Rubber Blunts Popping Through

[YosemiteSam]

I'm sure there's some good fodder for innuendo there but I'm going to move past it for now...

I put some slip-on rubber blunts onto my woodies and within a few shots, the tips are poking out the front of them.  I use steel woodie weights on the front of my arrows and just put on the blunt instead of a field tip since they weigh about the same.  Should I have mounted these with the shaft cut flat or with some sort of flat tip so that they can't pop through?  Or is this just what to expect with these kinds of heads?

[Possum Head]

I use to use steel blunts under mine. A little hot melt will help cushion the arrow’s forward enertia. It can be applied at a temp that won’t compromise the rubber. Eventually they will fail. Lots of fun though!

[Bill from NJ]

Attach a .38 brass case with little hot glue.

Then put on your rubber blunts.

[Possum Head]

Attach a .38 brass case with little hot glue.

Then put on your rubber blunts.

[Ron LaClair]

square off your woodies or put steel blunts on with HTM's over. Don't think that rubber blunts are not killers, they are devastating on small game and can also inflict severe damage to a deer

[pavan]

I put rubber blunts over .38 casings, they come right to the weight that i want that way and don't poke through nor do they fly off, and yes over square cut shafts.

[TradBrewSC]

Agreed with all of the above, and pretty sure they were designed to fit over blunt heads and not field points.

Something like this:

https://www.3riversarchery.com/steel-blunt-arrow-points.html

[rufus_d]

I still have a bucket of HTMs that Henry Magar the designer and maker of them years ago gave me. He was an inspriation to us, he had rental bows for us kids back then, He would charge us whatever we had when we'd bike out to shoot his field course. He would say square up the end of the shaft and slide it on. They lasted forever or until we lost the arrow which was often.  good memories   

[hvyhitter]

9mm works too if you don't have a 38. Or stop by the local range ……..

[FlintNSteel]

Not all rubber blunts are created equal either.  I always found HTM's to be pretty solid and take a lot of punishment.  Bludgeon's very quickly had the shaft sticking through even if squared off.

[Wudstix]

I put rubber blunts over .38 casings, they come right to the weight that i want that way and don't poke through nor do they fly off, and yes over square cut shafts.

This is what I do but with 9mm casings; 6 0ne way, half dozen the other.

[Charlie Lamb]

Like Ron said, square them off. I like to spin them while pinching a piece of 180 grit emory cloth against the end of the shaft. It slightly rounds off the shaft which really helps.

Also like Ron said, rubber blunts are real killers. Often overlooked. i've killed a ton of small game with them.

[pavan]

A recurve shooter in SE MN, has killed turkeys with them with a nickel glued on the front.  Our area biologist swears by them for turkeys.  When I stated that it would take a head or neck hit with a 9/16" blunt,(which is legal in Iowa). He said to hit them square in the wing and a decent bow will do the job.  A few years back a hunter where was hunting turkeys killed a turkey with a screw on bludgeon, I imagine a nickel fortified HTM could do about the same.  I use Herters four blades for turkeys myself.