:28:00 PM

I just sharpened mine up for my bear hunt next week. This is the first time I've used them. I've always shot Magnus II, but I think I'm gonna switch to STOS. They are an awesome head. I can't wait to put one through a bear. The single bevel STOS is gonna be one deadly broadhead!

SlowBowinMO · May 14, 2008, 09:54:00 PM

Here's a tanto tipped STOS. They don't come like this but STOS takes off the needle point. I use a small file to take them down.

Zbone · May 14, 2008, 10:55:00 PM

SlowBowinMO - can you e-mail me that photo, I can't see it with the firewall on this computer.

thanx much

gary.czatt@windstream.com

SlowBowinMO · May 14, 2008, 11:15:00 PM

Here, try this Zbone.

STOS Tanto tip

I'll e-mail it too.

JC · May 15, 2008, 07:37:00 AM

Yup, slow bow has it....I do mine much the same way:

Downwind Lefty · May 15, 2008, 10:56:00 AM

I love my STOS heads, they fly great and penetrate just as well.

Why do you alter the tip - has anyone had issues with them rolling or something if they hit a bone or is it something else?

snag · May 15, 2008, 12:05:00 PM

Downwind, that is why the tanto tip is a good idea with any head. It gives a chisel tip that will prevent curling. Just a stronger tip....that's my understanding. Maybe someone else to add to this.

Bjorn · May 15, 2008, 01:02:00 PM

The regular 145 grain bi-bevel head has performed flawlessly for me on Pigs and a goat-lots of penetration.
A single bevel, and nibbling a bit off the tip and re-sharpening to a chisel shape would be added insurance on larger, tougher animals.

snag · May 15, 2008, 02:20:00 PM

Bjorn, these STOS heads have a date with a bull elk this year! I look forward to seeing how they perform.

mlmealey · May 15, 2008, 09:07:00 PM

Shot nine animals in Africa last July with the 145 excellent heads.