small game heads

Spectre · January 23, 2011, 10:53:00 PM

QuoteOriginally posted by J. Oles:
Those Tuskers look pretty wicked.

Just old broadheads used here for bunnies!

+1. And skwerls, 2.

loneviking · January 23, 2011, 11:12:00 PM

I'm coming back to archery and hunting after about thirty years being gone. What I find odd is that I can't find any of the tiny broadheads that used to be around in the 70's. They were about the size of the little, flint birdheads. They had two, very sharp blades. I sure wish I still had some of them around or that someone would make them again.

Judos' work, but what a mess they can make!

Kenneth · January 23, 2011, 11:19:00 PM

QuoteOriginally posted by Spectre:

QuoteOriginally posted by J. Oles:
Those Tuskers look pretty wicked.

Just old broadheads used here for bunnies!
+1. And skwerls, 2. [/b]

Yep, but only ground shots as Pete mentioned. I still have a carbon arrow with a Tusker on it stuck about 20ft up a pine tree that didn't seem very high when I shot from my tree stand.

January 24, 2011, 01:40:00 AM

I never could see shooting my two blade Ace 125s at small game but I guess it would be better than decimating the little critter. (kinda what Pete said)

Not familiar with the "talons"...can someone post a pic?

Have used judos for a stumpin arrow but really never pursued small game that much.

ozy clint · January 24, 2011, 03:46:00 AM

that's not a blunt, this is a blunt!

home made of course! they are 2" wide.

these things have increased my hit and kill rate on rabbits by a mile. i got sick of just missing them or taking fur off. just graze them with these and it makes a cut big enough to drop their guts out.
i shot a rabbit just yesterday with one. it was sitting right on the edge of a big blackberry bush at 20m. when i went to pick up my arrow i found where it had run into the bush. it was marked by it's guts snagged on the thorny blackberry canes. it made it about 2m into the bush.
so i guess you don't follow the blood trail with these things, instead you follow the 'entrail'

LOL

January 24, 2011, 04:07:00 AM

Holy Creamola Batman!!
A two inch entry....

Imagine the blunt force energy with all that arrow behind it...beats the stuffins outta a traditional blunt...

Shoot a hog with that thing you would have to look in the next county to find him.

Prolly don't lose too many arrows tho..

lpcjon2 · January 24, 2011, 06:03:00 AM

Ozzy How much does that outboard prop weigh.

magnus · January 24, 2011, 07:10:00 AM

Macatawa.
Go to Stan M's post on page 1 and click on his link. Red Feather Archery also in the sponsors link. Deadly little head! I need more of them!

January 24, 2011, 07:12:00 AM

Thanks Matt...

Now THAT is cool! Great design

magnus · January 24, 2011, 07:17:00 AM

My pleasure! I don't recommend shooting them at squirrels in trees with normal fletching. That's how I lost all mine. Lol!

kibok&ko · January 25, 2011, 06:07:00 AM

QuoteOriginally posted by ozy clint:
that's not a blunt, this is a blunt!

home made of course! they are 2" wide.

these things have increased my hit and kill rate on rabbits by a mile. i got sick of just missing them or taking fur off. just graze them with these and it makes a cut big enough to drop their guts out.
i shot a rabbit just yesterday with one. it was sitting right on the edge of a big blackberry bush at 20m. when i went to pick up my arrow i found where it had run into the bush. it was marked by it's guts snagged on the thorny blackberry canes. it made it about 2m into the bush.
so i guess you don't follow the blood trail with these things, instead you follow the 'entrail'

LOL

ouch almost already cook ! great job with this home made blunt !!

one question please, what is the poundage of the bow ?

ozy clint · January 27, 2011, 02:32:00 AM

ipcjon2- it weighs 250gr. same as all my other points. they can be made to weigh whatever you want. you just have to vary the cut width and how much grinding you do to the point.
i just sent one to jeffB, he wanted one at 175gr.

kibok&ko- bow used was 54# with 610gr arrow

lpcjon2 · January 27, 2011, 06:57:00 AM

Ozy, can you show us how you make them?

Blaino · January 27, 2011, 07:52:00 AM

i havn't had a problem with the hex heads. i don't think our tree rats get as big as the ones up north though....

ozy clint · January 30, 2011, 11:15:00 PM

i shoot a 250gr point so i start with a 250gr or 200gr steel field point.

then i use a drill press and vice and i set up the point and drill a hole 90 degress to the axis of the point. you'll have to play with drill sizes for the rod you are using. you want it to be a press fit, just tap it in with a small hammer. i use 4mm welding electrodes.
after i drill the 1st hole i insert a rod through it and setup it up in the vice again so that when i drill the second hole it is 90 degrees to both the other rod and the axis of the point. i insert the 2nd rod then i put the point in the drill chuck and use a grinder to remove mass back to the weight i need while the drill press turns the point. you have to play with the width of the rods too to get the weight you need. with solid rod like this the lightest point you could get would be about 175gr. any lighter and you would need to use roll pins in place of solid rod, like these http://users.ncable.net.au/~woody/outback_sgb.htm

kibok&ko · February 03, 2011, 03:40:00 AM

Thank you OZY !