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Wanted "bird point" article feedback...
mullet:
Billy, great informative article. I've been in the process of making up a set of foreshafts with small points and I'm going to hunt with them. I'm with David Tiller, I think a lot of them came from snapped points. I've been saving the tips of all the points I've broken and reworking them. And after thinning they are all about the same.
Again that is one of the best articles I've read in Primitive Archer in a long time.
Little John:
Eddie you should have a perfect opportunity to do further testing on live hogs, hope you do and let us know how you do. Nice meeting you at the classic. Kenneth
TRACY:
Billy, really enjoyed the article and the fact finding process that you used. I did a similar test on two blade and three blade steel broadheads in the late '80s. Nothing like making it as real as possible to get real answers and not guesses. The only criticism I have is constructive and not negative. In the midwest, roadkill deer are very easy to acquire on any given day and I would utilize that carcass over a nice clean killed deer that I worked hard for to harvest. This also brings up the question of the outcome of that deer after the experiment. Was it discarded or salvaged?
Great article.
Tracy
cowboy:
I enjoyed the article also. I've been making bigger heavier points to give more weight up front and make my arrows fly straighter. Think I"ll try some "bird points" with heavy foreshafts on the hogs pretty soon.
billy:
Glad ya'll liked the article. To answer your questions Tracy, roadkilled deer are rare around my parts. There are lots of subdivisions going in and the deer have become scattered. I would have definitely used a fresh roadkilled deer if I could find one, but usually by the time I see them they are bloated, putrid, and I wouldn't even get near them.
As for the deer, the only regret about the test is that the deer had to be discarded. When my friend Jason shot the deer it was on a Monday in early october. Even though we had put ice bags in the deer's chest, that week we had temperatures in the mid 90's!! By the time I was able to conduct the test on Wednesday afternoon the deer was already going bad. I kept the deer in the coolest part of a large metal building, but I had to work all day tuesday so I was unable to replace the ice bags until the end of the day. By wed afternoon, it was getting really stinky. There were green patches in the meat and I wasn't about to risk food poisoning by eating the thing. I felt really bad about that.....
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