Well Pig Gig is over and there are still a few months before Bear Quest...so it's time to fool around with a new generation of hand forged broadheads. Over the past few seasons, I've made heads for hafting to wood shafts and ones with tangs to slide into carbon/aluminium shafts. They have proven to be very durable plus helping to fill some freezers for Team Tippit
In using high carbon steel, forging enables one to temper the steel so the points are hard enough to keep from bending but not too brittle to break. Forging also allows any weight to be reached. The problem is it takes a lot of time with multiple forging cessions to achieve those goals.
2010 Broadhead Quest:
1) Simplify weight reduction
2) Easy method to change arrow shafts
3) Still keep durability
I forged up a simple head without a tang. A drill press was used to get the desired weight. In this prototype, I've over drilled it to see if I can still keep durability. A steel broadhead adaptor was slotted and gel super glued to the broadhead.
Now will it hold up...not break at the drill holes, not come apart at the glue joint, and not to too nosy?
Torture Tests to Follow...tippit
Topic: 3rd Generation Team Tippit Broadhead---Torture Tested (Read 936 times)
