Old 'Blue' Zwickeys?

[Terry Green]

I think I have 3 still from back in the day....80s.

I have one I retired in the 90s and took it out of retirement to TX and killed a hog with it.  Thought I was not going to find that one, but I did and immediately put it back in retirement for good.  That head killed 14 deer and one hog.

Anyone else got any 'Old Blue' stories?

[BuckeyeGuy]

Terry, I used blue 2 blade deltas when I first started bow hunting as a kid.  They were dads and he and my brother shot 4 blade blue deltas.  Dad still has all of them.  I was the designated sharpener for us all as dad had one of those sharpeners with two files attached to a piece of wood that was beveled out at the angle you just needed to sharpen 2 blade heads.  Worked like a champ.  Worked great, the good old days! 

[caleb7mm]

That brings back memories. I'm pretty sure I had blue 3 blade heads? I'm gonna have to go through my old stuff and see if I can locate them.

[smokin joe]

I'm sure I have a half dozen or so blue Delta 2-blade broadheads from the 1980s in my older gear box. They are very sturdy heads that work well.

[HornHunter]

I remember when Jack Zwickey brought out the blue blades, he said he just wanted something different
same head different paint, people hated them, for what ever reasons, went back and found the original recipe for green... bam...awfull close to John DEERE GREEN..

Jack was an interesting man, world class down hill skier, met him at the shot show in vegas 1986, we talked hunting and his broadheads, several months later I got a big box of zwickey deltas in the mail with a simple note these are rejects use them if you will... I did.

[KAZ]

Ha, I shot my first traditional buck with the blue zwickey on a blue Easton x7 1914 shaft.... Beautiful 8pt buck... I'll see if I have pics.,1987...

[KAZ]

From a homemade "crotch stand" 25ft up with black jeans, green checkered logger flannel, and a black widow HS60 set at 57lbs... Such a good memory....

[stevem]

I was living in Arizona in the '80's and '90's, and had blue Zwickeys.  I still have 3.  For whatever reason, I had one beat up blue Zwickey I considered my "javelina special".  The nose was very rounded from filing as needed to get the point back into fair shape after a rough life.  For sure I took at least 5 javelina with that particular head. It was lost in the hills above the Blue River near XXX Cabin (which is semi-famous as the location of one of the last grizzlies in AZ.  The bear severly mauled the owner of that cabin, who never regained health afterwards and is buried near the cabin)

[pavan]

I had a half dozen Blue Deltas on 2018s.  Shot them out of a Super Kodiak and my Schulz.  After about three years of file resharpening they got be evil looking things.  Then i made one of those one in a life time shots at a nice buck with the SuperK. That head got retired, until my wife took it off of my wall box where I keep the 'strings and sealing wax and and other fancy stuff'. It is now on one of her arrows. 

[Jon Stewart]

I think they were out for two years. Went back to the green color because hunters didn't like the blue. I have a few blue ones also in a box some where in my mess.

[black velvet]

I have quite a few in the blue color. Both 2 and 4 blades.  Funny how I like the blue color better then the green. As they say different strokes for different folks.

[mnbwhtr]

Hornhunter  Jack still is an interesting man, helped him celebrate his 90th birthday last year, still making broadheads and judos.

[Ray Lyon]

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My first bear in 1986, a Montana cinnamon color bear, mule deer and at least a dozen white tails all taken with blue two blade Deltas.  Great heads.  (Full disclosure-I was 25, competitively playing basketball and cross country ski racing, I'm not that skinny now!!)

[Adirondack Bowman]

killed a big bull moose up in the  Yukon back in '89 with a blue zwickey. used a Ghost recurve

[frassettor]

I've always heard of these but have never seen one. Can someone please post a picture of one?

[black velvet]

I tried but I can't get picture to post.

[HornHunter]

Here's the best one I have left.

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[Hot Hap]

I had a couple dz of them but thought I got them in 73-74

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[Guru]

I have one down in my cabinet that I retired after I killed my first animal with a stick. A Delta that I ground the bleeders off of that  killed a 4x4 bull elk with in Colorado. It was a glued on a cedar shafted arrow I made myself and shot out of my Paul Schafer made Silvertip.

[frassettor]

Here's the best one I have left.

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Thank you
I never saw one before