How sharp is a sharp broadhead?

[J-dog]

Whn you are truly scared to remove them from the quiver!

J

[Steertalker]

Nyamazan,

There is a test that no one has mentioned yet and it is the one I use and believe to be superior to the shaving or rubberband test.  Hold your BH edge against your thumbnail at about a 45 degree angle.  Applying just the weight of the BH drag the BH in a direction that is perpendicular to the blade orientation.  In other words, pretend you are trying to shave hair off of your thumbnail.  If the BH edge bites or catches into the thumbnail with just the weight of the BH.....it is sharp.

I don't like the shaving test because even a dull BH will shave and the actual shaving process dulls the edge that I have worked so hard to achieve.

Anyway...just thought you might be interested.

Brett

[joebuck]

If you can shave your FACE.......  :p  not your arm....your FACE.....try it..let me know how you come out

[swampbuck]

There ya go joebuck LOL thats what I'd say too and there is a big differance between face shaving and arm shaving

carbonarrow    :confused:    :confused:    

No blood trail ??does that mean ya just walked over to where ya saw the deer fall over??I've only seen that with a high entrance and no exit.....that deer only traveled 30 yrds but I never found a spec

[Steertalker]

Joebuck,

I agree with you....you definitely have a point there     But again...why dull your BH that you've worked so hard to get surgically sharp by shaving your arm or face???  My test will not damage the BH's edge.

Carbonarrow,

When you opened those deer up.....what did you find inside????

Brett

[Jeremy]

Carbonarrow,

Biology 101: A sharper instrument (knife, scalpel, razor, bh, etc) makes a cleaner cut which bleeds MORE and clots SLOWER than a cut made with a dull instrument.  That's not an opinion, just medical fact.

If there was no blood trail there's something else at work, not that the bh was too sharp.

In the past I was satisfied with setting the edge with a fine file and polishing it with a soft Arkansas stone.  The difference in performace going from that edge to one polished on a black Arkansas???

My kitchen knives (the ones I let my wife use) are sharpened up to a soft arksansas.  They'll finely slice through flesh (and tomatoes) with ease.  My good knives are honed up to the black arkansas... they'll slice through everything with less than the weight of the blade.

[Shawn Leonard]

Carbonarrow that statement does not make sense. A dull or jagged cut seals up much quicker and is less likely to leave a bloodtrail. ZJeremy hit the nail on the head. He knows, he makes a very fine knife and they are scapel sharp. I am very careful handling stuff Jeremy puts an edge on. I get mine as sharp as i can and shave hair with them. Shawn

[baretraks]

you can always tell when huntin season is rolling around..... me and my buddies all have bald arms.... I sharpened a bunch of stuff for some friends one year and ran out of arm hair.... had to start on my left calf!!!