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Brainstorming quiver options for Snaros

Red Beard

Red Beard

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I have a buddy who is interested in squirrel hunting. So a couple weeks ago I told him he and his son could come over after deer season and deplete our whole tree elephant herd.

I recently got to thinking that it would be cool to walk the property with them and try my hand at hitting a few of them with my stickbow. I started looking at various blunt tips and flu-flus. Finally landed on Snaro tips but I'm so cheap that I ended up making a few of them out of field points and cattle wire. Then I fletched the arrows with a 6 feather flu-flu.

The tree rat killers fly wonderfully and I can't wait to try them out but now I have a problem. How does one carry the dern things? Snaro-like (think big four-leaf clover) points mean I can't shove them up into the hood of a quiver and giant flu-flu rear ends mean I can't turn them over and shove them up into the hood of a quiver!

What kind of genius ideas can yall come up with to carry a 5 or 6 pack of these around into the woods?
 
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Upside down in the quiver. Use a field point to poke a hole in the foam. Then put the nock end in the hole. Serves two purposes. One you have the room for the blunt head and two you always know which arrow is your blunt. I use the hex heads or old broad heads and kill ‘em pretty regularly. Look closely at the pic.
 

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Petrichor said:
Upside down in the quiver. Use a field point to poke a hole in the foam. Then put the nock end in the hole. Serves two purposes. One you have the room for the blunt head and two you always know which arrow is your blunt. I use the hex heads or old broad heads and kill ‘em pretty regularly. Look closely at the pic.
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Roger. Guess I need to start my fletching much further up the shaft then. I'd never get the flu-flus in the quiver the way they are now.
 
Red Beard said:
Roger. Guess I need to start my fletching much further up the shaft then. I'd never get the flu-flus in the quiver the way they are now.
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I think I start fletch 1 inch up on shaft or so. Very easy and you have room for a condor upside down. But even just the nock in foam right agains the feather you should be fine. Then again I don’t have feathers on mine. Make the gripper work.
 
Petrichor said:
I think I start fletch 1 inch up on shaft or so. Very easy and you have room for a condor upside down. But even just the nock in foam right agains the feather you should be fine. Then again I don’t have feathers on mine. Make the gripper work.
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Right on. I'm hoping these Snaro-like tips will be worth it. The more I research them, the more the reviews differ.
 
Red Beard said:
Right on. I'm hoping these Snaro-like tips will be worth it. The more I research them, the more the reviews differ.
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The hex heads are sharp and fly like a field point. Squirrels are surprisingly hard to kill. This one was my practice broadhead.
 

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Are the hex heads really that much better than a field point screwed on with a washer in between the tip and the arrow shaft?
 
Been using Ace Hex Heads for many moons. They do the trick. Great for stumpin too. I have a few Judo points that have killed a few tree rats too.

I have a tattoo on my right arm of a Squirrel breaking an arrow in its hands. I shot one with 3 arrows with broadheads and he had a hold of one biting it as he died. He was a bad mutha skwirl. Don’t pick one up unless you’re 100% sure it’s dead.
 
Heydeerman said:
Been using Ace Hex Heads for many moons. They do the trick. Great for stumpin too. I have a few Judo points that have killed a few tree rats too.

I have a tattoo on my right arm of a Squirrel breaking an arrow in its hands. I shot one with 3 arrows with broadheads and he had a hold of one biting it as he died. He was a bad mutha skwirl. Don’t pick one up unless you’re 100% sure it’s dead.
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Do the Hex heads stop an arrow from burying in the ground as well as a judo point does?
 
Hex heads are better. Snaro is more for feathered creatures. A squirrel will laugh at it. Hex will bury, but not horribly.

Piggy backer arrow holders work the best for large nonsharp heads.
 
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Do the Hex heads stop an arrow from burying in the ground as well as a judo point does?
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I can’t remember the last time I had a hex head bury in the ground. I doubt they are quite as good but they definitely don’t bury like a field point or a broadhead. The kinda tumble after they hit something. I’ve never lost one and they hold up way better than the judos. Also I can find them in my 200 grain head.
 
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