Do you practice with your heads, or use field tips for practice then change to mechanicals prior to going hunting?

I practice with my mechanicals - just got a box of 100 grn rocket steelheads last night and started shooting one already. I will shoot a practice head out of each of my hunting arrows. Most of the Mechanicals I have shoot flew pretty darn good, but I stll like to shoot em up - just for confidence

Most of my shooting is still with fp' s - closer to the season I will set up 3 of the mechanicals and do a final tune with them.

Last year I shot each style into the target just so I' d know who was going where. Not sure why, but the rocket sidewinders would always shoot EXACTLY where my fp' s went. The shockwaves and snypers were almost dead on, but not as consistent as the sidewinders.
I just ordered 3 gladiators and will give them a looksee and maybe add them to my quiver for next season.

So many broadheads, so few animals

I practice with the broadheads. I have some Spitfires and I use them with the practice blades. They group right with the field points but I' m more confident if I have shot the broadheads.

Figured I should add, a few years back I was shooting wasp Jackhammers, and they shot just like my field tips, but I kept shooting the broadheads for practice. When I got the rocket wolverine 3ps last fall, I shot one, just like a field point, so I used field tips exclusively for practice then went broadheads for hunting. The only shot I got went right where a field tip would' ve...

Hey Rack, you mentioned above you were using Rocket Steelheads, did you give up on the Wolverine 3p' s for any particular reason?

Hey Range,

I have not given up on them totally but I am looking into a stronger body design.

They did the job well on both my deer last year, and as I have said on the one where it hit the off side shoulder the tip bent and I lost one blade. Maybe the tip was not screwed in tight - I don' t know, but I like the idea of a one piece steel body. The head also does not take repeated target practice - tied closed or not.
Since I also joined a lease upstate with lots of bear running around I want to keep my options open


So I bought some rocket 100' s and some snipers to play with
And I still have a few dozen thunder heads and muzzies that I shoot often.

Gotcha.

What specific wear and tear did the heads show after multiple target use?

Do you sharpen the blades after target use, or simply replace them? If you sharpen, any special tips given their small size?

The blades bend - no-matter what you do and then do not fit into the ferule.

Sharpen the blades LOL.....I have never sharpened a blade in my life[&:]

I always buy replacement blades or just buy new heads.

Anything I ever touched to a stone just turned to dull

Interesting on the blades bending... I wonder if it has to do with the fact that the head body is aluminum versus steel... Have you had this experience with other rocket heads?

And for the sharpening... that explains the beard

I thought about trying to resharpen them as I can' t buy replacements locally and I' m a cheap bassturd...