Hilbre Broadheads

[Cyclic-Rivers]

Picked up 2 attached to arrows.

They look mean and with bleeder blades.

Can anyone tell me anything about them.

[Blackhawk]

I have a few left over from the 60's/70's when I think they came out.  That plastic ferrule was one of the weak parts and another was the point which had a tendancy to curl up after hitting bone or something tough.  

I never killed a deer with one (but sure they would do it).  They were fairly inexpensive and common, but being a Bear fan, I preferred the Razorhead.

[arrowslinger22]

I have some I got the same way.  They are pretty frail looking to me, like Blackhawk says.  Not sure I'd shoot anything alive with them.

[Night Wing]

Old broadheads. They look mean, but the tips will curl "easily". If it was me, I wouldn't bowhunt with them. I view them strictly as a very nice collector item in someone's broadhead collection.

[mahantango]

They are a dime-a-dozen around here. Literally come across hundreds a year. Would never use them for deer, but make good bunny heads. Must have been very popular in the 60's/70's.

[Ron LaClair]

They were fairly popular in the 60's probably because they "looked" so wicked. The nylon ferrule was their biggest weak point.

A buddy and I went on a bear hunt in 1964 and he killed a bear with a 4 bladed one. The shot was quartering away and the arrow didn't exit. When he dressed it out we found the the blades had came apart from the ferrule.

[Ric O'Shay]

I dug around and found one that I had kept over the years (decades). They were wicked looking, I guess that's why I bought them. I too found they were weak in design.

 

[Ron LaClair]

A feature that I think people liked was that you could just screw the head onto the shaft without having to glue it on.

[Owlmagnet]

Like Blackhawk, I was a Razorhead man, back in the day. But I remember at least two bowhunters telling me that they personally had nylon ferrules shatter and both attributed the reason for the failures to extreme cold. Those broadheads STILL look pretty mean, though.

I had some straight edged four blade and some concave ones when I was a kid. I shot a deer with one of the concave jobs. Supposedly they could be screwed onto a wood shaft without glue. I could never get them straight when I tried it.
One time, when I was 14 or 15, I was testing them by shooting an expired Herters catalog propped up with a stick stuck in a hole a drilled into it with my neighbors drill press. I stuck the first one in at about 15 yards and then took a few steps back.  The first hit slopped it back a bit, but it was still standing. The second arrow with the four blade Hilbre skipped off the Herters catalog went up and over the high lines that ran down the alley.  The mean old lady across the block that chased me with a garden rake, when Hansy shot her in the butt with a slingshot, was just going into her house. I almost yelled out but I could see that the arrow was either going to stick on top of her house or short of it and to her north a few feet. HOwever, it hit the cross bar of her clothes line and slammed into her white aluminum door about three inches below the glass right as she was closing the door. She opened and closed the door three times, looked around to see what made the noise before she saw the arrow stuck in the door right about at the height of her head. Then she freaked out thinking that I was trying to get even for when she mistakenly tried to kill me with her garden rake. I explained what happened and she was so relieved that it was just an accident that she made no further trouble over it.  The only problem was she did not want me to fix it and I had to look at that four blade hole in her door till after she died and someone else owned the house. The broadhead did not bend from all of its wayward travels that day.

[Blackhawk]

Pavan, that story was  

[Cyclic-Rivers]

Thanks guys. They do look mean bu t I thought they would be weak.  There were only two here so I will probably just look at them.  There were 4 or 5 greenies. hey are more likely to get some use.

[adkmountainken]

hey bro i got 5 or 6 if ya want to try a couple and save yours.