HH broadheads?

[3Feathers]

Anybody use these?How do you sharpen yours?How do they preform?

[kestimator]

I use a file.  There is a good segment on the TradGang DVD about how to sharpen.  They fly great for me, but I've never had the opportunity when hunting to shoot at game with them.

[SuperK]

I used them several years ago.  They really do fly like field points but I had a time sharpening them.  I killed one ole' big nose doe with one.  The broadhead went thru her so fast I thought she ducked it.  She just bounced off like I missed her clean.  It wasn't until I got down and found my arrow that I discovered I had hit her.  Forty yards later I found her.  
So in my opinion here are the pro and cons:
Pros:
flies great, even in a cross wind
great penetration
has a lot of history with it
Cons:
hard to sharpen (for me anyhow)
expensive (compared to Zwickeys)
bends way too easy trying to remove from trees   :rolleyes:  
ferrel will crack near pin

Lots of folks use'em and love'em.  If they don't work out for 'ya, you won't have a problem selling them.

We have shot dozens of deer with them. We have sharpened them with Dremel tools, files, carbide cutters and diamond sticks. I know all that stuff about the shaving sharp edge is suppose to be better, but I have not seen a difference in the effects when I sharpened them exactly as the directions from Ekin compared to when I got them shaving sharp.  I have been using single bevels from tempered unground blades for a few years and I find those to be easier to get either style edge sharp, also, I believe that I have been getting slightly better and shorter blood trails from the single bevels. The trick with using the file is you have to have a dead steady stroke to have a nice flat filed surface, none of this roundy filing thing. I made a broadhead holder out of a chunk of one by ash with a trough that pockets the arrow and supports the blades, it helps to have the arrow held very steady for accurate filing. Only use new files, I prefer Grizzly files and Grobet files.

[JEFF B]

hey buddy do ya have a pic of the broad head holder?  

[Legolas]

To each his own but they just look like you could do better with many other trad heads. I recall the Ashby file found they did not perform as well as others and broke up easily.

[Gordon Jabben]

I'm very opinionated but for a change I agree with two different posts.  It does look like you could do better with many other trad heads but I keep using the Hill style head because I have such great success with it.  It will shoot great even with an arrow that is a little less than perfectly tuned.  Like Pavan, I now make my own and I think the single bevel is probably better although I make them both ways.

[lpcjon2]

Use a bastard file run it front to back( 6 firm strokes and then 2 light ones. If your not scratching the ferrul your dont have the right angle), till you have a saw tooth type edge and then go hunting. They fly great and do a fine job!

[arrow flynn]

Chainsaw file to single bevel.

Certainly one can file them until it is a single bevel, but you lose a bit of the max width in the process.

[Stone Knife]

I killed two deer with them last season, they are not my first choice but go well with my Hill