Whatever became of the old Broadheads?
 

I read in another post about a Wasp 6 blade. What about the Razorbak 5? You know, the one with replacement cartridges? Some were just junk in my opinion. The Savora with an aluminum tip???? WOW! Those were the days. I' m not sure why folks kind of gave up on the old multi blade heads, the ones with 5 or 6 blades. I remember blowing Razorbak 5' s through deer and a buddy took a nice bull elk and bear with them. Also I know the shop that carried the Wasp 6 blade couldn' t keep them in stock they sold so fast.

You' d think that todays superbows could shoot any broadhead as fast as they are, (or advertise that they are) [:o] How many of you old timers shot them? Why did you change?

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We gave up on em cause trying to get good flight was an exersize in futility. I believe the name was Anderson, had a head with a zillion slots in it, sort of make your own bladed head. I immediately bought them and put in 8 blades. Looked like you was shooting a space craft. Spent 2 weeks trying to get them to fly right-to no avail, but boy, with all those blades it looked good. Now, to the aluminum savoras. After spending hour upon hour, trying to get a good edge on a fixed head, these heads were sent right from heaven. They were the first replaceable blade head that I could find, we didn;t have Cabelas, or Eders back then.They even flew pretty good. I was happy as a pig in shi* . I even got a few deer with them, but- if you ever missed a deer with them and hit something harder than sand, they bent. 5-shot would have a field day testing and writing about them. Ah yes......the good old days!!!!!!

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I' d still feel confident shooting a Bear Razorhead.........still have a scar on my pinky finger to prove I got em sharp![:o]

I remember when I just had to have WASP Cam-lok heads too.........

Getting into bowhunting in 1984 I missed some of the true innovations that guys like Big John got to see.........like knapped flint, bronze forged points and shark' s teeth to name a few.;):)

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when i started back in 79, i started with bear razor heads ,we didn' t have these great boards to share info with others so..anyway to make a long story shorter ,the razorheads flew pretty good out of my bow but being the gadgeteer that i am ,when a friend told me about the razorbak 5 ' s ,i remember him tell me you have to have em. couldn' t get them to fly real good.i don' t remember what head i switched to after that ,but now i use thunderheads!:D there was also a razorbak 4 they didn' t fly too great outta my bow either! i do wonder how they would work out the the faster bows of today?;)

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There were a lot of neat ones! Here' s a site that has some: http://www.stickbow.com/stickbow/Col...ollecting.html

Savora' s? I still use them, they have worked very, well for me. They first came out with a blade back that was at a right angle to the shaft, they didn' t fly well. Later versions had the back of the blade swept forward a little, they flew well. They were still available a couple of years ago in several configurations.

The Razorbacks were designed let the shaft spin while the head remained static. Most people I knew that liked them; took time to tune them so the heads would spin easy. I believe the 5 blade model weight about 145 grains, that caused some people tuning problems.

I used to see quite a few homemade or home " modified" heads. Lots of razor blades (what' s that?) glued to factory heads.

One of the most creative I' ve seen was a broadhead " add on" . It was a length of thin metal strip, wound up in a spirial (like a clock spring). The center of the spirial was large enough to slide over the shaft and one end of the strip attached to the point end of the arrow. Imagine a piece of ribbon wrapped around the shaft just in back of the arrow point. The plan was that when the arrow penetrated the animal, the metal ribbon would unwind and be pulled through. The sharp edges of the ribbon would create a wound.

There were even modified factory heads that held a rimfire cartridge. Upon impact the rimfire cartridge would fire. I don' t know if the intent was to create a min-grenade or to have the rimfire bullet create the wound.

Yup, lots of creative minds out there.

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Lordy, I' m feeling old listening to some of you guys. I didn' t get my first store bought broadheads until I was in high school, around 67 or 68. I' d been making my own from old saw blades and lashing them into slots in my arrows since I was 9 or 10. The primitive archers call ' em ' trade points' now. But when I got my first batch of Bear Razorhead glue-ons, I was in heaven. Killed my first wild pig with a Pearson Deadhead.

Never did mess with any of those replaceable blade heads until the late 80' s. It was hard to justify the expense.

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Hey,
Thanks for the replies. And thanks for the link Roger. I have a small broadhead collection from the late 70' s but found it was kind of expensive to buy a 6 pak of all the differant types and have 5 left over. No one else was into collecting back then. I should dig them out and see what I' ve got.[&:]

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I thought I felt a pain in my glutious maximus, sure enough, it was Matt biting my arse. Go ahead, make fun, but you should see what those knapped flint heads do to tomato' s. 5-shot would throw away his broadhead collection to get ahold of some of them!!!!!!!

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John, you want the worlds greatest " matter head" you got to shoot the vortex 2 3/4" two blade, kills' em dead and slices them at the same time! I have some of those olderheads laying around here, and most were Ok, but many were junk! I agree with Matt though as old as the bear razorhead is it' s still one of the best on the market! I am trying to figure out which one is older, the bear head or big John?[:o]:D