This thread has intrigued me from the beginning....thanks for posting it Terry.
Given the broadhead looked so much like the Missile Spike I couldn't hardly sleep that night thinking about what the Magnus connection was. I started the 'University of Google' research in depth to see what I could gather. The Missile Spike (and later its successor the "Red Fury") was owned by the same guy who was a Mr. Carroll. Mr. Carroll was also a pretty well known recurve bow maker at the time. From what I could decipher, the Red Fury was primarily a marketing ploy created by adding a red ring right behind the bleeder and it was sold in the 80's. The broadhead(s) were marketed in the 70's and 80's as a big game head. As i mentioned earlier, I used them after a fellow named Lucky King (self proclaimed Godfather of Howard Hill) recommended them to me and I took my first animal with a bow with one. Lucky had a small archery shop at the time.
The Magnus connection.....
Through a great amount of research it appears that Magnus in its most earliest days likely made at least the bleeders...if not the main blade for the missile spike. They both look like the same material. Though I never found anything but anecdotal evidence but it seems possible the Magnus might have made the entire head during this time. The fact that the broadhead is threaded (vs the carbon steel glue on broadheads that Magnus made at the time) is the interesting development if Magnus didn't limit themselves to the blades. Magnus has a history of partnering with the actual broadhead owners in the manufacturing process of broadheads.
Of course, this all borders on near opinion as much as anecdotal evidence. Magnus may had made and marketed the head at some junction though I can't find that. Terry if you know the Magnus history of this head I would love to bring it out of the shadows a bit just for my own knowledge. I could see Magnus marketing the head after Mr. Carroll's retirement as a smaller sized small game head. If this keeps bouncing around in my head, I probably will just call Mike at Magnus to get the history of all of this.
By the way, I'm good friends with Jerry's son as well and we used to live in the same small town. We visited each other quite a bit. I actually got to meet Mrs Betty (Jerry's wife) before she passed. I still see him once a year these days as he always attends a memorial archery shoot named after his dad at Enid Lake MS.
A lot of folks don't know that Jerry grew up in Union MS and I used to hunt quail on his Uncle's place back when I was a tweener. His uncle knew my fanatical interest in bowhunting and would tell me about his nephew "Oren" who was a pretty good bowhunter. Since nobody bowhunted in my small town that always stuck with me. Only later did I make the connection between Oren and Jerry. Everybody called him Oren down here is what I was told. He would write me a short letter from time to time (probably because of the Union connection) and I did get to meet him once at the 1992 Missouri PBS banquet.
Small world.
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