Pearson Dead Heads

[bowmofo]

Don't get me wrong I like the Dead Head very much,I was wondering why they are so darn expensive, and why aren't there any look a likes on the market    

[Lamplighter]

Go check the Carbon Express XT 4.  It looks alot like a Deadhead. U might need alot of insert weight.


 http://www.carbonexpressarrows.com/archery/broadheads/xt-4-blade

[Ray Hammond]

Deadheads haven't been made for years that I'm aware of..

They're expensive because not many are around and those that have them are either collectors or want to use them.

Unless I'm completely out of touch and someone is once again making them...and I'm just out of the loop?!!!!

[bowmofo]

the xt4 looks good but way too lite for my setup.   :mad:

[robtattoo]

Originally posted by bowmofo:
the xt4 looks good but way too lite for my setup.    :mad:  

Meh, looks like another German Kinetics knock-off to me....

[JamesKerr]

They are no longer being made. That said if you can find some they are some of the best broadheads ever made.

[hvyhitter]

They just were not made in the huge numbers that the bear greenies were. More people looking than finding so the price goes way up (esp on blahbay). Garage/yard/church sales and small junk shops are good places to find cheap. I got my half dozen.

[Steve O]

Abowyer Whitetail is a Deadhead on steroids IMO:



  Abowyer Whitetail

[Pon]

they are the best looking broadhead ever made IMHO

wish I have one

[LeeBishop]

I wish I had a bucket full of them. It's all I'd use.

I wish the new incarnation of Pearson would bring them back, but when a company is bought by three different groups that don't really have the same passion for the products that were originally made, they don't care to carry on the product lines or tradition.

From what I'm told by those I've been speaking with for the documentary film, it pretty much started with Brunswick back in the 1970s when Pearson was simply just another namebrand in their line of products. Started running the company and the image into the ground.

I wish Mr. Blackmon down there in Alabama would bring them back. The only place I have seen a Dead Head is CNCed into the wheels of a few of their compound bows.

If I were stupidly wealthy then I'd like to bring the company back to Arkansas and start over.

[vermonster13]

Maybe I'll put some more up in next year's St. Jude auction. I did a couple of sets a few years ago but they didn't bring as much as I'd hoped.

[rjackson]

How much are they worth?

[bowmofo]

$10.00 each and going up. still a bargain compared to some of the others

[59Alaskan]

Question on these:
I have some of the smaller deadheads (middle blade on hvyhitter's avatar).  I generally put them on my set-up for turkey.

I already am set for this fall, but what are people's general thoughts on using them for deer on 40-50# bows?  Just curious on opinions.

Don't know why they are so valuable.  I have gotten lucky on these smaller ones and snatched up a few.

From about 33 to 30 years ago that is all I used, the smaller Deadheads, I cannot remember one time that they did not produce either a pass through or at least full penetration. Of course, the same can be said for the deer I shot with the larger size. I still have a couple in my quiver. I like the blood trail I get with them, an advantage when hunting near tall grass areas. I am using one of two 52 pound Robertson longbows at 26 plus draw with 1918s or tapered cedars this year. In the wind I go for Schulz, single bevel Hills or Grizzlies.

[Gerardo]

A ben pearson video got me into traditional and those deadheads where love at first sight!!!!!

[joe skipp]

I have 7 Original Deaheads which I use along with these others...

 

[reddogge]

When they were common 45 years ago the big complaint about them was they whistled going downrange. At least that was the scuttlebutt among those I hung out with and that's why we didn't use them. Does anyone have any experience with them whistling today?

[Tucker]

Try contacting Robin Buck. He used to make a Deadhead replica that he called the Dreadhead.
Bucksrus@msn.com

[njloco]

Now careful Joe, you'll give yourself a flat tire !