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favourite stone points - no aesthetics

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GlisGlis:
all beatiful points. thankyou for your replys

@tower I wonder how you haft the point on the right. isnt that point going to make the arrowhead more prone to loose alignement/move? (also small contact with the haft?)

Sparrow:
Beautiful points all    They will do the work  !  '  Frank

Tracker0721:
I like the side notch. Easy to make a triangle and notch it.

nclonghunter:
Those are all beautiful points and well made. I would like to ad a little different perspective here. I will first say I have not taken a deer with a stone point, however a related experience this year has made me re-think my stone point designs. I was hunting with a recurve and my arrows were tipped with Grizzly broadheads. A small buck came into my stand and I took the shot. As things happen the arrow touched a limb and turned somewhat sideways prior to hitting the deer in the front shoulder. The arrow lost speed and the side impact caused severe loss in penetration. The Grizzly broadhead as you know has very square shoulders on the back. The deer bolted and I could hear the shaft striking saplings and limbs as it ran. I began the track and did not find the arrow as I had hoped. I have not yet found the arrow which I believe is unable to back out because of the square shoulders. I do pray it has since been pulled out by the deer, which I plan to do a large search once the season has ended. Some of the points that have been posted have what I would call barbed or at least square shoulders at the base. Now, I personally will not make a point to hunt with that has any square shoulders or slightly barbed in the back end. If circumstances happen and I get a bad hit, I want it to easily pull out. If it is a good hit and deep penetration or a pass through then it wont matter any way, so make a bad shot easy to remove or fall out. I had never considered this until this years event so I am only trying to relate an experience. You make your own decisions...
I am also going to grind the back of the Grizzly broadheads into a angle that will permit easy removal from game or target.

Outbackbob48:
Lyman, I understand where you are coming from, on the other hand I have filed some of my steel points with tapered backs ( zwickly eskimos) so that they cut whether pushed or pulled, on my stone points back edge is heavily ground to ease splitting of shaft. I have shot quite a few deer with arrows and have only had 2 that arrow was showing or sticking out of like a target, All most every one was broke off  from brush or fell out the off side, I did have a cane arrow stay with the deer until it fell and the broke in the last life struggles, the cane was shot in a very brushy place and should have broke in the first ten yds. Every other arrow material broke off on the first few jumps except the cane and one carbon, I have very little experience with carbon as this was the first deer killed with a carbon arrow. Bob  ps. if anyone trys filing on both the push and pull be very careful of pulling out of target or game, they will cut both ways, don't ask how I know :o :(

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