Well, I doubled the number of shots fired this season in one afternoon.
I had one G5 small game head that I shot first. I thought it gave me the best chance because I really wasn't expecting much out of the rubber blunt tips. The first shot with the G5 was a hit on a big fox squirrel, but he scampered away and up a big oak tree. Apparently it wasn't a solid hit in the vitals.
Then I loaded up one of the rubber blunt tips not expecting much. My next target was another big fox squirrel at 10 yards, which is really only about 6 steps from my stand. As he was stretching out, I let him have it and thud! He was down. He kicked a couple times, and rolled over and that was it. The arrow bounced off of him and lay next to him in the leaves.
About an hour later, the floodgates opened and here come the gray squirrels. Finally one hit the stump at about 11 yards and offered a shot. I squeezed it off and thwop! It was a serious thud as there was a tree behind him for a backstop. The arrow actually impaled him pushing the blunt all the way through. I was impressed.
Shortly after another victim seemed to come from a hundred yards away just to use this same stump. As I was swapping out from my broadhead tipped arrow to the blunt, he caught my movement. He jumped up on a tree at 12 yards and sat on a fungus ledge staring right at me lightly barking. I slowly swung my bow around with him still protesting and flipped off the safety. Thump! The tree backstop let him take the full force. It pushed the blunt tip well into the body through the spine. A 371 grain arrow going around ~325fps has ample power to punch squirrels with the right head.
Oh, and we did see a deer. So it was a much more enjoyable afternoon in the stand. If the bushytails are driving you crazy, twist on a rubber blunt tip and get to work.
DuckHunt
