Need Low Cost Broadheads For Ground Hogs

[cloudbaseracer]

I have an almost daily ground hog "hunt" in my yard.  I am trying to kill as many as I can as they do so much damage. In fact I shot one today but I had missed him several times before.  Those suckers are super tough and will run off with an arrow in them and crawl in their hole before they die.  

I busted up my last broadhead today on a missed shot and now need to find a source for some low cost ones.  I have tried blunts and Judos but they do not work.  They just bounce right off. The only thing that works is a broadhead but I will not use my nice Magnus Stingers.

Any ideas where to get low cost, durable 125 or 150 grain heads?

Thanks,
James

[Brently]

Raptor Archery has a box of used broadheads on his counter, $2 bucks each, various brands.  He also has some used Bear broadheads on his web site.

[SKITCH]

Make them!!  

 http://tradgang.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=042164

[Ryan Sanpei]

What about these small game thumpers from VPA?

 http://rayzor-vpa.com/VPA-SGT-Small-Game-Thumper-Screw-In-3pk-VPA-SGT-S.htm

[Cyclic-Rivers]

use old compound broadheads.  Usually they are all over Craigslist.

some guys,like their bows, will upgrade equipment every year.

[2nocks]

bodkins or MA-3s.

[Red Beastmaster]

I use whatever comes my way free or cheap.

Most everyone who knows me is aware of my groundhog obsession. Anytime they come across free broadheads they give them to me. Replaceable blade types work just as well as the more "trad" styles.

Many bowshoots will have swap meets where you can buy/sell/trade most anything. My best purchase was 4 dozen MA-3's & Bodkins for $5. I am always on the prowl for cheap hog heads.

Pulling broadheads out of a groundhog is not easy. When the broadheads are cheap it's not a hard decision to just unscrew the shaft and let the hog keep it.

Your are right, a blunt will normally just bounce off. It takes a broadhead to kill them.

I was hunting the other day and saw a freshened hole. There in the dirt pile was 1/2 an aluminum arrow with my rusty Bodkin. A big hog took it down after a good hit last summer. When a new hog moves into a hole it will push out all the old arrows.

My 200th kill took the arrow down the hole and I was bummed about it. I wanted it for my collection. I came back a year later and there was my arrow, pushed out after spring cleaning. Cool.    

When you lose every other broadhead down the hole you might as well use something cheap.

[flyne]

In Australia u can buy 100pc new 145 or 160 grain ribteks glue ons off **** for. $100
Cheers Jim

[Archie]

I've got a couple dozen brand new Bodkins I'd sell you.  Don't know what they're worth.  A buck or 2 apiece?  PM me if you're interested.

[Biathlonman]

Glue on or screw in?  I've got a pile of old heads I'll we'll you cheap but most are glue on.

[cloudbaseracer]

I use screw in as I shoot carbon arrows.

[Paul_R]

The Forge Converta Blunt

[T Sunstone]

I had the same problem so I decided the next one I was going to shot in the head.  12 yards and never moved.

 

[Red Beastmaster]

Glue ons are fine, just mount to adapters. I have more in adapters than I do in B-heads.

T Sunstone, nice job! I always carry a blunt for a finishing shot to the head. You have to shoot them quick before they chew up your arrow.

I was caught unprepared on my last kill. All I had with me were target points and a couple blunts. It wasn't pretty but it got the job done.

[Chuck Jones]

Loved to hunt ground hogs when I was a teenager. My first "big" game animal with a bow. Used a Pearson Deadhead.
They are so rare now, that I won't shoot one anymore. I guess the coyotes ate em all.

[coaster500]

A sharp field point over a wingnut.......

[Stumpkiller]

Watch ****.  I bought a dozen Hi-Precision three-blade heads for $1.50 each.  c.1961

 

My whitetail heads this fall will be Mowoc Dots I paid $2.50 each for.  c.1960

Humph.  I guess I'll have to say watch auction sites and classifieds.