Special field tips for stumps

[30pointbuck]

Are there any special field tips you can buy espically for stump shooting or you just use reg field tips. Can't see them coming out easy after shooting them into a stump.

[magnus]

I usually don't shoot stumps. I try to pick a leaf or trash or something else. Unless it's a really rotted stump. Too hard on arrows and points.

[Killdeer]

I have gone to footed carbons and hex heads for stumping. They sure take some abuse!

Killdeer

[30pointbuck]

Thats what i was wondering, Im going in a couple weeks and was wondering about how rough it was on arrows. I have never done it.

[Don Stokes]

"Stumping" is usually a figure of speech. Shooting real stumps is a good way to lose points and break arrows. I use judo points, and shoot at leaves, sticks, pine cones, etc. Blunts and hex heads are said to work well too, but judos are my favorite.

[cyred4d]

Judo points or rubber blunts work the best for me.

[Swamp Yankee]

Hex heads for stumping if the possibility of some small game hunting exits; otherwise judo points. ROTTEN stumps, pinecones, leaves, clumps of grass work for me.  You gotta break a few arrows to justify buying new ones once in awhile!

[30pointbuck]

I'll probably loose more than i'll break lol.

[steadman]

RFA Talons  

[Terry Lightle]

I have used nothing but judo tips for years

[30pointbuck]

Originally posted by okla bearclaw:
I have used nothing but judo tips for years

How well do they work in weeds and leafs tall grass. ?

[Spectre]

Originally posted by 30pointbuck:
 

Originally posted by okla bearclaw:
I have used nothing but judo tips for years

How well do they work in weeds and leafs tall grass. ? [/b]

That is where the Judo really finds its home.

 RFA's just ROCK, or I just put a washer behind a field point and forgo shooting solid stumps.

[LookMomNoSights]

I use hex blunts.
Its always nice to be in areas where you know you got lots of well rotted stumpage.  An oak grove may not be the place.....whether there are stumps or not!   Ive put arrows into what I thought was a rotted stump,  to hear what sounded like a .22lr shot and a damaged arrow....that would be an oak stump!  I have a lot of birch around here.....great stumps!  Pine as well!

[CoilSpring]

An example of how tough carbon or carbon/Alum composite (Easton ACC) (velocity = 243 fps) can be with standard 125 gr. field point screwed into a standard alum insert held with hot-melt glue:  
1. Aimed at a brick wall + hit a brick = arrow splinters for 4-6 inches as insert is driven into shaft, nock blows off from compressed air driven by the insert.  Penetration = 0 inches (bricks are hard when they come out of the oven)

2. Aimed at a brick wall + hit mortar between bricks = arrow not damaged because penetration of 0.25 inch into mortar (sand and cement) dissipated energy enough to prevent damage.

For easy stump removal, use any head that is larger in diameter at the front tapering smaller toward the rear (rubber/plastic blunts and hex-heads, etc.)

Use judo's or similar in grass/weeds/leaves and have fun  

[30pointbuck]

I believe it will be alot of fun.

[JCJ]

I shoot stumps a few times each week even in the coldest temps here in MN and I use nothing but Judo tips. If you shoot cedar arrows you will break plenty of arrows. If you shoot carbons you will find some are tougher than others. The Carbon Express Heritage and Maxima shafts are the toughest I've shot. I have bent several steel adapters that I use in conjunction with judo tips but I have yet to mushroom the front of a Carbon Express shaft.
 

[Over&Under]

Judo's are hard to beat.  I have had far better luck with them than any other head.

[rdoggsilva]

Give me Judo points and a nice day, thats all I need.

[JJB]

I've had the best luck with Judo's also.  It's a great time.

[centaur]

Yep, judos are the ticket. And stumping is the best practice for hunting and a lot more fun than 'target' shooting.