Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!erb1!osnome!hunting From: spickett@orion.oac.uci.edu Newsgroups: rec.hunting Subject: Re: broadheads Message-ID: <486@erb1.engr.wisc.edu> Date: 4 Apr 91 12:56:57 GMT Sender: news@erb1.engr.wisc.edu Distribution: world Organization: University of California, Irvine Lines: 54 Approved: hunting@osnome.che.wisc.edu In article <476@erb1.engr.wisc.edu> you write: > > From: keith@clodii.columbiasc.NCR.COM > >From: Tim Rigg > > >Also, what sort of heads are used for other game such as rabbit, > >quail, turkey, and squirrel? > ^^^^^ > Come now Tim, surely you jest!! ;-)) A quail is hard enough to hit with a > shotgun let alone a bow! If you learn to do this I want to see it!! Tim, If you don't think you can do it you won't try and so make it truth. We hunt pheasants out here with a bow and it's not easy but we get birds. I'm talking wing shots - not grounders. The point is to not give up till you've at least given it a good try. >Maybe I have my birds mixed up. I was not talking about the baseball >sized birds that travel in groups and make you fill your shorts when >they all explode. I was talking about the volleyball-sized birds that >wander around on the forest floor, usually alone or in groups of 2-3. >Maybe the bigger birds are Partridges. Maybe grouse also. >I didn't think I could hit one flying but the handicap of using a bow >seems like enough to justify shooting them while they are walking on >the ground. After all: they aren't that big, they are moving, and you >have to be pretty smooth to get a close, unobstructed shot. Theres a special made tip for shooting birds. It looks like a blunt with 4 loops of wire sticking out in different directions. Sorta looks like a big 4-leaf clover. It works like a blunt with a direct hit and like a snare for the near miss. One other thing about shooting birds with a bow. Theres a different type arrow used called a "flu-flu". The only difference is it has oversized feathers instead of vanes. The big feathers slow it down so it doesn't go far and for birds you won't be shooting far anyway. Makes chasing the arrows easy. > > Seriously though, there is a broadhead available for small game and it's > called a judo point. It has three or four little fingers designed to prevent > penetration. The shock of the impact alone should be enough to dispatch your > game. Judo points aren't broadheads. Their blunts. >Would you recommend a judo point for turkey? the spring attachement I meantioned before is made by Zwickey. The same company makes the judo points. I don't think they'd stop a turkey unless it was a head shot. Thats probably why the other product was offered. Sounds logical anyway. --Steve