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Author Topic: Homemade broadheads  (Read 2195 times)

Offline Jegs.mich

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Re: Homemade broadheads
« Reply #20 on: September 05, 2024, 06:51:31 PM »
I think I would use a roll pin. I like the simplicity of your broadhead.
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Offline Kris

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Re: Homemade broadheads
« Reply #21 on: September 05, 2024, 09:58:41 PM »
Thank you for the explanation, Pat.  Really good stuff ...love it! 
I have circular saw blades staged for the same purpose.

Is there a certain property about the band saw blade steel that makes it better/more appropriate than circular saw steel?
I could imagine the circular saw steel being more ridged...too much so?  Metallurgy can be very in complicated, I know.
« Last Edit: September 05, 2024, 10:07:31 PM by Kris »

Offline Pat B

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Re: Homemade broadheads
« Reply #22 on: September 06, 2024, 08:51:04 AM »
These band saw blades are hardened steel, not so much that they can't be worked without annealing first. Older circular saw blades are hardened like the band saws but the newer ones, from what I've heard, are milder steel and only hardened out near the teeth. I've made good broadheads out of older circular saw blades. I've tried old hand saws but they are usually a bit thin for broadheads. IMO.
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Offline Doug S

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Re: Homemade broadheads
« Reply #23 on: September 06, 2024, 09:26:32 AM »

   Roll pin it is. I like that better....
     Thanks :thumbsup:
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Offline Doug S

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Re: Homemade broadheads
« Reply #24 on: September 23, 2024, 03:28:15 PM »

  First deer with broadhead. Busted the shoulder blade just started to poke out the opposite side. She went 45 yards fell over. No damage to the head except a small nick from busting bone. Never did put the roll pin in.
Felt great to kill one with my own broadhead.
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Offline Jegs.mich

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Re: Homemade broadheads
« Reply #25 on: September 23, 2024, 03:49:58 PM »

  First deer with broadhead. Busted the shoulder blade just started to poke out the opposite side. She went 45
yards fell over. No damage to the head except a small nick from busting bone. Never did put the roll pin in.
Felt great to kill one with my own broadhead.
congratulations Doug!
Psalms 127:3-5 New International Version (NIV)
Like arrows in the hands of a warrior are children born in one's youth. Blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them.

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