ashby's tanto tip question

[KyleAllen]

Still playing with my grizzlies. I ground them down some and put the tanto back on them. If you just grind the 25 degree bevel, you end up with a thick unsharpened tanto. I dug around in ashby's reports but could not find what i was looking for. Are yall leaving your tips this way? I tried putting the 25 degree bevel on the tanto as well but ended up with a slight chisel point. So which is better? Shaving all the way around with a slight chisel point, or a pointy point that is not sharpened?

[Ragnarok Forge]

There are some pictures in his earlier reports that show the tip your looking for.

[30coupe]

I sharpen the backside of the tanto tip (not the bevel side). There is a tutorial on here somewhere if you do a search. I haven't used them on game yet, but they are wicked sharp (thanks KME). If you do it this way, you have a bit of double bevel at the tanto tip for a true cut on contact tip, then the single bevel takes over and spins through the flesh, according to Ashby. I know it works on foam targets. I think it will on deer too. I hope to test that this weekend.

[Onehair]

Leave them alone. They will shoot through anything you can drag out. I went back to Grizlies this year and am 4 for 4 on pass throughs. 3 went down in site and one doe ran about 150 yards. The others were 31, 55 and 75.

[KyleAllen]

onehair, so you are just beveling and leaving the tip as is?

[30coupe]

Here ya go:

http://www.tradgang.com/pdf-files/grizzly.pdf

This one is low tech, so you don't need to worry about buying equipment.  

[30coupe]

BTW:

I tried pushing Grizzlies through some tanned deerskin before and after sharpening the back of the tanto tip. It was an eye opener! Before sharp, I had to push pretty hard. After, they just kind of slid through! That's what I'm talking about!

Good luck! Those Grizzlies take a really nice edge.

[Molson]

I've shot my last seven deer with Grizzlies.  I like to leave the tip thick and turn just the tanto tip into a double bevel using a mill file and a steep angle.  All I do is make the back edge meet the front on the tip.  If you thin the tip too much, like turning it into a point, it can and will bend over on itself.

[KyleAllen]

30 coupe, thank you very much for the link. That is precisely what i was looking for. Been digging through reports all day with no luck. You're a life saver...or maybe ender for the deer