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Having nothing to add myself, but remembering reading something similar recently, here’s what the guy who wrote the book said about it sometime ago:
tjconrads wrote: There are certainly plenty of opinions on what to shoot squirrels and grouse with. I have shot both with everything from a simple blunt to wide broadhead and know one thing: you don’t lose one of them if you use a broadhead.
Grouse can be tough to kill with blunts. Sure, small spruce and Ruffed are easy to waylay with blunts and Judos, but where I hunt big blues wear flak jackets. Rubber blunts and Judos bounce off unless you are shooting from just a few feet, which isn’t likely. I have seen them take a steel blunt right through the middle and still fly off, never to be found. I have shot more grouse with my bow than I can count: spruce, Ruffed, blue, and sage, and found blues the toughest of the bunch.
I shot this blue last September with a Zwickey No Mercy at about 25 yards. Broke its left wing and knocked it off a log, stone dead. I was more surprised than it was! A blunt or Judo would never have penetrated the feathers, much less the skin.
T.J.
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Smithhammer wrote: But is it just the light, or does that jimping on the spine look like it would eat your thumb for breakfast?
Just the light I think, here’s another angle:
Here’s one of a range of knives made by pretty talented young man down here. The pup is still in his teens I think and producing this:
It’s going in my wife’s suggestion box for my christmas gift this year 😉
