Heads for small game

[Matt Quick]

I’ve used a bunch of different ones over the years and the best one is cheap and you make it yourself. Take a field point and blunt the tip slightly. Use a Dremel tool or hacksaw and cut a slot in the field point. Hot melt a sharp bleeder blade in the slot and you are done. I got this idea from the old Magnus blunt cut. They were expensive at $9 for three so they weren’t cost effective for serious small game hunting. I don’t really hunt rabbits but I have killed a bunch of squirrels with this head. The rabbits I have shot always fold a lot easier than a squirrel.

                  ******Please do not use plain field points or judos******

[trad_bowhunter1965]

here's some of my small game heads

[trad_bowhunter1965]

[Jason W]

You can always use our “white tip” heads for small game!

[Pat B]

If you use wood arrows one of the best I've used and one that is cheap and easy is a "nutter", a 3/8" hex nut threaded on the point taper of the shaft. It not only gives you the shock factor of the nut but penetration of the pointed end of the shaft. I usually have about 1/2" or so point beyond the nut and I strengthen the wood point with super glue. I've hit squirrels with Judo points and had them run off. Every squirrel I hit with a nutter died almost before they hit the ground.

[reddogge]

Here's a few rabbit heads I made out of old broadheads. They broke randomly, hence the different shapes. There is also a barbed blunt. Our problem was rabbits running off after the arrows fell out of them.

To add insult to injury I apparently have lost or misplaced all of the above but the blunt, probably during my move in 2017. I spent a day looking for them for a rabbit hunt last weekend.

[Jason W]

All this chatter about small game heads got me thinking...

[evgb127]

Wow Jason. I like the look of that blunted broadhead a lot.  Will you have those up for sale on your website? 

[Jason W]

Wow Jason. I like the look of that blunted broadhead a lot.  Will you have those up for sale on your website?

I am defiantly thinking about it. They wont be anything special. I am just going to clean up some “rejects” that were not good enough to move on to the coating and sharpening.
The paint is not going to be Cerakote. It would cost too much for a head you are going to beat up.
If you guys want these, I will get cracking on it and make a bunch. I will not put the inserts in. I will leave that up to you guys to make them the weight you want.

[supernaut]

Jason, you are the man! I got my answer for the small game head I'll be using, thanks my friend.

[Terry Green]

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