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Author Topic: Improvising  (Read 909 times)

Offline A Lex

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Improvising
« on: March 28, 2020, 05:35:01 PM »
Well, with our new Covid-19 inspired health policy at work (and it's a good policy too), now that I have got a bit of a runny nose due to the change of season, I have had to stay away from work for a few days.

When one is feeling perfectly healthy other than a sniffle, that's not easy, so yesterday I went into my workshop with an idea for making some useful 160 grain blunts.

I usually use the Ace Hex Blunts, and reckon they are brilliant, but with our dollar the way it is, importing a dozen and a half 160 grainers would cost me well over $100 landed.

My bunny hunting mate, who uses a wheely bow, simply puts a hardened steel washer between his field point and the insert. That works really well.

So I got to thinking.....

Now I only use wooden arrows and glue-on points etc, so I put a 145 grain glue-on blunt in the lathe, and turned a step on the end to suit the hole in some thick 1/4" hardened steel washers I had laying around. I adjusted the length of the step so the altered blunt and the washer together weighed in at 160 grains. Then I silver soldered the bits together.



I mounted it up on a well tuned heavy Red Balau hardwood shaft and started shooting it to see how it shot and how it might last. The arrow weighs in at 825 grains and that, launched from my 75lb longbow, sure hits with authority.

After shooting it for an hour or so, bashing pine cones, tennis balls, coke cans, the ground, dry cow pies and a few thistles, it's been great. It shoots right where I look, it doesn't bury under the grass, and so far, it hasn't broken.

I'm really pleased with it.

So I made up another eleven "fat blunts" to give me an even dozen.

It only took me an hour and twenty minutes to make the other eleven, time well spent I reckon. It will take me much much longer than that to wreck them, and rest assured, I'll have fun trying to.

Best
Lex
Good hunting to you all.
May the wind be your friend, and may your arrows fly true,
Most of all, may the appreciation and the gratitude of what we do keep us humble......

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Re: Improvising
« Reply #1 on: March 28, 2020, 05:53:22 PM »
Very nice piece of work!  Plan to hunt bunnies with them?
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Offline A Lex

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Re: Improvising
« Reply #2 on: March 28, 2020, 06:00:54 PM »
Thanks Dave, and given the opportunity, absolutely  :biglaugh:

Lex
Good hunting to you all.
May the wind be your friend, and may your arrows fly true,
Most of all, may the appreciation and the gratitude of what we do keep us humble......

Offline Huntschool

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Re: Improvising
« Reply #3 on: March 28, 2020, 06:06:04 PM »
Cool idea.
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Offline fujimo

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Re: Improvising
« Reply #4 on: March 29, 2020, 01:15:18 AM »
awesome work.  :thumbsup:
but for those of us that dont have access to a lathe, and for a system thats kinda close in appearance at least, i like to use a .357 mag cartridge case, with lead melted into it to get to my required point weight!
they sure last well, and cost almost nothing.
 a great, cheap alternative!

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Re: Improvising
« Reply #5 on: March 29, 2020, 11:01:53 AM »
Proof again... That a mind, Is a terrible thing!!! :thumbsup:
I only shoot WOOD arrows... My kid makes them, fast as I can break them!

There is a fine line between Hunting, & Sitting there looking Stupid...

May The Great Spirit Guide Your Arrows..... Happy Hunting!!!

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