Screw-in broadhead ??

[Richie Nell]

When using the built in screw-in model broadheads what do you guys do,if anything, if the threads of the shank were to get stripped or banged up?  Do you just chalk it up as a lose or fix it.
When that happens to adapters or field points I just toss it not knowing an remedy.

What say you?

[bolong]

Never had that problem. Guess if I did I'd throw em in the reject draw, don't hardly throw anything away, figure I might use it for something some day.

[LCH]

Buy a thread file or a tap to chase the threads.LCH

[Fletcher]

If they are just buggered a bit, you can chase them with a die, 8-32 is std.  If stripped, you are SOL.  When using alum threads on both ends, be sure to use some sort of thread lube; string wax works well.  Alum threads can gall up with each other and you won't get them apart.

[kat]

I'm with Fletcher. Just run an 8-32 button die over the threads.  I use Muzzy Phantoms, and to toss them for the sake of a buggered thread is kind of expensive.

[Ryan Rothhaar]

Looks like the guys beat me to it, but I was just going to tell you to talk with a local machinist or machine shop.  You know, someone had to BUILD that threaded head/insert, it ain't no trick to FIX one.

I can't believe somebody would throw away one of the "super duper" new type broadheads (that cost an arm and a leg and part of your forehead) just for a dinged up thread....but then I still save scraps of wire because they "might come in useful" sometime...

R

[gypsymech]

x2 on chasing the threads, its easy and your not tossing an expensive bh.

[JC]

Never had a steel broadhead get buggered up by an aluminum insert, not sure as I've ever heard of one either. Had aluminum adapters strip/rethread but just heated and pulled them then installed a new adapter. I would think a steel broadhead that gets messed up by aluminum would get sold/traded quickly out of my gear.

[Osage61]

[hunt it]

I'm with JC, if it was the last broadhead on earth may go through all that hassel. I'm assuming you have more than one, toss it.

[Ragnarok Forge]

I just put them in with string wax as a tightener / thread lube and have never had a steel broadhead messed up by any insert. I have had a few inserts messed up when I hit a bone on the way thru an animal and had to either replace the arrow or the insert.