What are they thinking? I just seen for sale a screw-in bullet adapter for arrows!!! Choice of 38/357 mag or 22mag. Claims to fire on impact comes with a 450 grain practice point. Single use $39.95 for 6. OMG!!!!

Anything to get you to part with your money.

Had a friend shoot one at a sheet of plywood. The explosion tore off two layers of the wood and completely destroyed the plastic head.

The video shows a hog dropping in it's tracks, but personally can't see this being any good except maybe a head shot.

They don't work anyway, check youtube.

Not really a new concept. There were arrows equipped as "bang sticks" in the '60's.

Pass.....

I don't see any trad person,wasting their money on such a product but the tech guys will be all over it.

Thanksfully, any type of exploding head is illegal for hunting in Idaho, and I hope most other states too.

Don't waste your money. A friend bought six. Took them with his uncle, a butcher, to kill a couple of steers. Long story real short, they were an absolute disaster. One didn't even detonate and the others, shall I say, didn't come close to being effective. Still see them advertised though.

I rigged some aluminum shafts with black powder and a shot gun primer years ago. Got rid of a bunch of old shafts and made some noise. No damage to anything but the arrow. I can't imagine it being usable or legal

Yea, there is nothing for the powder to burn and generate any velocity so it just a bang. The maker probably figures there is enough idiots out there who want to be like the duke brothers lol"

This has come up on LW before. They are a worthless toy. Check out the YouTube review.

Aside from being slightly illegal and certainly 'non traditional'.. Rimfire or centerfire cartridges..WORK in firearms because the firing pin striking the primer( or rimfire) .. ignites the powder in the case which is fitted in the firearm's chamber--a very confined space ...and propels the bullet down the barrle and away..

Toss live ammo into a fire and they make noise but nothing like when they are fired from a firearm..

NOW, .38 or .357 spent cartridge cases do make a decent make do point for wood arrows for stumping..:)Jim

Crap if u have to or need to use ammo just use a gun

This reminds me of a DNR warden in the late 60's who had a confiscated 12 ga. break-open single shot that the barrel had been cut off at 16". The owner was shooting shells with the pellets dumped out and replaced with the nock end of a 12" arrow with a 3 blade broadhead filed to just fit in the barrel...to kill deer during bow season. The game warden demonstrated by shooting an arrow clean through the pine plank door of an outhouse.

Anything for the lazy hunter will sell. It's legal in SC outside of archery season. You used to be able to buy arrow adapters for 12 ga shotguns too.

Well, they really don't sell that much, so it's nothing to be concerned about. Good heavens there have been all kinds of nonsense over the decades by people trying to make a buck, and nearly all of them fade away in short order. As dire wolf said, they really can't be very effective as a bullet since they can go any which-way once the primer is set off.

Anyone who thinks they need this kind of crap for hunting shouldn't be hunting at all.

I think Rambo used a compound bow with some sort of explosive device in one his movies.. But that was hollywierd stuff..:)

Yes as PT Barnum once said "there's a suckered born every minute". And another quote that will fit this marketing junk:"a fool and his money shall soon part". Just another money pit for a compound shooter to fall into.

I once read that people used 9.5 mm cupro nickle bullet jackets for arrow heads.Out of curosiry I once made a field type point from a 5.66 mm cartrige case by cutting off the rimless end and inserted a steel point in the neck area.Currently some of my blunts are 45/70 govt cartrige case ends cut to 3/ 4".As for arrow heads that take .22 mags or 38/357 s in my opinion have no place in real traditional archery.

What Jim said

They might as well shoot a gun.

following up what osr144 said....

Very interesting Jim . I read about the 9.5 mm jackets in an old english archery book I borrowed from a library when I was a kid.Never realised Remington actually marketed some directly at archers. Cool. Excuse my typo in the last post (should have been 5.56 mm ) After my sucess using 45/70 cartrige cases I am looking at high base 12 ga shot gun shells for larger small game blunts. OSR

Apparently, Remington was not quite over the fence into the archery world, or the box would have contained 24 points instead of 25 like shot shells. :)

Been using .357 brass for blunts for years. Hell on rabbits and small game. Withstand a hell of a bunch of punishment.

Friend of mine, back when we were teenage dumb-asses, glued a bb on the primer of a shotgun shell, taped to the end of an arrow and shot it up in air. We scattered like quail when it was a bit too straight up. Sometimes you wonder how you lived to be as old as you are....LOL.

Crossbow boys will love 'em

" I think they might be kind of fun if used safely. "

Just trying to figure out how you might actually DO that.... Sounds like a disaster waiting to happen!

OSR - how do you get a an arrow to fill up a .45/70 case??

And.. Just curious - what do those "arrow tip" rounds look like outside of the box?

IIRC, Rambo's "exploding" broadhead was actually a Ti Ni coated step-drill.

-Joe

GF I fill up 45/70 cases using specially made footings.I shape these using a round bottom spoke shave and the rest is done with a block plane.Once shapeing and sanding is done I turn the end to accomodate the 45/70 case end.Here is some more pictures.

The shaft tapers off fairly quickly down to 11/32".

Here is the bottom of that spoke shave.It makes quick work of that flaired end on the footing piece.

Slick!Love the look of footed shafts, and they make extra sense for stumpin' arrahs with blunts like that... at least from a durability standpoint....

Though I think I'd be reluctant to carve up too much brass... seems to be going at a premium these days. But maybe if I check in with a guy I know who reloads a lot for handguns... He must have some brass around which has reached the end of its reliable service life....

Had a guy here who was going to work a trade with me for some .45/70 brass... and then the PMs hit 30 days and danged if I can remember his handle!

Hmmmmm... Not a lot of takers for my 7-08 brass, though...

GF 44 mags would work OK. I don't shoot fire arms any more due to partial loss of sight in my right eye.I have thousands of empty brass cases left over from my gun shooting days of various calibres.I don't shoot 5/16" shafts but I have got at least 5000 30 cal M1 carbine cases good for blunts on smaller diameter 5/16" shafts.I did own 2 select fire M2 carbines.I used to have fun brassing up targets with my auto s.Thank God I am left handed with archery. Archery is cheaper than trying to run a stable of machine guns. OSR

GF, I can't show you what those Remington arrow points look like because I just grabbed that photo off ebay some time ago.

My understanding is that they were spitzer type jackets.

Jim

Illegal here too & I'm glad.

I do use empty .357mag cases with enough lead shot in them to bring them to 145grs to make a pretty good blunt!

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