Ok, enough hear- say....

[Vabowman]

Ok, does anyone have first hand experience with their Mechheads not opening on a deer?? Let me hear the story if ya do, I just one to see if it is true, how often it happens, please state the Brand name. I know of two in 15 yrs, so it's not that common or is it...??

[Ben / PA]

......anyone one else get a headache when anything close to the subject of Rage comes up? I mean DT's deer fall over if you whisper the word near them, but come on. I propose a 3 day festival. For 72 hours, we will celebrate no threads involving anything that could lead to the mention of the Rage. Anyone in?

[BowHuntingFool]

I'm batting 100% with the Rage 2 blade fully deploying on contact!

[formula1]

Slick Tricks, guaranteed to be open 100% of the time on impact!

[Vabowman]

You don't needto convince meof their devistation, I want to hear if anyone has experienced failure , Im tired of hearing the arguement and arguing that issue with no real solid evidence or record of it. I mean I probably won't go out and buy em, but I will no loger argue that they fail to open if they in fact do open. so who has had a bad experience with the mech heads, it doesn't have to be a Rage head....

[HuntingBry]

I've used mechs for over 15 years and used at least 10 different broadheads from numerous manufacturers and put a lot of em in deer and I have yet to have one fail to deploy. That doesn't mean it couldn't happen, but the waymechs are designed I don't see how it could.

[GMMAT]

I had one experience with a mechanical head deploying before reaching its intended target (a turkey).

It opened up when it hit the fabric of my DB Matrix.[8D]

[MeanV2]

Landon, You are just opening a can of worms and nothing will/can be accomplished by a thread like this. I doubt very seriously if there is anyone here that has killed more animals by a greater number of different models of expandable heads than I have. They work great 99+% of the time.

That's better than I am, but personally I want to know when there is a screw up it was me and not some malfunction of a Broadhead.

I see no advantage to expandables any more. My fixed Blades group like a field point, cut huge holes, are as tough as an anvil, and they cut on impact instead of having to open

Use what you want and most of the time you will be OK but 40 years Bowhunting and using expandables several of those years has convinced me they are an unecessary risk at best.

They sell and a lot of people use them. Guys Love Gadgets, and really I'm no different than most. I just won't run the risk anymore.

Dan

[Vabowman]

Dan I understand, I won't shoot them either, 1% is still too much of a chance for me, but Im just interested the stats if you will. I want to hear from real people that have had failure. You are right, this thread will likely end up in the trash, I was hoping to get some unbiased info, but it won't happen.

[GMMAT]

1%

I thought this thread was made to determine a %-age......not state an off the wall number and cite it as fact????

Anyways.....I suppose everyone against the mechanicals will be shooting traditional tackle, this year? Less moving parts....and it's a tried and true method!

I'm assuming the answer to my uestion is a resounding...."No.....I'll shoot my compound.....because it is a tried and true piece of equipment". So....I'll cite the same reasoning for shooting my mechanicals (when I'm not shooting traditional equipment).

And,......honestly....if your mind's made up....and you KNOW you won't shoot them (mechanicals)......WHY do you care? Honest question. What will you glean from this post?