Using Rage with shoot through windows

ZEKE83 · 10-22-2008, 04:47 AM

Has anyone shot a Rage out of a ground blind with shoot through mesh in the windows. It was raining out yesterday, so I sat in my girlfriends ground blind. About an hour into the hunt it hit me...will the blades deploy!?

These are my first mechanical broadheads.

Thanks

jmbuckhunter · 10-22-2008, 05:12 AM

I put a small rubber band around the middle of the blades and they shoot thru mesh without opening.

ZEKE83 · 10-22-2008, 06:34 AM

So are you saying that without the rubberbands they will open when hitting the mesh?

Gundeck · 10-22-2008, 06:47 AM

I have wondered about this also since I often hunt from a blind.

GMMAT · 10-22-2008, 06:50 AM

I'd "think" they WOULD open without the bands. It doesn't take much.

StrikeTrue · 10-22-2008, 07:17 AM

I shot mine through a carton of juice and they never opened until it hit my target behind it. Never tried with the shoot through windows.

PA Hardwoods · 10-22-2008, 07:23 AM

Everything I have learned and have been taught and read says DO NOT shoot mechanicals through the shoot through windows in a ground blind. Fixed blades can be but not mechnicals.

Gundeck · 10-22-2008, 07:25 AM

Guess I will stick with my Muzzy heads for now. I love them, but I have been very impressed with the pics of the Rage wounds.

Bbearfax · 10-22-2008, 07:26 AM

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CHAMP198 · 10-22-2008, 07:57 AM

bought a new blind last Friday and on the box it specificly says do not use mechanicles on the shoot through mesh only fixed blades