With a heavy longbow the old hard plastic bludgeons worked pretty well. With lighter bows, HTMs are not really suitable, but 160 steel blunts have always worked, so far, but most of my pheasants are shot while I am deer hunting. No dog then, so I use broadheads. The cocker that I had, my best buddy for 12 years, died this year. When I would shoot a pheasant, the first thing he would do is rip all of the feathers off the arrow, one at a time, every time. He would then bring the arrow back to me and leave the pheasant, until I took the arrow from him. Cocker spaniels are crazy, now I have one that is scared of loud noises and has fleas.