how to tell if my broadheads r sharp?
08-01-2010, 05:41 AM
#12
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2009
Posts: 1,926
The problem not asked?
Do too many hunters not know how to sharpen their broadheads, gutting knives, or the Thanksgiving day carving knife?
And I became a better fisherman when I sharpened my own fishing hooks.
And I became a better fisherman when I sharpened my own fishing hooks.
Last edited by Valentine; 08-01-2010 at 05:45 AM.
08-01-2010, 12:16 PM
#13
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: SE Ohio
Posts: 2,531
There are a multitude of ways to tell if a BH is sharp enough, from shaving to the "cut vs. tear" method on newspaper, to whatever. If mine will shave off some of the skin on my fingerprint, then they are plenty sharp.
This little guy does a heck of a job.... http://www.rei.com/product/780741
08-01-2010, 12:27 PM
#14
Spike
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: North Carolina
Posts: 96
Use A Rubber Band
The method that I was taught years ago was to take a regular size rubber band and stretch it slightly between your thumb and forefinger and barely hold the nock in a two finger grip with the broadhead resting on the rubber band. Drag the blade across the band and it shoud be cut into with only the weight of the arrow. The theory here is that the small rubber band best represents the artery of a deer. I hope this helps you as it works for me.
08-01-2010, 12:36 PM
#15
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Kentucky
Posts: 1,498
Not necessarily.... I have a handful of Slick Tricks that regularly go into FOAM, and get re-edged, and then are again ready to kill. I killed 3 deer, 2 coyotes and a blue grouse (lost the arrow on the grouse), with the same BH, and it had hundreds of trips into foam...
