Bone Arrow Head Gallery - Sticky

[Ed Brooks]

My 1st attempt at a 3 bladed bone broad head along with some elk tooth knock inserts.

[JackCrafty]

very cool     love the inserts.

[Ed Brooks]

Thank you JackCrafty, Bone lets even someone like me that can't make a rock point still make a hunt-able point.

[ncpat]

I see the guy on the vid used beef, deer & elk bones. What other bones are good? I assume chicken bones are too brittle?

Are any of the bone tips sturdy enough for stumps or trees?

[Ed Brooks]

I use deer and elk bones and yes they are sturdy enough for some stumping. Ed

[BryanR]

My last 3 weekends.  Have them down to steel wool stage.  This was one beef bone from local store.  Punctured my fingers about 5 times, not too bad. 

[JackCrafty]

NICE!   

[IdahoMatt]

Very nice!

[jim mason]

why not  use bamboo sharfties and put lead in the sherft

[Sockrablur]

I looked at these photos so many times before I made my first bone hunting points for this year I wanted to contribute in return, great resources in these pages, thanks guys!

Bones from last year's 8pts, the smaller ones worked best. I ended up getting 8 heads out of one leg bone...

The very white bones are from a pet store cow bone. I used a belt sander to shape them and then small files to finish shape and hand sanded to 600 grit.


I experimented with bone FP too. By over shooting the intended weight a little I had extra for shipping the tips even...






My first pitch glue lines were sloppy but I improved

[Pat B]

Welcome to PA, James. Thanks for your contribution. 

[Sockrablur]

Thank you Pat!
Hard to capture with a phone camera but I experimented making right and left bevel points when the bone seemed naturally shaped to encourage it. By using the appropriate matching fetching I figured there could be a penetration gain. At the least no harm in trying...








I chose to individually notch each head after fitted to the actual hunting shaft it belongs to because my wild rose and redosier dogwood shafts were all different sizes after reduction in spine and weight. By doing this it took more time but allowed me to notch the head exactly to the sides of the shaft which in turn helped the sinew wrapping lay as flat as possible creating as little resistance to penetration as it could on an animal.
I also found it helpful being able to file down/shape the base of the notches to reduce any unwanted width. Here in N.Y. I need 1" but wanted no extra to slow me down on the way into a chest cavity.

[wildman]

Carp plate points. I think I may be on to something.

[Pat B]

I got one of them carp bone points stuck on the end of a feathered stick. 

[Sockrablur]

Wildman do you have any photos showing the bone removed from the fish? This is very interesting! Well done sir...