Trad Gang

This years goal is to hunt with all homemade equip. I made the bow and the arrows and the quiver and the finger tab. I also want to hunt with homemade broadheads. I am using .040 thick saw blade material. I rough cut the shape with a Dremel tool and finish the shaping on a bench grinder.

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I reshaped a field point to be a little more streamlined.

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I used a steel jig to saw a groove in the field point.

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Then I pressed the two pieces together. When I finish all of them I will braze them, polish them and use gun bluing to keep them from rusting.

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The finished head weigh 165 grains. and I use a cold bluing to protect them.

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looks pretty nice there hope you get a bunch with them .   :clapper:

Very professional looking heads! Hope you do well with them!

Real nice job. Damn we got some talent aaround here.

Absolutely amazing. I'm impressed with the making of simple trade points; this just blows my mind...

:thumbsup:    :thumbsup:  

Looks amazing!

Well done,

F-Manny

Whats the weight?<><

Very nice work my friend. Im most impressed with the jig. Let us know how they work.

Nice work.
They look like a tough head.

Great job on those heads....Let us know how the hold up.

They look great

Sticshooter... just from the looks of them I'd say they weigh right at 165 grains... of course that's just my best guess and what I read on his post.  :D

Best looking broadhead I've seen so far!

Good eye Charlie. Yes 165 grain. Don't be too hard on Sticshooter. He is from WI.

Dang, those are some good looking heads!  When are you going to have them in production?  :)  
>>>Tim-------->

Somebody has to keep him in line...eh!  :D

Nice job....shoot em yet? How do they fly?

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Wow, those look good, nice job.  But how do you all find the time to do this stuff?  One day i hope to make my own stuff but,  where to find the time?

Congrats,well done    :notworthy:

Man.....The talent on this site is just outstanding. Trad & Talent......Hummmmm
There must be something there..  :bigsmyl:  

Chort

Well done! I love the jig idea. I always did it "free hand" after blunting the very tip of a "streamlined" field point for a better start. This is definately better!

And now please tell me: What kind of femur is that one - laying around on your working bench? And why does the condylus supporting part look so "wrong" to me?

Great looking broadheads!

Ok now I see what ole Charles was poking fun of me for. Please forgive me I had FOOD on my mind!<><

Very nice work. Love the jig also.

The femur is from a buck I butchered for a friend. While de-boning the hind quarters, I noticed something was wrong with the bone. I boiled it out and found a blade from a broadhead next to the bone so I took it to work to Xray it to see if there was any more of the head buried in the bone. There was not. The bone you see in that that pic was the "Good" side that I used to compare the damage. This deer was shoot the prior year and survived through the winter with a compound fracture only to be shot the following year with another bow.
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QuoteOriginally posted by Falk:

And now please tell me: What kind of femur is that one - laying around on your working bench? And why does the condylus supporting part look so "wrong" to me?

I find the time, because I don't watch TV. Not for 3 years.

QuoteOriginally posted by houseman:
Wow, those look good, nice job.  But how do you all find the time to do this stuff?  One day i hope to make my own stuff but,  where to find the time?

I just recently finished them and it has been below zero so I have not taken them outside to shoot them.

QuoteOriginally posted by ishiwannabe:
Nice job....shoot em yet? How do they fly?

great job on the broadheads

You dont watch tv.You just watch x-rays of funny looking bones!LOL   :knothead:  

Nice broadheads.

Gil

:scared:       That's some bad looking bone!  Unbelivable what these critters can take! Thanks for explaining Ron!
What made me ask was obviously more caused due to the angle in the pic. Made the condylus look like as if it "sits" on a cone with almost none excitence conection to the femur. Hence some sort of "show piece". Didn't know it was actually the "wrong side" ...

Would love to have some X-ray device at hand to examine whatever I want to! Very nice! And my respect for parting from that other "high tech apparatus"

Falk

I am very impressed - They look like they were purchased.  Great Job!!!!  I am always amazed at the talent of many of the guys on here.

Thanks for sharing

Jake

WOW - those are impressive! Great job!

nice heads you got their

Wow,those are nice.

Those turned out very well---you did a great job.  Thanks for showing them to us along with the process.

Joe

Excellant work,should work really well for you.

Those look great! I can't wait to see the pics of the critters you shoot with them!

Good luck,

Bisch

I LIKE IT!

Wow, nice heads! It has been over 5 years! Did you ever get a shot with them?

Nice looking heads!

Really nice. Thanks for posting.

That is an awesome job, I tried that once and my attempts were comical.

So ya got a name for them?  Maybe Sawbone Killers...

It is amazing how much time is wasted on  tv.
Great looking heads do we get a look at the whole setup?

I see he posted 5 years ago and I also wonder if he took a deer with   those heads.

Interesting that they look like 1947 Roy Case heads who was also from Wisconson.

Awesome. Lots of talent there. Good luck with them.

I have been making and using homemade heads for years but I have never made any that look that good.  Very nice!

I don't understand the jig used for sawing the slot in the tip.  I don't see the OP here in the revival thread, but maybe someone can explain how it works?

Nice work, hope they get many kills!

Holy Smookes! this thread has not be pulled up in a long time.

Here is my blog entry the year I made those heads and then the final version of them.

Sat. Nov. 8

I moved one of my ladder stands last week and sat in it for the first time on Saturday afternoon. I got to the stand at 2:30 pm and hung 4 small sponges soaked in Tinks 69 upwind of my location and then climbed into the stand. It was COLD with a slight rain snow mix and hard Northwest winds. The soggy river bottom and the rain made it almost impossible to hear anything approaching so I sat tight with my hood pulled up to keep me dry.

At 3:30 I heard a noise to my left (down wind side) and turned to see a buck at 10 yards. He didn't smell me but I think he was focused on the Tinks sponges. I was busted sitting. I have never harvested a deer from a seated position but there was no chance in standing up with the buck so close. He took a few more steps towards the sponges and stopped with his head and part of his front shoulder blocked by a big cedar tree. I took the longbow that was resting on my lap and moved it to the vertical position. and got ready for him to step forward but he just stood there. I leaned back and could see the hair line on the back edge of the front leg so I figured I would take the shot.

I took the below picture the next morning to show where he was standing and made a poor attempt at sketching where he stood.

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I had plenty of time to tell myself to pick a spot and to take a good aim and then release. The arrow hit a bit high and the deer lurched forward and turned to run back on the trail he came from. About half of my 29 inch arrows was still visible as he ran off. I gave 3 loud blows on my grunt tube and he stopped for a moment and then walked off.

I knew I had hit him high but I was not too far back so I was sure I had hit him in the lungs. I desided to sit for 20 minutes but waited 45 instead since he took off with my arrow. At 4:15 I got down and collected my sponges and went to where he stood to take up the trail. There was no blood to be found but the black muddy kicked up tracks made the trail easy to follow.

After tracking about 40 yards, I spotted a shed antler in the wet leaves.

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A few feet further I found my broken arrow. the first 6 inches were missing

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After going another 20 yards I found the only blood that I would find while tracking this deer.

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It was getting dark as I kept following the muddy trail along the river. It took me all the way to my other ladder stand so I desided to walk out to my truck to drop off the bow and quiver and take up a path that would lead me back to the stand but would parrallel the trail that I had just followed about 40 yards closer to the field edge. As I approached my truck, I jumped a deer and my heart sank. I never got a good look at the deer because it was too dark but I still took up the trail back to my stand and if I came up empty I would come back in the morning and take up the trail again.

As I re-entered the river bottom to walk through the tall grass, I stumbled upon my buck. It was just dumb luck to walk into the woods where I did but I will take a bit of good fortune anywhere I can find it.

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I learend the next morning that the trail I was following branched off and he died about 30 yards past the branch on the other trail. I looked him over and realized that he had died only a few yards from the spot my Uncle Stan used to hunt. Uncle Stan died a few weeks ago and when I put everything together in my mind, I just took a moment to sit in the grass and reflect on Uncle Stan and the fact that I had just realized my goal of harvesting a deer with all homemage gear and to do it in the same woods that Stan and I hunted so many years ago made it a pretty emotional event. Your never too old to shed a tear. I sat there pondering things and giving thanks for my good fortune.

After gutting I examined the deer to find that I had gone through both sides even though the arrow stayed with the deer. I expected to find the front half of the arrow and my homemade broadhead inside the deer but it no resides somewhere along the trail of his final steps. I had hit the top of the near lung and the upper third of the far side lung. He traveled less than 100 yards brfore it expired.

Exit side hole

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My goal was to partake in a hunt like the founder of the Wisconsin Bowhunters Association (Roy Case) did back in the 1930's. Roy was the first person in WI to harvest a deer with a bow during a recognized archery deer season. He did it with a homemade longbow and arrows and his own homemade broadheads.

I couldn't be more pleased with my good fortune. My goal was to take a deer with a homemade gear and I was able to realize that goal in the same woods that I was brought up in. It doesn't get any better than this.  I feel very fortunate to have achieved this goal.

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Let me be the first to congratulate you!

My wife bought me one of these heads at Compton's a few years back. I gifted it to my buddy KHALVERSON since he made me some tradepoints. It sure does mount and spin well. So that buck was from 2007? How many more since then have been taken with these heads?

Yes I got rif of a few at compton. I was not planning to but the members of ABCC are smooth talkers. (im a member too)

Nice boadheads, nice buck, Great Story!   :notworthy:

Great work and a great job all around, CONGRATS !!!

  :campfire:

Great story thanks for sharing it with us!  I've admired your homemade broad heads for a long time.  Keep thinking one of these days...

Keep up the great work!

K.C.

A fine animal to make a dream a reality.
Nice job.
Tim

good job.
after you braze them do you retemper them as the heat from the brazing process would soften the steel of the blade wouldn't it?

:thumbsup:

Loved reading this very interesting bit of history!