ORIGINAL: Pydpiper
I was just gonna throw the old things away and mount some slicks on some new carbon for the father in law, but you guys are compelling me to screw them on and shoot them!
Thanks Arthur, now I know what they were called.
A big ol' left handed thumb hole stock mounted to some steel limbsand we get hung up on laws and broad heads..
I tried to get the old blades out but it seems the aluminum has oxidized enough to make them pretty solid chunks..
Pydpiper back in the day, those heads were (for a short time) the head to use. The problem with them were the blade thicknes, not very strong at all and would not stand up to very much at all. They would easily break on contact with any bone of an average size. But that is not what I found out to be a
soft spine. That is the head tip would easily become off center with the arrow shafts center axis. This would cause some serious arrow wonder in flight. If you were to make sure they stayed true and centered on axis (need an arrow straightener with atachments for tips), then they are a fairly accurate head.
About the string trackers. I have heard of some that attached the string into the back insert, then inlayed the string in the groove when inserting the arrow. they claimed that there was less altering of the arrow flight then with the wire attachment, but the range was maxium 25 yards before the arrow started to drop alot.
Good luck.