Zwickey broadheads

[Longbow58]

What is the difference in the Delta and the Black Diamond Delta? Saw the Black Diamond is of course black but my Delta's are green and both are the same dimensions. Any help appreciated. Looked on the Zwickey website and it doesn't even show the Black Diamond. Thanks!

[Orion]

Same head.  Black Diamond was a term applied to all Zwickey broad heads back in the day.  Don't believe it's currently used in its advertising, just the names of the different head styles. Don't ever remember there being a black delta, though there may have been.  They were green for a long time, then a bluish green for 10 years or so, and now green again.

[Jon Stewart]

I was thinking the same when I read a black Black Diamond.  They come in green and for a short time blue.

[ChuckC]

Yeah, as I recall and read, Zwickey made broadheads since the late 30's and early 40's.  They were called Black Diamond broadheads (brand name, not the color), and they came (then) as a barbed head, looking like the Cliff head does now.  

They morphed to the barbed head with the barbs ground off, to varying shapes and eventually to what we see now.  We have seen them in two basic sizes or rather styles, the Delta (circa late 50's)and the Eskimo (not by that name. since early 40's).  Prior to Fred making his own heads, Zwickey made the Bear broadheads.   Colors as stated above.
ChuckC

[LookMomNoSights]

The "black" head you were looking at,  may have been a Magnus....I forget the older Magnus model names,  but they had one that was shaped just like the Zwic Eskimo and one shaped  very much like the Delta.....very similar to the Zwics!

[Bob Gulliksen]

The very first Magnus heads were Zwickey. They were slotted for a bleeder blade and painted a dull black

[Orion]

Jack Zwickey spoke at our Wisconsin Traditional Archers banquet a few years ago.  He noted that Zwickey made broad heads for Bear before Bear came out with the razor head, and subsequently nearly put Zwickey out of business.  But he didn't indicate that Zwickey ever made heads for any other company.  Maybe the makers of the early Magnus heads copied the Zwickeys.

[Jon Stewart]

Zwickey made broadheads for Zwickey and no other company.  They did make a Black Diamond for Fred Bear but it was still the Black Diamond not the Bear head itself.
 I have one of the for Fred Bear Black Diamonds and it is a little darker green than the green heads produced today.

The very first Zwickeys were black, the new ones come in black and they had the green ones and the blue for a year or so.

Info came from the company  5 minutes ago.

[Bob Gulliksen]

In 1985 Mike Sohm,Magnus, bought Zwickey broadheads and slotted them for his own bleeder just like Mike Palmer and Fred Asbell did. Nobody said he made a special head for Magnus but he did make heads for Bear.