Squirrel points?

[KeganM]

Thanks guys! Brian, I picked up some 8/32" screws at Home depot yesterday, now I just have to put them together with some ashers and get the weight right. Have you tried putting two on, one behind the other?

Have to put an order in to 3Rivers... I think I'll pick up some of those converta points too!

Now if I can just find some tree rats to shoot at  

[Alexander Traditional]

Originally posted by Fastltz:
 http://www.3riversarchery.com/The+Forge+Converta+Blunt_i4914-1_baseitem.html  

these look just right. I may try some.

I just ordered some of these from 3Rivers. They look right to me to!

[johnnyk71]

a friend of mine gave me a Barta blunt (like 3 Rivers sells). this one is a screw-in version, though. that thing is wicked nasty. i've missed more squirrels than i've hit with it, but i knocked a couple of good holes in the stucco on the side of my house!      

[Brianlocal3]

Kegan,
you cant get the two wing nuts to sit right with two of them.  I tried that too.  

Here are some more I made up today. I used socket head bolts instead of pan heads this time

 

[Brianlocal3]

just to show the difference in ground and un-ground

[Bowjunkie]

For squirrels, I really like the Thundervalley Small Game Head (formerly Magnus). Basically a blunt with a broadhead bleeder blade inserted. It kills by both hemorrhage and trauma. They can be shot directly into hardwood tree trunks and they'll either bounce off, or barely stick in the bark. I thought they had quit making them altogether, but found out yesterday that they're back in production. I bought a dozen more :^)

[KeganM]

Thanks guys! I've been hesitant to sit in the stand for deer behind our house lately because I keep seeing a guy sneak in behind Walmart (50 yards from my stand and only 70 from my house). Takes a lot of the fun out of it. We've been seeing a lot of squirrel activity picking up though, and I'm itching to try my new bow on something tastey  

[LittleBen]

Who's property? Maybe it's time to talk to walmart, or the property owner

[Alexander Traditional]

I got my points in and figured I would take some pictures and bring this one back up.

[Oregon Okie]

I got those 3R screw on dealy's too and like em. Screwed a 100 gr field point for 175 gr.

[Alexander Traditional]

Yeah I ordered some more when I got them in Russell. I've got a 175 grain tip for a 250 grain total.

[stagetek]

Judo's.

[bendotwood]

Obviously broadheads work well if they're on the ground.  When they aren't though, I use plain steel blunts from 3 rivers.  With the blunts on 700gr cherry shafts fletched with 3X5'' Parabolics the squirrels go down fast.  If I shoot a spiral flu flu however, blunts don't do the job.  For this reason I opted for a point with more penetrating potential.  I now use a field point with an adder behind it.  I haven't shot a squirrel with this set up yet, but I tested it on a roadkill possum and it did great.

An added bonus to the adders is that they keep the arrow in the squirrel, makes it harder for it to run off...

[JC]

Red Feather Talons can be sharpened on a flat stone to get both a wicked clawed blunt and 3 cutting edges on the same head. Best small game head I've ever used.

I'll take the 3Rivers Hammer as a second choice....but only if stumping and don't want to dull the Talons or am out of them.

[tomsm44]

Haven't tried them but the Magnus small game head looks good.  Combines a blunt with a bleeder blade from a Magnus 4 blade.

[MacRae]

Sorry for the necro-post....but I thought I would share what works for me....

I use 5/16" ramin dowels or oak or whatever hardwood works for me...

I then glue on a .30 carbine brass casing.  I then cut a perpendicular slot in the top and insert a bleeder blade that I make from metal band material...I use an old bear bleeder as a template, but leave it solid.  I then pin and glue it in place.

I sharpen the tip....deadly.

To keep the cost down, I buy feathers by the hundred count.  I mark the cock feather with a blue sharpie....

I calculated the cost and it comes out to something like 1.50$ per arrow.  As disposable as an arrow can be....and deadly.

[Bowjunkie]

I use only Magnus Small Game heads and was freaking out when they sold the company, or part of it, because I couldn't find those heads for sale anywhere... Now they're making them again. I stocked UP! Just got a dozen more in the mail two days ago.

Thundervalley archery is making and selling them. THANK YOU!

They are a steel blunt with a Magnus bleeder blade inserted and I have shot a pile of squirrels with them. You can shoot them right into the trunk of an oak or cherry tree and they either bounce off, or barely stick by the tip of the bleeder and can easily be removedfrom  the tree. They sure do a number on squirrels and rabbits... with both shock and hemmorage. I got the last batch from FS Discount Archery.... but I bought all they had :^) so you'd better contact them before you place an order :^)

[bendotwood]

If you're shooting up the trees, then fluflus with rubber blunts are the only way to go.  Anything else will get stuck up there.

I have killed many squirrels with steel blunts, but like you, haven't been thrilled with their performance.  

I currently use a field point with an adder behind it for small game.  I haven't shot a squirrel with it yet, but I have shot a bird and a roadkill possum with them.  On the bird it was an instant kill, complete pass thru, dead before it hit the ground.  In both tests it achieved enough penetration to kill, and the adder tore a nasty hole going in.  An added bonus to them is that if you don't get a pass thru then the adder acts like a barb and keeps the arrow in the critter, makes it a little harder for them to run up a tree.

Just my 2 cents.

[Danny Roberts]

Nothing but Judos !