Ideas for homemade practice points

[david w.]

i have an idea i have been wanting to try.  Im sure some else has done it.

Take a very straight antler tine and cut off the pointed end then superglue it on the shaft and bind with sinew

[napper]

just seen this thread if you are using bam boo you can use duplex nails. What you do is grind the first head to a point and then drill the right size hole in the bam boo to get the pith out leave the nail as long as you want the longer it is the haver the point. you also can braze  brass on and grind to a point for a heaver point. I have only used this on bam boo as it  has a hollow center.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Tom

[welch2]

Here's some heavy points I made from concrete nails.



And here are some horn points.






Ralph

[Cromm]

Hi, Those horn points are great!!!!!!!!

[welch2]

Thanks Cromm. I only made the middle one , I used the other two as a reference to start making my own horn points. I did a tutorial on these points if you want to read it.

http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php/topic,5342.0.html

Ralph

[recurve shooter]

yup. them horn fieldpoints are something els. i like em. alot.

[nugget]

Very cool
 I will have to try and make those for my next project. I like em ALOT

[D. Tiller]

Anyone done those horn points out of something like Ipe or some other hard wood? I think a thick dowell put in a drill might work! But I do like the looks of that horn!!! 

[GregB]

Would horn points or wood points have adequate weight without making them longer or adding something else for weight in the end of the arrow? They seem like they might be lite to me, but they look really good.

[welch2]

Greg ,the biggest point ,the one I made in the photos above weighs 41 grains .The white one weighs 20 grains ,and the smallest point, the black point weighs 15 grains.

But they still shoot good . You just have to plan around them a bit. I put them in canes ,big end of the cane forward . And make either just a tad longer than heaver pointed shafts or a little under spined . They seem to do pretty good on shafts with more taper toward the nock end . You know the canes you might otherwise cull ,because the nock end is to small without building it up with a tailshaft type nock.

Ralph