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Old 10-25-2005 | 11:48 AM
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LBR
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Default RE: Who needs cheep small game points?

The only critters I've killed with the Ace heads are spruce grouse, and only two of those. However, it made me a believer. I was in Canada a few years ago on a moose hunt with friends. We took a day to grouse hunt, since the weather turned off hot and the moose weren't moving in the daytime. We had several birds hit and lost with regular steel blunts, judo's, and hard rubber blunts. I'd just gotten the Ace blunts, and for some reason thought to bring them with me--didn't even have them on an arrow. We swapped some over, and every bird that was hit with an Ace went down--some pretty marginal hits. We had two birds killed with other points--one was hit with a rubber blunt and the junction of it's head and neck (right behind the ear hole) with a 66# longbow, and I had to chase it down. Another very young bird was killed with a judo from a recurve--60#, I think. Four others were killed with the Ace heads. Not exactly a fool-proof field trial, but they made a believer out of me. I saw one bird hit square in the chest with a 600+ grain wood arrow and rubber blunt from a 65# longbow, from about 10 feet. The bird fell a few feet, straightened up, and flew up in the top of another tree. Another shot was a miss, and the bird flew off. I couldn't believe how tough these birds were!

I don't know just how well they will work on rabbits--I used to go after those a lot, but in the last few years I haven't been after them much at all. I have shot at a couple with the Ace blunts, but haven't connected yet. I had gone to cheap broadheads for those, but sooner or later I'll connect and see what the Ace will do.

They aren't quite as "unlooseable" as a judo, but close--they don't slide up under stuff nearly as easy as field points, and shouldn't bury up in a tree with hard bark (figure they would in a pine though).

Short answer, I like 'em.

Chad
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