Home made rabbit smashers

[andy80]

Clint Miller gave me the idea to make these. A modified version of woodies SGB's. They are a 250g field point with 4mm rod inserted. I then cut the field point down until they are the same weight as my broadheads. They fly great and hit hard. Cant wait to try them on bunnies.

[Stickbow Hunter]

They should do the job Andy!

Jeff

[SouthTexasPighunter]

Hey Andy howd ya drill out the holes for the rods to be run through? Hello there Jeff.
STP

[Stickbow Hunter]

G'day STP, glad to see you back; have you any hunting tales to post up?

Jeff

[Gringa Bows]

Man ,they'll do the job alright

[Nephew]

My Word! That'll drop 'em! What weight would they have been had you left the points on?

[SouthTexasPighunter]

Hey Jeff, nothin with stick n string but have had quite a few runs with hogs and dogs and waaaayyy to many days in the field already chasing after Doves with a scattergun. I did thump a skunk last night with my hybrid bow as he came out from under the house where he has taken up residence. Bad thing about it was that I had a large group of hunters staying in the house and we were all getting ready to have a feed of BBQ brisket, ranch beans and potato salad. So I had to wait until he made his way through the crowd which parted like the Red Sea(you never saw the like of grown men squeeling like school girls when they saw him) then they really squeeled when they saw me bring out the stickbow. It seems that they didnt know you could accurately shoot a stinker in the head with a stick and string under the full moon and have him drop right there. I think they were all worried he would get back under the house . Anyhow not trying to hijack this thread but would really like to see how Andy put those thumpers together because I have a bunch of rabbits and racoons eating my corn and protien in the deer stations and they are eating a hole in my efforts of trying to keep my herd healthy. We finally had some rain here early this morning about three and one half inches or better. To date we here in South Texas were about nineteen to twenty inches below the normal rainfall for the year so everything was pretty burned up browse wise. Many of the cattle ranchers are having to sell off there herds. I have seen water holes that have never gone dry shrivel up and disappear and wells go dry in some areas they are having to deep core drill for water. I will post some pictures tommorrow as right now I have to TRY and lift my boy off my bed and get him to his, poor lad I got him up at 0500am yesterday and we hunted all day yesterday and then we led some hog hunters last night till 0130 am with night vision sights mounted on rifles so needless to say he is "bushed out" at least for now.
God Bless.
STP

[bigbob]

Great to hear you finally got some rain, living over here I sure know how droughts go. Seems like you have a busy time of it too with the various hunters on your place.

[SouthTexasPighunter]

H'lo Bob, yes lots of hunters right now and Hopefully through next Spring into early summer. Hunting season for the townies started Sept. 1st course for those of us lucky enough to live in the Boondocks hunting season never lets up. There is always a pig coyote Javalina or some other varmint to take care of and lets not forget about fish.
All Gods best to ya.
STP

[bigbob]

Talking about boondocks I am fascinated with a tv show on a channel called 'Swamp people' 'bout catching and shooting gators for a living. Part from the bloody mozzies it would be a great life I reckon.

[Stickbow Hunter]

Thanks STP, I look forward to the photos.

Jeff

[Macca]

Nice heads Andy, I made similar heads back in the late 90s and again a couple of years ago. The only problem I had, was because of the rods/pins, when you hit a hard object there is a lot of leverage on them. This tends to fracture your shaft around the insert area. I did play with sleeves over the shaft around the insert area in an effort to beef that area up. With the length of rod you have, you may find that they are very noisy in flight.

I have tried every blunt there is commercial and home made. I tend to always come back to the judo point. Good luck with the heads, saying that when they hit the bunnys they will turn them inside out.

Cheers Macca.

[andy80]

STP - I just used a cordless drill and drilled very carefully, making sure the drill was running through the center of the field point as well as making sure it was at 90deg to the point. It would be much easier with a drill press.

Mort - Before cut the end off the field tip the they are about 370gn, when cut back they are about 260gn, the same weight as a 125gn steel adapter and a 135gn ribbie.

Macca - Cheers for the info. I did bend one slightly when it hit hard dirt the other day. And yes they are a little noisy, hopefully all the rabbits I find are blind and hard of hearing I'll hopefully do some testing on hares near home. I have another one made using a bit heavier rod so I could cut them a bit shorter. I need all the diameter I can get though. How do you get the Judo's weight up to the same as your broadhead weight??

[Macca]

Andy, depending how keen you are, you can machine a steel adaptor to make up the extra weight. Add a couple of inches of 2216 alloy from the adaptor and over the length of your shaft, extend the alloy sleeve an inch past your insert. This will bring the weight up and beef the area up also. Trial and error mate good luck with it.

Cheers Macca.

[Stickbow Hunter]

How do you get the Judo's weight up to the same as your broadhead weight??

With real arras I use a 'woody point' to get the judo point to match up (or get close) to my broadhead weight.

Jeff

[perry]

Good work, the best part of Traditional Archery is the opportunities for DIY.

A usefull variation of these types of head is too incert piano wire through a hole in the field point and form it into a figure 8, a bit of solder to hold it in place and you have some very mean bird points

I wonder if using 1.5 mm spring wire bent forward to resemble Judo point profile would be a little friendlier on arrow shafts

regards Jacko