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using stone points for small game??

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kiliii:
Hmmmm, I might be in the minority here but I pretty much use blunts exclusively on everything up to the size of a snowshoe hare. My blunts, though, are solid hardwood about twice the diameter of the arrow shaft, and taper to 1/4".

I've had the opposite experience with squirrels-- every one I hit with a stone or other point ran with the arrow and got away. I lost a bunch that way. Then I switched to blunts and now with squirrels on shot and they are on the ground, twitching from a broken back and unable to escape. Same experience with ground squirrels and, sometimes, cottontails.

I also have found that wasting stone points on small game is a goodly waste of energy and resources-- one miss and then suddenly I have a lot of work to do to make that arrow shootable again. Blunts are usually fine (mine are also covered in a thin buckskin sock on the end to keep them from splitting).

adb:
Hi,
I've had very good success with judo points. I know they're a bit expensive, but I don't lose many (only a couple a year). Every squirrel, rabbit, or grouse I've shot has been dead. I have had some bad luck, like the other folks here, with blunts. I've used the .38 shell casing, but not with the nail in the end. If you want to make a cheap home made judo point, mount a .38 casing and drill 2 holes perpendicular to the shaft in a drill press, and then pound nails throught he holes , so they stick out sideways.

mullet:
   I've used judo's on rabbits and really tore up some meat and guts.They would go clean through them and make a big hole and the the rabbit would crawl off into the palmetto's with the arrow.I kinda like the 38's or nutter's.

Coo-wah-chobee:
...Like Mullet said........bob

mullet:
  Brian,a bag of coal would suck. ;) ::) >:D

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