Post by: Terry Green on June 06, 2024, 11:09:13 AM
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Post by: Wudstix on June 06, 2024, 11:13:22 AM
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Post by: Terry Green on June 06, 2024, 05:43:22 PM
Post by: Wudstix on June 06, 2024, 06:46:35 PM
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Post by: Hud on June 06, 2024, 07:40:31 PM
Post by: Stringwacker on June 06, 2024, 08:23:16 PM
I know this one isn’t that head; but it brings back some pleasant memories just looking at it.
Post by: Terry Green on June 07, 2024, 12:49:04 PM
One of my daughters evidently covered it up as they both moved out of New York City(THANK GOD) and they brought all their stuff from their apartment with them. Then we had a wedding this last weekend of my youngest with shower gifts everywhere. It will turn up soon and I'll post again.
Post by: Terry Green on June 07, 2024, 06:20:09 PM
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Post by: Terry Green on June 08, 2024, 08:20:34 AM
Post by: Stringwacker on June 08, 2024, 10:05:49 AM
Given the broadhead looked so much like the Missile Spike I couldn't hardly sleep that night thinking about what the Magnus connection was. I started the 'University of Google' research in depth to see what I could gather. The Missile Spike (and later its successor the "Red Fury") was owned by the same guy who was a Mr. Carroll. Mr. Carroll was also a pretty well known recurve bow maker at the time. From what I could decipher, the Red Fury was primarily a marketing ploy created by adding a red ring right behind the bleeder and it was sold in the 80's. The broadhead(s) were marketed in the 70's and 80's as a big game head. As i mentioned earlier, I used them after a fellow named Lucky King (self proclaimed Godfather of Howard Hill) recommended them to me and I took my first animal with a bow with one. Lucky had a small archery shop at the time.
The Magnus connection.....
Through a great amount of research it appears that Magnus in its most earliest days likely made at least the bleeders...if not the main blade for the missile spike. They both look like the same material. Though I never found anything but anecdotal evidence but it seems possible the Magnus might have made the entire head during this time. The fact that the broadhead is threaded (vs the carbon steel glue on broadheads that Magnus made at the time) is the interesting development if Magnus didn't limit themselves to the blades. Magnus has a history of partnering with the actual broadhead owners in the manufacturing process of broadheads.
Of course, this all borders on near opinion as much as anecdotal evidence. Magnus may had made and marketed the head at some junction though I can't find that. Terry if you know the Magnus history of this head I would love to bring it out of the shadows a bit just for my own knowledge. I could see Magnus marketing the head after Mr. Carroll's retirement as a smaller sized small game head. If this keeps bouncing around in my head, I probably will just call Mike at Magnus to get the history of all of this.
By the way, I'm good friends with Jerry's son as well and we used to live in the same small town. We visited each other quite a bit. I actually got to meet Mrs Betty (Jerry's wife) before she passed. I still see him once a year these days as he always attends a memorial archery shoot named after his dad at Enid Lake MS.
A lot of folks don't know that Jerry grew up in Union MS and I used to hunt quail on his Uncle's place back when I was a tweener. His uncle knew my fanatical interest in bowhunting and would tell me about his nephew "Oren" who was a pretty good bowhunter. Since nobody bowhunted in my small town that always stuck with me. Only later did I make the connection between Oren and Jerry. Everybody called him Oren down here is what I was told. He would write me a short letter from time to time (probably because of the Union connection) and I did get to meet him once at the 1992 Missouri PBS banquet.
Small world.
Post by: Terry Green on June 08, 2024, 12:16:48 PM
I will tell you one thing that I know for sure, and that is if you send me your address I will send you one if you don't have any.
Charlie texted, it is a Missle Spike.
Post by: Stringwacker on June 08, 2024, 12:57:34 PM
In my own regard, the most important thing isn't the broadhead; but the memory. I appreciate you bringing those thoughts of my early bowhunting days back up for me. I've always said that one day I will be too old to hunt; but through the memories....I can continue to do so.
Post by: Terry Green on June 08, 2024, 02:22:25 PM
When I came back from Laredo after 3 weeks the first time my wife saw me in the shower with all the spike marks and scratches she said "Why do you do that to yourself?" and I said "because I can,
... and one day I can't."
Post by: Otis55 on June 08, 2024, 11:34:14 PM
Post by: Terry Green on June 09, 2024, 03:04:20 AM
Post by: Terry Green on June 09, 2024, 10:54:15 AM
"Prototype Magnus blunt. The one with the shell casing is an old copy of a pope small game"( Charlie made)
Post by: Terry Green on June 09, 2024, 11:13:26 AM
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Post by: cacciatore on June 09, 2024, 01:33:49 PM
Post by: Terry Green on June 09, 2024, 06:20:34 PM
MORE TO COME.....
Post by: Terry Green on June 10, 2024, 09:39:54 AM
Vintage string silencers and brush buttons...
MORE TO COME....
Post by: Pine on June 10, 2024, 11:06:07 AM
Post by: Razorbak on June 11, 2024, 12:03:10 AM
Post by: Terry Green on June 11, 2024, 08:58:56 AM
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Post by: rainman on June 11, 2024, 10:04:43 AM
I used to shoot a broadhead just like it called a “missile spike” back in the 70’s. It was a very copied head design as it was called a “red fury” in later years. I harvested my first bowkilled animal with one….a gray fox in 1974.That is definitely a Missile spike. I started my hunting with them in the 70s. My brother was the first to buy them. He shot one into a cinder block at Toms archery when Tom told him to. Head and aluminum arrow both held up.
I know this one isn’t that head; but it brings back some pleasant memories just looking at it.
Post by: Charlie Lamb on June 11, 2024, 04:17:32 PM
I've let this thread go un answered for too long. I have been having computer problems and reply. The first pic is aMissle Spike broadhead. invented by my old friend C.F. Carrol. He was quite a character.tThat is about the third itteration of that head. The next being the Red Fury.
First version had a glue on ferrule.
One picture of the two small game heads is misidentified. Head on the left is the original Hoyt Magnum Blunt. Earl kept a coffee can full of them back in the shop.
As it turned out the blade was too fragile and the second generation addressed that problem.
Post by: Wudstix on June 11, 2024, 04:25:19 PM
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Post by: Charlie Lamb on June 11, 2024, 04:29:32 PM
Post by: Terry Green on June 11, 2024, 04:42:22 PM
BTW what is the history of the 4 blade above???
Post by: Charlie Lamb on June 11, 2024, 05:08:43 PM
Post by: Terry Green on June 11, 2024, 05:21:45 PM
Snake head nock.... that's what I'm calling it till Charlie chimes in....
Post by: beachbowhunter on June 11, 2024, 07:53:16 PM
Post by: Terry Green on June 12, 2024, 08:05:43 AM
Welcome back.
I have another entry I need to add....
Post by: Terry Green on June 12, 2024, 10:00:51 AM
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Post by: Charlie Lamb on June 16, 2024, 03:35:02 PM
Post by: Terry Green on June 16, 2024, 05:51:56 PM
I'll get a pic...
Post by: Terry Green on June 17, 2024, 09:32:44 AM
Post by: Russell Southerland on June 17, 2024, 02:49:00 PM
Post by: Sam Spade on June 17, 2024, 04:11:42 PM
Waiting for info on the Journey Man/Raptor head. Very neat thread guys!
Yeah, what he said. ^^^
Post by: STICKBENDER98 on June 17, 2024, 04:15:13 PM
Jason
Post by: Bamboozle on June 17, 2024, 04:39:49 PM
Post by: Charlie Lamb on June 18, 2024, 01:03:30 PM
Post by: Terry Green on June 18, 2024, 04:23:03 PM
Yeah, Raptor is what he called it. But it was basically a Journeyman serrated. For the life of me I can't remember the name of the guy who made those.
Still, great stuff Charlie. :thumbsup:
Post by: Russell Southerland on June 28, 2024, 11:51:41 AM