gapshot

just had a new longbow made. beautiful bow. bowyer nailed it, built everything i asked. during the fine tuning process got a beman 500 classic with a 175 grain field point paper tuned. they were made for one another. now i have the bow, and the arrows are on order. much to my dismay i've just realized the G5 broadheads i had been using only go up to 140 grains, and at first glance in some of the other catalogs there aren't alot ofoptions over 125grains which is what i have been accustomed to shooting. now that i've been sold on increasing the F.O.C. and fine tuned my new bow, what do i do about a broadhead? i like to practice similarlyto my hunting setup.

jim

Schultzy

Magnus makes a 145 grain broadhead if your looking to go heavier. Its called a snuffer, there a 3 blade head, you can get them as heavy as 185 grain I think.

Cessna Flyer

Yea, I don't think you are done tuning if all you have done is shoot the bow with field points. Anyhow, I like your last sentance,
Go with a glue on broadhead and adapter. I shoot a 145 grain Snuffer with a 30 grain adapter.

JimPic

If you like the Montec,go with a 125head and use 50gr brass inserts

Big Duane

JimPic is correct, you can get varying weights of brass/stell inserts to beef up your broadhead & FOC weight

Have you read Dr Ashby's reports ? he says the best setsups are greater than 650 grains, 190 Grain Grizzly broadheads and steel adapters to grossly load up the FOC on the setups - I'm becoming a believer by reading his reports, they all make sense

my future setup will hopefully be graphlex shafting and those big El Grande's and a 700 grain total weight arrow out of a 54# Zipper recurve

BobCo19-65

You may want to look into getting brass inserts.

hatchet jack

The Wensell Woodsman are 150grain and a fine broadhead. Montec made tha Skote a few years back, a 2 blade head 150grain for trad and bigger game. they don't make them anymore. Montec said they did'nt sell enough so the stoped makeing them. You still find them on-line if you search the Web!!! They were a nice broadhead, byt you had to work on they to sharpen them. Goodluck

Hatchet Jack

burniegoeasily

Thats the reason I cut my shafts for the head I like instead of getting the head to match the shaft. Im lazy and dont like to be limited to special orders.

hatchet jack

Try Alaska Bowhunting supply they sell some heavy heads and inserts!

Hatchet Jack

gapshot

thanks for all the great input. i have read Dr Ashbys report and i do believe the data he has published. this is a new bow to me and so far it paper tuned with the beman 500 and 175 grain point. i sent for the field point test heads sold at 3 rivers and will experiment more with a heavier FOC, but clean flight was also an important factor in Dr Ashbys' equasion in which he determined penatration. i will go as heavy as i can without trading clean flight. thanks to your responces i will have few options when it comes to making the switch to a broadhead. on aluminum and carbon arrows, so far i have had good luck with the G5's, on woods i generally use wendsell woodsmans. i have not even begun to experiment with woods yet.

enjoying the input.

Thanks

jim