BEWARE SHARP OBJECTS!!

barewithme · May 12, 2015, 07:24:00 PM

Just got finished sharpening my homemade small game broadhead I filed it, put it on a stone, then stropped on leather. Took one shot with it, pulled it out of the target then I went back in the shop, when I went to pick up my other arrow my hand was covered in blood, it was so sharp that it cut 1/8 inch deep and I didn't even feel it... I believe it's hunting sharp needless to say
Note to self: be careful around sharp objects.

Whitetail Addict · May 12, 2015, 08:39:00 PM

You got it hunting sharp for sure. You know something's sharp when you cut yourself and don't even feel it. :eek:

Bob

barewithme · May 12, 2015, 08:58:00 PM

Hopefully the vermin won't feel it much and run too far away

Slickhead · May 13, 2015, 09:04:00 AM

interested in seeing those homemade killers.

OregonTom · May 13, 2015, 09:14:00 AM

X2 what Slickhead said. Post a photo of your handcrafted broadhead. I have some basic metal working tools. I'd like to try your design out.

barewithme · May 13, 2015, 05:26:00 PM

I don't know how to post pictures but what I did was I took an old spoon lure that's about 2 1/2 inches long and ground out a tang that's 3/16" wide and 3/4" long and the blade width is 7/8" wide. I then put it to a bench grinder to add the single bevel, and finished off with a tanto tip.

Wudstix · May 14, 2015, 03:51:00 PM

Send me a couple. JK. Hope you heal fast.

Sam McMichael · May 14, 2015, 04:07:00 PM

barewithme, trying to pick up a broadhead by the sharp end works no better than trying to pick up a turd by the clean end. Be careful.

Whitetail Addict · May 15, 2015, 12:27:00 PM

I had an inguinal hernia surgery back in 1991. It hurt like heck, and what they gave me for pain had about the same effect on it as eating a couple M&M's would have. It was quite an ordeal just getting out of my recliner, down the hall to the bathroom and back.

Two days after the surgery, my ex wife got me set up with what I needed for the day, and had to go to work. Bow season was coming up, so I had her get my broadheads, file, and stone, so I could put a good edge on them.

I went to work getting them SHARP. Any movement hurt like heck, so I'd work a little, take a break, etc.

To this day, I don't know exactly how it happened, but the next thing I know, there's a heck of a gash on the underside of my right thumb, with quite a stream of blood running down my arm, and dripping off my elbow. Oh boy!

I'll bet it took me five minutes to get out of my chair, hobble to the bathroom and get some gauze wrapped around my thumb.

By the time I had the bleeding slowed up, there was blood all over the sink, and bathroom floor.

It hurt so bad where I'd had the surgery, that I couldn't do much to clean up the mess. Now I've got to hobble back up the hall to my recliner.

what I saw on the way up the hall, shocked me. I wish I'd get a blood trail like I followed back to my chair, on every deer I shoot. What a mess! Did I mention that the hall, and livingroom were carpeted?

I made it back to my recliner, which was covered in blood too, and put my broadheads back in their case.

I don't mean to horn in on your thread, just wanted you to know that you're not the only one.

Hope you heal up soon.

Bob