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Gimlis Ghost:
Why not just use standard field points? They should penetrate the body of even the largest water fowl.
Saxton Pope made his own field points from the pointed FMJ  jackets of .30-06 rifle bullets with the lead melted away. Its unlikely you could find similar milspec bullets cheaply enough to do that today.

Barring that a number of members have posted of making target arrows using nails as points.

On the desk before me is a common ball point pen with a metal cap at the tip that is just the right size for an impromptu field point. A finishing nail might be inserted in the opening for the pen point.

All in all I'd just go with the common field point. The slip on type not the threaded shank kind.

If only shooting at close range a simple fire hardened tip should do the trick. You could sharpen these with a pencil sharpener.

BTW
Awhile back I looked up some small hand flaked stone points that are sold in bulk for making jewelery. They looked well made and just the right size for bird points.

The ones I was looking at were of a pink quartz but I think they had obsidian and flint as well.

WhistlingBadger:
I've never hunted ducks, but I use hex blunts for grouse.  Ruffed grouse are amazingly tough critters, but a hex to the chest puts their lights out reasonably fast. 

For home-made, I've wondered about using chisel-shaped stone or metal heads.  One of the TBB volumes talks about them.  Seems like they'd be easy to make, fairly hard to lose, and would probably do the job.

bjrogg:
I seem to remember seeing a video once of a native type “ bouncing” Arrow. It was a blunt type they used for waterfowl. It reminded me of those bombs they used in ww2.

They shot it at water level at sitting ducks. It would skip and hit them just above water level. It also floated.

It was years ago that I saw it. Maybe Tod Beckham? I really don’t remember it I think they showed a successful hunt.

Bjrogg

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