How to attach blunts to woodies

[wharvey]

Greetings All,

I have some rubber blunts that are designed to be attached to non-tapered shafts.  I plan to glue in some lead shot to up the weight. My question is how to attach these to the shafts.

Can I use the normal hot glue. I don't think the points would hold up to the necessary heat to melt the glue.  Epoxy? Fetching glue?

Thanks in advance.

[celticknot]

They should just slide on your shaft and hold just fine depending on how much lead your putting in the blunt. Just make sure you have the right sized blunt for your shafts. Good luck and happy hunting!

[woodchucker]

How heavy do you want to go???

I believe the red plastic bludgons are about 60grs. If you glue on a 125gr. steel blunt,then slide the bludgon head over it,that would give you about 185grs.

[woodchucker]

You could also use 5/16" flat washers.

Put 1 or 2 (or even 3) inside of the rubber blunt,then slide it over the arrow shaft. I put a few on some 11/32" woodies a few years ago and was never able to get them off again. You might want to leave those arrows an extra inch or so longer,just in case you have to cut those blunts off later.

[wharvey]

My wife gave me 6 as a stocking stuffer. I think they are from 3Rivers with a claimed weight of 100 gr., actual weight is 97 gr. give or take a grain or two.  I am thinking about bumping them up to about 100 gr. but may leave them as they are since I plan to put them on some fairly light shafts. I just don't want to have them fall off.

I also bought some aluminum shafts that came with some plastic/carbon inserts. Used fetching glue on those since I didn't want to take a chance in heating them.  So far they haven't fallen off but they do worry me.

[Pat B]

I slide rubber blunts over the field point. That would give 225gr total head weight.

[john fletch]

I would NEVER put a rubber blunt over a field point.  It will punch through in no time.

If you want the added weight, get a tapered steel blunt, taper the shaft and then glue it on.  Then slide the rubber blunt over the steel blunt.  That will definitely give you some forawrd weight.  If you use them on flu-flus you will have even more drop to compensate for, but they will have a lot of shock power.

[longbowben]

Grind the tip flat on the field tip to get the weight you want,and it will not put a hole in the blunt.

[Jeff Cooper]

Bill,  Get some .357 casings and glue them to your untapered shaft, then slide the rubber blunt over that...gives you a weight right around 190 grains, and I call then wrecking balls for a very good reason.  Absolutely deadly on small game!  Jeff Cooper

[Stone Knife]

Put them over the top of a steel blunt, you don't have to worry about them falling off. After they have been on awhile you will have to cut them up to get them off.