Dos Plumas Hunting Ranch - Bow Hunting Tips: Never Use Dull Broadheads
When talking about bow hunting hogs, you have to include broadheads. Your equipment has to be up to snuff.
A perfect example is something I saw on a video once " the importance of a broadhead being sharp. A guy put two nails in a board and strung some rubber bands between them, which simulated the elasticity of a blood vein. He shoved a dull arrowhead through it, and he said, "Yes, this broadhead will punch a hole." But none of the rubber bands broke.
He said what they do is just slide over that dull broadhead and there's no cutting. So your veins will just roll right over the edge of those things, and your chance of recovery and your hemorrhaging is going to be minimized. Whereas, if you had a sharp broadhead, it'd be maximized where it actually cut those veins.
The guy took a sharp broadhead and slid it through the same rubber bands and it cut all those that came into contact with it. So that is the best example I've ever seen on the importance of a sharp broadhead.
If you've ever had anybody in the hospital, you've heard nurses or doctors talk about getting an IV started, that their veins rolled. That's what happens a lot of times. That needle will go in there and it'll just kind of slide across or just roll that vein instead of staying in place when they're trying to stick the needle in. So your veins can move around, not just with people but animals, too. They have that rubbery, elastic effect. It requires a really sharp broadhead in order to cut that. That's something that's just really important.
I see it time and time again. I understand that broadheads are expensive; but so is the hunt. Why would you want to jeopardize the animal suffering and success of the hunt because you're too cheap to put a sharp broadhead on to go out on the hunt?
You can take your practice broadheads and fire those time and time again and never have to replace those. I've seen guys come in and take a brand new set of broadheads and shoot them into a target, practicing to make sure they're tuned up. "All right." And then put them back in the quiver and say, "Okay, let's go." I'm like, "You're really going to shoot those."
"Well, that's all I've got."
To me that's not very good, not very smart. Any bow hunter worth his salt is going to put fresh, sharp broadheads in the quiver without ever being shot before. I hear it all the time"guys that have shot one animal and picked it up and stuck it in their quiver because the arrow's still good. And go shoot another animal with a broadhead.
Yeah. Sometimes they kill another animal with the same broadhead, but then again there's no way that you can tell me that that broadhead's still sharp after going through an animal and sticking in the dirt. There's just no way. That's not very good ethics-wise.
You owe it to the animal to harvest him as quickly and cleanly as possible. Why would you want to wound an animal instead of harvesting an animal? There's a difference between shooting one and finding one. You owe it to yourself. You've come a long way and spent a lot of money to get here, then to cheapen it up over a $10 broadhead.
A perfect example is something I saw on a video once " the importance of a broadhead being sharp. A guy put two nails in a board and strung some rubber bands between them, which simulated the elasticity of a blood vein. He shoved a dull arrowhead through it, and he said, "Yes, this broadhead will punch a hole." But none of the rubber bands broke.
He said what they do is just slide over that dull broadhead and there's no cutting. So your veins will just roll right over the edge of those things, and your chance of recovery and your hemorrhaging is going to be minimized. Whereas, if you had a sharp broadhead, it'd be maximized where it actually cut those veins.
The guy took a sharp broadhead and slid it through the same rubber bands and it cut all those that came into contact with it. So that is the best example I've ever seen on the importance of a sharp broadhead.
If you've ever had anybody in the hospital, you've heard nurses or doctors talk about getting an IV started, that their veins rolled. That's what happens a lot of times. That needle will go in there and it'll just kind of slide across or just roll that vein instead of staying in place when they're trying to stick the needle in. So your veins can move around, not just with people but animals, too. They have that rubbery, elastic effect. It requires a really sharp broadhead in order to cut that. That's something that's just really important.
I see it time and time again. I understand that broadheads are expensive; but so is the hunt. Why would you want to jeopardize the animal suffering and success of the hunt because you're too cheap to put a sharp broadhead on to go out on the hunt?
You can take your practice broadheads and fire those time and time again and never have to replace those. I've seen guys come in and take a brand new set of broadheads and shoot them into a target, practicing to make sure they're tuned up. "All right." And then put them back in the quiver and say, "Okay, let's go." I'm like, "You're really going to shoot those."
"Well, that's all I've got."
To me that's not very good, not very smart. Any bow hunter worth his salt is going to put fresh, sharp broadheads in the quiver without ever being shot before. I hear it all the time"guys that have shot one animal and picked it up and stuck it in their quiver because the arrow's still good. And go shoot another animal with a broadhead.
Yeah. Sometimes they kill another animal with the same broadhead, but then again there's no way that you can tell me that that broadhead's still sharp after going through an animal and sticking in the dirt. There's just no way. That's not very good ethics-wise.
You owe it to the animal to harvest him as quickly and cleanly as possible. Why would you want to wound an animal instead of harvesting an animal? There's a difference between shooting one and finding one. You owe it to yourself. You've come a long way and spent a lot of money to get here, then to cheapen it up over a $10 broadhead.
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