Homemade broadheads

[UncleFester]

(13 December 2012, 20:33)Tartar Horde Wrote:

(13 December 2012, 20:23)UncleFester Wrote: Hi,
I've been toying with the idea of getting a horse bow for the kit, something nice and compact. I use to shoot compound bows but would find it difficult to maintain one without all the proper kit so figured id keep it simple.

This lead me to start looking at broad heads and other tips and I got thinking about making my own.

Do you think cross cutting an arrow shaft at one end and securing 4 Stanley knife blades with epoxy resin would be a decent enough emergency broad head? You could pack part of the shaft with epoxy to give it a little weight and strength. I know its not gonna be as good as shop bought one, but shop bought ones won't last forever.

Anyone already done something similar?

UF

It might work at a pinch but the shaft will need binding behind the cut to reinforce it, the arrow might last longer doing this but I wouldn't like to take a bet on it lol,
Seriously though! if you learn to knap flint arrowheads you will be self sufficient for life, and can always fall back on your knapping skill when there is no metal to be found, your great ancestors used it to put meat on the table (cave floor)

Good idea and time proven but can't say Ive stumbled across much flint out my way it's all limestone round these parts (Lincolnshire) any ideas here to find a decent supply, what sort of areas is flint more common?

(13 December 2012, 21:02)Tibbs735 Wrote: Hammer an old teaspoon flat, shape with file and hacksaw. You could heat it up and drop it into water to harden in.
It is then sharpened into a lovely broad-head.

That's a good idea post apocalypse, I'll have to give it a go some point at work on the anvil and shaper it on the linisher (purely for speed)

(13 December 2012, 22:23)ObongoPox Wrote: Get charity shop carving knives and angle-grind broadhead sized blanks then file and sharpen.Would be useful to have a shop bought one as a template.Alternatively,sections of industrial width hacksaw blade.Be interesting to know how native-americans of the mid 19th century adapted bits of scrap metal to replace their flint arrowheads.Perhaps they stuck with flint and other non-metallic materials.

That's a good one too, I thought about the Stanley blades as by crosscuting you could have a 4 barbed broadhead plus my local boyes sell packs of 100 for about £1 so that's 25 or 50 arrows sorted depending if you go 4 or 2 blades per shaft.

I'm licking the spoon one best so far, anyone else got any tried and tested methods?

UF

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Should say liking the spoon not licking bloody iPad!