Question for those of you that use replaceable blade broadheads.

Do you re-sharpen your blades or do you replace?

For those of you that do re-sharpen. Do you use a flat stone or a "gadget" broad head sharpener?

 

Replace.

 

Both. When resharpening, I use a "gadget" that holds the blade at the correct angle, then stroke it on a piece of glass covered with different grits of wet/dry sand paper with a dew drops of oil. The grits go from 220 through 1500. I must say, it seems to get the blades sharper than they were originally.

 

I retired every head that I have killed a deer with.

 

I've used the same arrow/broadhead to kill up to 3 deer before becoming fubar!

 

It is something I just do as part of the kill.

 

Replace, if I can't get them sharp enough to suit me.

 

I replace the blades every time the broadhead gets shot. As long as the head itself is ok, I'll reuse it over and over.

 

X2

 

I test fire the arrow to see if it shoots good. If so, it gets resharpened, cleaned up and back in the quiver. I use a flat stone and sandpaper.

 

so, like only 1 right?? did you retire your truck too??? :D

 

I'm with you Greg...

I buy replacement blades, I'd like to sharpen them with a barber strap or something like greg talked about. I don't feel that the "gadgets" do a very good job.

 

For a loong time I swapped out blades. But now if they aren't too damaged I can resharpen them nicely. I use a KME sharpener. It works very well.

 

I replace them.

 

You never have to retire a Ford! 1 more then you.

 

I use the ONE SHOT RULE. If a broadhead has been shot once regardless of what it was shot into, it's done (well the blades are done). I'll replace them and use the head again.

I keep dull blades for practice and then new blades for hunting.

 

That's Insane!!