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Author Topic: All-time Favorite Small Game Head  (Read 1305 times)

Offline Bowspirit

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All-time Favorite Small Game Head
« on: March 27, 2007, 10:01:00 PM »
Well, it's been awhile since we had a good poll, and I figured this is one that would get alot of good, varied results. Now, if only I could set it up properly...
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Offline Shawn Leonard

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Re: All-time Favorite Small Game Head
« Reply #1 on: March 27, 2007, 10:15:00 PM »
I voted for judos, but I would have to say Ace Hex heads are equal in my book, just for different reasons. Shawn
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Re: All-time Favorite Small Game Head
« Reply #2 on: March 27, 2007, 10:20:00 PM »
Curious, why the Judo's? Is it because they're so hard to loose?
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Offline longstiks

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Re: All-time Favorite Small Game Head
« Reply #3 on: March 27, 2007, 11:05:00 PM »
I voted for the Ace hex heads too.
Denny
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Offline ChuckC

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Re: All-time Favorite Small Game Head
« Reply #4 on: March 27, 2007, 11:13:00 PM »
I have been using only nutters since reading about them a few years ago.  I have had excellent luck using them.   Course, I always follow up with my Shrew hawk.
ChuckC
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Offline j yenney

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Re: All-time Favorite Small Game Head
« Reply #5 on: March 27, 2007, 11:21:00 PM »
I have used all of them and I still have to go with the old rubber blunt. They are easy to find and don't go thru animals but they still give a quick kill.
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Offline Scott S.

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Re: All-time Favorite Small Game Head
« Reply #6 on: March 27, 2007, 11:49:00 PM »
I like an old small game head that I don't think is made anymore.  If I recall correctly, they were by Saunders.  They had a sharp, solid conical point in front of big, flat, blunt face.
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Re: All-time Favorite Small Game Head
« Reply #7 on: March 28, 2007, 05:40:00 AM »
My vote is for judo's also, i like hex but to many times i have had them break the tip off my arrow. The judo seems to hit good and you can recover your arrow in one piece.
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Offline Bowspirit

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Re: All-time Favorite Small Game Head
« Reply #8 on: March 28, 2007, 01:09:00 PM »
I have to admit, I chose the cut-&-crush style of blunts, mostly because I think they're the most lethal. I just don't think you can beat the Magnus blunt, or a homemade version of it...
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Offline JBiorn

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Re: All-time Favorite Small Game Head
« Reply #9 on: March 28, 2007, 01:54:00 PM »
I personally just use some old broadheads that are dull. They seem to work really well.

 Jeff
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Offline ZaneD

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Re: All-time Favorite Small Game Head
« Reply #10 on: March 28, 2007, 02:26:00 PM »
i really like simple blunts better, but i voted for judos because they will get the job done and you won't lose the arrow
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Offline Tom Uselding

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Re: All-time Favorite Small Game Head
« Reply #11 on: March 28, 2007, 03:26:00 PM »
On the ground - field points, in trees - blunts and judos.
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Offline Brian Krebs

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Re: All-time Favorite Small Game Head
« Reply #12 on: March 28, 2007, 08:41:00 PM »
If you ask the question: "do you think about sharks very often?" ; you are going to get geographically oriented answers- and the same is true of this question.
 A person that goes to the beach each day is just going to answer differently than a person that has never seen the ocean.
 In Michigan; I used broadheads on groundhogs; I used judos for other small game; and for practice.
 So- my 'Michigan answer' would be judos and broadheads.
 Now I live in Idaho; it is the land of rocks and rocks.
 And more rocks.
I couldn't shoot an arrow more than one time at most small game here in Idaho.
 There is a 4 grouse a day limit - right during elk and deer season; and I don't carry a quiver full of judos ( which is what I would need in this envirnment); I take one rubber blunt with me.
 I can hit a grouse; or miss and hit a rock and still have an intact arrow.
 I have had friends come here and use judos and other hard heads; but they are always happy when I give them a rubber blunt.
 If you see a groundhog sitting on a hill of dirt; hey- thats a situation for a broadhead; but if you see a marmot sitting in a crack in a rock wall- a rubber blunt aimed at its head: is much more logical.
  right!!? !!  :campfire:
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Offline JBiorn

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Re: All-time Favorite Small Game Head
« Reply #13 on: March 28, 2007, 08:43:00 PM »
Good point Brian.

 Jeff
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Offline Bowspirit

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Re: All-time Favorite Small Game Head
« Reply #14 on: March 28, 2007, 09:41:00 PM »
A good point Brian. Yeah, I know there are certain aspects of the survey that are questionable, like the fact that I don't consider stuff like big groundhogs small game (To me, once a broadhead is the ONLY thing you can use to ensure something's death, they stop being small game). But, I was just curious as to everyones overall favorite small-game head. Plus if a certain type stands out among the rest, then I figure that's incentive enough to buy em and try em...
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Offline SteveMcD

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Re: All-time Favorite Small Game Head
« Reply #15 on: March 28, 2007, 09:44:00 PM »
Ace Hex Heads!
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Offline Brian Krebs

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Re: All-time Favorite Small Game Head
« Reply #16 on: March 29, 2007, 01:02:00 AM »
Bowspirit
  Its interesting to know what heads are the most popular; I would hate to see people hunt without thunkin on the variables a bit  :)
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Offline Bowspirit

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Re: All-time Favorite Small Game Head
« Reply #17 on: March 29, 2007, 03:25:00 PM »
Point taken Brian. This is just a basic question for fun's sake. You're right though. There are alot of variable to consider when using a small-game head. Not just geography, either...
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Re: All-time Favorite Small Game Head
« Reply #18 on: March 29, 2007, 04:49:00 PM »
field points for sure...havent lost a squirrel in years...plus there cheap...broadheads worked great too but I also lost alot of arrows...rubber blunts simply didnt kill very good most everytime the squirrel just got up and ran up the tree after being hit...lol...if I were to use any blunt it would be a metal blunt
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Offline Doug S

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Re: All-time Favorite Small Game Head
« Reply #19 on: March 29, 2007, 06:13:00 PM »
1 year I took those tips from the "interactive archery" screen shoot (rounded heads) and put a grasshopper behind it. I killed 4-5 critters with it. Including a Ground hog in the head.
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