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Author Topic: Best test for a ready to hunt broadhead  (Read 484 times)

Offline brackshooter

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Best test for a ready to hunt broadhead
« on: August 07, 2007, 04:53:00 PM »
What is the best test to determine whether a broadhead is ready to go hunting?  Shaving, paper, rubberbands, etc?  Have heard many different ideas, and wondering which ones you guys use.

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Offline oldgriz

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Re: Best test for a ready to hunt broadhead
« Reply #1 on: August 07, 2007, 05:01:00 PM »
I usually have bald arms when I am ready to use my heads...
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Re: Best test for a ready to hunt broadhead
« Reply #2 on: August 07, 2007, 05:18:00 PM »
My wife says you can always tell when hunting season is close, cause my legs have bald spots.  It grows back, right Griz?


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Offline bmfer

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Re: Best test for a ready to hunt broadhead
« Reply #3 on: August 07, 2007, 10:14:00 PM »
Jake, my forearms look the same!!
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Re: Best test for a ready to hunt broadhead
« Reply #4 on: August 07, 2007, 10:29:00 PM »
i got a few cuts by accident......my parents thought i was emo!!!!
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Offline Tom Leemans

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Re: Best test for a ready to hunt broadhead
« Reply #5 on: August 08, 2007, 06:01:00 AM »
When it works like a cabinet scraper on my thumbnail.
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Offline Curveman

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Re: Best test for a ready to hunt broadhead
« Reply #6 on: August 08, 2007, 06:10:00 AM »
Cut a rubber band effortlessly. Like an artery.
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Offline Mike Brown

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Re: Best test for a ready to hunt broadhead
« Reply #7 on: August 08, 2007, 06:44:00 AM »
My wife gripes about my hairless legs but she won't let me use hers.   :)

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Re: Best test for a ready to hunt broadhead
« Reply #8 on: August 08, 2007, 09:37:00 AM »
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My wife gripes about my hairless legs but she won't let me use hers.    :)  
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Re: Best test for a ready to hunt broadhead
« Reply #9 on: August 08, 2007, 09:38:00 AM »
When I drop it on the second floor and have to go to the basement to get it, it's sharp enough.
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Offline BTH

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Re: Best test for a ready to hunt broadhead
« Reply #10 on: August 08, 2007, 11:02:00 AM »
Rubberbands and shaving. I have bald spots on my forearms right now after sharpening broadheads for Africa.
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Re: Best test for a ready to hunt broadhead
« Reply #11 on: August 08, 2007, 11:13:00 AM »
Curveman is right, use a rubberband but don't stretch it too tight.
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Offline James Wrenn

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Re: Best test for a ready to hunt broadhead
« Reply #12 on: August 08, 2007, 11:21:00 AM »
I think cutting a rubber band easy is plenty sharp enough for hunting.I am like most of you however and not really satisfied untill I have bald spots on my arms and legs.  :)
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Offline C2@TheLibrary

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Re: Best test for a ready to hunt broadhead
« Reply #13 on: August 08, 2007, 11:40:00 AM »
Accidentally fall on it. If you feel it going in it isn't sharp enough.  :bigsmyl:
Ok in all seriousness, If they cleanly shave dry hair(the hair should either "pop" off or ball up) they are sharp enough to hunt with; but touch them up after testing by stroping them.

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