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Anybody use these?How do you sharpen yours?How do they preform?
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I use a file. There is a good segment on the TradGang DVD about how to sharpen. They fly great for me, but I've never had the opportunity when hunting to shoot at game with them.
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I used them several years ago. They really do fly like field points but I had a time sharpening them. I killed one ole' big nose doe with one. The broadhead went thru her so fast I thought she ducked it. She just bounced off like I missed her clean. It wasn't until I got down and found my arrow that I discovered I had hit her. Forty yards later I found her. So in my opinion here are the pro and cons: Pros: flies great, even in a cross wind great penetration has a lot of history with it Cons: hard to sharpen (for me anyhow) expensive (compared to Zwickeys) bends way too easy trying to remove from trees ferrel will crack near pin
Lots of folks use'em and love'em. If they don't work out for 'ya, you won't have a problem selling them.
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We have shot dozens of deer with them. We have sharpened them with Dremel tools, files, carbide cutters and diamond sticks. I know all that stuff about the shaving sharp edge is suppose to be better, but I have not seen a difference in the effects when I sharpened them exactly as the directions from Ekin compared to when I got them shaving sharp. I have been using single bevels from tempered unground blades for a few years and I find those to be easier to get either style edge sharp, also, I believe that I have been getting slightly better and shorter blood trails from the single bevels. The trick with using the file is you have to have a dead steady stroke to have a nice flat filed surface, none of this roundy filing thing. I made a broadhead holder out of a chunk of one by ash with a trough that pockets the arrow and supports the blades, it helps to have the arrow held very steady for accurate filing. Only use new files, I prefer Grizzly files and Grobet files.
Posts: 2557 | From: Iowa | Registered: Oct 2009
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To each his own but they just look like you could do better with many other trad heads. I recall the Ashby file found they did not perform as well as others and broke up easily.
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I'm very opinionated but for a change I agree with two different posts. It does look like you could do better with many other trad heads but I keep using the Hill style head because I have such great success with it. It will shoot great even with an arrow that is a little less than perfectly tuned. Like Pavan, I now make my own and I think the single bevel is probably better although I make them both ways.
Posts: 335 | From: Bartlesville OK | Registered: Mar 2007
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Use a bastard file run it front to back( 6 firm strokes and then 2 light ones. If your not scratching the ferrul your dont have the right angle), till you have a saw tooth type edge and then go hunting. They fly great and do a fine job!
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Certainly one can file them until it is a single bevel, but you lose a bit of the max width in the process.
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