What do you use for practice with broadheads?
#12
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2003
Posts: 9,175
RE: What do you use for practice with broadheads?
I've used marine styrofoam for years. Used to just go out to the lake and pick up a piece after a good storm, but now the Corps of Engineers has banned using it for boathouse floatation. It's getting hard to find any more. Hate to think I'd actually have to stoop so low as to go and BUY some. [&o]
#14
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Harford Co Maryland USA
Posts: 4,966
RE: What do you use for practice with broadheads?
I shoot my muzzy's at an old 3D deer target. I want to shoot EXACTLY the same configuration I'll have in my quiver, so I don't use the practice blades--I just use last year's blades in the actual broadheads I'll use. If they're perfect at all ranges, I'll put in new blades, spin test 'em and put them in the quiver.
#16
Thread Starter
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Houston Texas
Posts: 60
RE: What do you use for practice with broadheads?
After thinking about it more, I think the blades on the Tekans were lost because I switched to Easton Axis arrows, which is a much smaller shaft than my previous carbon arrows. With the smaller shaft, where the head screws on to the insert, there's a much smaller diameter area to stop the blades when they expand.