If your very, very careful you can heat the tip of a field point until you can pull out the insert. You have to be very careful not to heat up the carbon. Unscrew the tip a bit....NOTE: only works on aluminum inserts, not carbon inserts.
These guys are correctomundo...probably have tried it just like me. It unravels the carbon fibers 9 times out of 10. One thing I have always thought might work, but have never tried it is to get some super glue remover or denatured alcohol, remove the nock, position the arrow so the insert in down and the nock end is up, and pour it down into the arrow from the nock end. Maybe let it set for an hour or so and then see if that has loosened it up at all. The downside could be though that the chemical might weaken the carbon down around the insert after working on it like that. Might be worth a try...
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A guy on another site gave me this tip, put a weight in the shaft from the nock end and swing it so it slams into the insert. I use a screw that fits into the shaft, it's kind of heavy and after several blows the nock comes lose and works it's way out. I'm not trying to save the shaft when I do this just retreaving the insert. Does no damage to the shaft as far as I know, but I've never been concerned with it.
One thing I have always thought might work, but have never tried it is to get some super glue remover or denatured alcohol, remove the nock, position the arrow so the insert in down and the nock end is up, and pour it down into the arrow from the nock end. Maybe let it set for an hour or so and then see if that has loosened it up at all. The downside could be though that the chemical might weaken the carbon down around the insert after working on it like that. Might be worth a try...
I wouldn't try this. If it desolves the super glue, it'll weaken the carbon bond and you may have an arrow blow up on you unexpectedly. (See below)
Removing super glued inserts?
