I'm not exactly shy about the fact that my favorite commercially made small game point is the Ace Hex Head. The real advantage to them over regular steel blunts is the sharp, dished edge and how it grabs animals.
Two years ago I went o Ontario for a moose hunt. I brought enough supplies to make several dozen small game arrows. There were a lot of rouse around, and I intended to hunt them. With Hex Heads, even if I hit the birds off center, they’d still grab and penetrate enough to leave the bird about mid shaft. More times than not, the birds would hit the ground stone dead.
One evening back at camp, after having lost a bunch of arrows, I decided to make another dozen. There was a pack of regular steel blunts in my gear that I’d bought quite a few years ago but never used, so I figured I may as well put them to use.
The next day I got into a lot of grouse. If I hit a bird dead center, the results were the same as with a Hex Head: dead bird half way up the shaft. But if my hit was slightly off center, the arrow would skip off, knocking the bird silly. After running down and finishing off my second or third grouse from such a hit, my guide and buddy, Ted, asked me what the heck I was shooting those birds with. He noticed the difference too.
I told him about switching points, and he responded by telling me to throw the regular blunts in the trash and go back to using “those good heads”. So that’s what I did, and I went right back to clean kills and no more chasing wounded birds.
Topic: Small game with blunts (Read 920 times)
