Broadhead

[Dan bree]

Any body remember or shoot or even take any game with the serpentine broad head.  The apple corer .

[Pat B]

I have one but I don't think I'd use it on game.

[Bowwild]

I remember them but thought they were gimmicky and wondered if they ever sold one to anyone but a collector.

My first concern with them was how to keep em sharp.

[Dan bree]

How would you sharpen them  yes a gimmick head. With extreme helical fletch  they would screw into  yikes.   Father of the single bevel. Idea. .  No I don't think so.

[todd smith]

Still remember the ads...  

[jrchambers]

haha holy crap I have been thinking about a head like that.  looks good for small game where you don't want a lot of penetration. I have been thinking about a head with a slight offset not helical where the blades would actualy be straight just offset a degree or so. like a  mild offset fletch

[Dan bree]

I think someone made a three blade helical head .  Ma three blade  maby   . How about the little shaver. That took razor blades  or the 003s

[Bill Carlsen]

I bet those Seprntines would be great for squirrels.

There was a Browning and I believe a Shakespere. I remember one of the guys had them and sort of got them sharper with a file. They whistled funny, but they flew straight. He shot a fork horn deer with one and got about four inches of penetration, I helped him find the deer. The next year, he got zero penetration and could not even find a blood trail. So he went to those copperheads with snaggy talon edge, he did not get much penetration with those either. I could not afford that expensive stuff, so I was forced to shoot through deer with Deadheads and Herters broadheads. What gets me, back then there were a number of guys that thought that shooting completely through a deer was not a good thing.

[legends1]

I have one in my collection, but wouldn't hunt with it.

I googled them and they are cool looking! Looks like a prototype to the Atom broadhead (which was a lso kind of a gimmick, IMO). I would not hunt with one but they are neat looking.

Bisch

[ChuckC]

They look neat in a collection.  Got one on my wall.  But they went away for a reason.  

Also, I believe they are not legal in all states.  I THINK that they are the reason some states have some words in their laws stating "the blades shall be of a single plane".  

ChuckC

[Stumpkiller]

I have a couple and they do look great - but I wouldn't hunt them.  Though if you could get or keep them sharp I have no doubt they'd be effective.  Somewhere out in Youtube Land is a video of someone shooting pumpkins with one.

   

The ones I think actually had a concept were the Spiral Killers.  Came in left and right helical (and straight) three-edge heads that were well made.

   

[ChuckC]

There were several versions out there in their day.

There were other broadheads that did some similar things, including several long lean three blade heads that had a steel ring built in somewhere near their base, to cut a core for better blood.

There were even some that were simply sharpened tubes, cut on an angle, that cut a plug and "allowed" for better blood flow.

ChuckC

[Jon Stewart]

I found a stone point out west that was knapped spiral called a Pandale.

[ChuckC]

Jon.. pictures ?
ChuckC

[Jon Stewart]

I can send you a hard copy.  I just can't figure how to do pictures on the internet.

[ChuckC]

By hard copy are you meaning a photograph or an email picture ?   If you send it as an email attachment, I can probably post it for you.

ChuckC

[Jon Stewart]

I meant a photo from Walmart.  I have a couple of kind of rare points that I have found, the other of note is a Clovis.  I took photo's and sent them on to others.  I just can't grasp this computer thing.  Too old to learn I guess,lol.
My wife has the ability to down load pictures and e-mail them.  Maybe I will get her to do it.  PM me your e-mail address. Jon

[tradarcher816]

Wow never heard of them before today , weird looking head.