Sharpening Mako Shark Broadheads

First, I found these broadheads come sharp already but in my estimation they can be sharper still. On one head I found one side sharper than the other. You can use these heads for hunting right out of the box and can be resharpened and reused many times. 

Or you can disassemble them and use a Stay Sharp C sharpener below. Just don’t lose the tiny screw that holds the blade. The C sharpener does a very good job of resharpening your main blade and bleeder blades. 

Another method is to use a wheel knife sharpener below on the assembled main blade.

I took off the bleeder blade but you may not have to.  Experiment with the angle you draw the blade through. I have one on order. Many like the simplicity of the wheels. Tip the head down at a 45 deg angle or more. With some pressure, draw the blade toward you several times. You should feel some scraping. Then draw with less pressure. Strop with curved or folded leather or denim. Test to easily cut paper.

 

Yet another simple method is to strop these blades on an oval steel diamond coated Jewel Stick. This won’t sharpen the bleeder blades though. I like this method for touch up the most. It is quick and does a shaving sharp job with practice.

Good Hunting!

 

Simmons Mako Shark Broadhead – Best In Class?

As my readers know, I bought a three pack of Simmons Mako Broadheads ($49.95) for full penetration on black bear.

We shall see…

Over the years, I resisted broadheads with a curved blade largely due to my mindset over sharpening one.

There are many videos on sharpening these heads to razor sharpness with a few tools. I will do this in another article. 

What came to mind today was to maximize penetration on bear with a 50 pound compound bow.

It is perhaps one the strongest broadheads I have seen in 50 years of hunting.

See the back image of the head where blade thickness can be seen. Spec. thickness of the main 440c stainless blade is 0.050 and the bleeder is 0.035 or so inches. That is thick! Rockwell is around 54. Wow!

 

Compared to my current broadhead (on left), it is shorter but so much more stout.

I shot the Mako at 20 yards and it flew perfectly. Energy calculates to near 45 ft-lbs.

FOC is 12% with 125 grain Mako.

I did a spin test as well. Perfect!! What makes todays cut-on-contact broadheads so great is an integral threaded ferrule that is part of the broadhead that is machine centered for spin. No wobble like in years past. 

More soon!