what points do you practice with?

[woodsman1031]

I am about to make my first dowel arrows. I planned on making trade points from a saw blade for them.  What do you guys use for practice? Do yall practice with your trade points? If not please let me know what point I will need to make to practice with.

Tommy

[mullet]

 I use field points the same weight as my broadheads and as close as I can come with my stone points.

[woodsman1031]

Do you use the screw in field points? Is there different weight field points that glues onto trad arrows?

[Justin Snyder]

I use glue on field points.  If you make your own trade points and have a few extras, by all means practice with them.  It is the best way to know exactly where the arrows will hit.  All arrows need a test flight or two before you hunt with them.  Justin

[Pappy]

In hunting season I practice with what ever I plan to hunt with,Trade points or Ace broad heads.
The summer I use glue on field tips the weight of my hunting heads.
   Pappy

[mullet]

  I use glue on field tips. You can get them from Three Rivers in different weights.

[Little John]

I mostly shoot broadheads, either homemade trade points or storebought glue ons. I mostly stump shoot or shoot hay bales, I use points not over one inch wide and they pull out easy. About the only time i shoot target points is when I am shooting three d animal targets and the broadheads do too much damage to the targets. Broadheads just feel better in my quiver and are more fun.     Kenneth

[JW_Halverson]

I would like to indulge in practicing with broadheads, but the 3D targets only take so much before they fall apart.  I have a 10' x 10' archery net in the backyard that takes field points fairly well.  The arrow's flight is absorbed and spread across the net so efficiently that it looks like the bow has all the cast of an overcooked noodle.  Recently I noticed a few pass-throughs with the field points.  I went back to the place where the net was ordered and found that it is rated for field points up to a 45# bow.  So, yesterday I received my order from 3Rivers and will be replacing field points with 125 grain steel blunts. 

I wouldn't recommend steel blunts for roving or stump shooting since I feel they tend to stop the arrow more abruptly and cause more arrows to fail than the basic field point. 

My other choice is for a specific roving game at specific targets....yucca plants on the vast South Dakota prairie.  For shooting yucca I go with a Judo point after losing almost a half dozen arrows in the low grass in just one afternoon. 

[Pat B]

All year I shoot mostly glue on field points but near hunting season I also shoot my hunting arrows with whatever points are on them...stone, trades or store bought.     Pat

[hawkbow]

I practice with broadheads and stone points... they never fly exactly like field points in the Wyoming wind HAWK

[Coo-wah-chobee]

Use the stone points I hunt with. Ifn they break I make new ones. Practice with what I will hunt with....bob

[jamie]

just like bob. i have a few fire hardened points for 3d

[PeteC]

My trade points fly just like a field point.But , for practice I build "trade" field points,which are the same weight as my hunting points.I make these from old chainsaw bars.A very manageable size field point of ,say ,175 gr.,can be made easily.Also,if I'm shootin' in my pasture,or in the woods,I use one of my "critter gitters",cause they are pretty tough to lose. Hope this helps. God Bless



 Critter gitter


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