Small-Game Heads (Blunts & Judos)
Rubber blunts, steel judos with grabby wire arms, and wide-cut bird heads - small-game points kill by blunt force or shallow cut and keep arrows findable in the grass.
Small game asks the opposite of big game: a rabbit or squirrel needs quick blunt trauma, not a pass-through that buries your arrow under 40 meters of leaf litter. Enter the small-game head family - rubber and steel blunts that kill by impact, judo-style points whose spring-wire arms snag grass and flip the arrow visibly upright, and loop-and-wire bird heads for wingshooting's archery cousin. Cheap, reusable, and the gateway to stump-shooting: the best archery practice ever disguised as a walk.
What it is
A family of non-broadhead hunting points: screw-on rubber blunts, machined steel blunts, judo points (sprung wire arms around a blunt core), and specialized wide-wire bird heads - all in standard thread sizes matching your field-point weight.
How it works
Blunts transfer all energy as impact trauma - devastating on small-bodied game at archery speeds. Judo arms grab vegetation on misses so the arrow cartwheels and stays surface-visible instead of grass-diving.
Strengths
Humane quick kills on appropriately-sized game, arrows that survive and get found (judo arms literally stand them up), no broadhead raining down-range after a steep shot at a treetop squirrel (though any arrow sent upward still comes down somewhere - shoot only with a clear, known fall zone), and pocket-money pricing.
Trade-offs
Strictly small-bodied game - never deer-class animals; rubber blunts eventually tear; judo wire arms bend with hard use and need occasional re-tuning; ranges stay short (trajectory matches field points but targets are tiny).
Tuning & practice
Match head weight to your field points and small-game arrows fly identically to practice - which is the magic: every stump-shooting session (pick a leaf, a tuft, a rotten stump, shoot it) is direct hunting practice. Check judo arms for symmetry after hard hits.
Mistakes with these heads
Using field points on small game instead (they pencil through and lose both game and arrow), judo-less blunts in deep grass (enjoy the search), overreaching the game size, and skipping stump-shooting - the family's best feature is how much better it quietly makes you.
Brand-free guidance, not product recommendations - we explain what matters so you can choose for yourself. Always verify your setup's flight with the actual hunting heads before the season, and follow your state's equipment regulations (minimum draw weights, broadhead rules and lighted-nock legality vary).
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