broadheads

[snowman69]

What is everyones favorite choice of broadhead for hunting animals like deer and bear and elk? What makes you choose the ones you do for the game you hunt? Also I was talking to a fellow recurve shooter and he says that he shoots 3-blade muzzy's and he told me that they fly great and he also has taken an elk with a mechanical head all this with his recuve, I didn't realize that was possible with the KE that we get out of our recurves. Has anyone else had any experience with mechanicals or even 3-blade heads out of there sticks before?

[Arthur P]

To be blunt, I think anyone who'd use a mechanical broadhead with a recurve needs to be hung by the gonads with his own bowstring. [>:]That goes double for using one on an elk! Maybe one of the small ones like the Rocket Steelhead would do okay but, with all the great fixed blade heads available, I don't see how or why any traditional shooterwould gamble on any mechanical head.

Muzzys are good heads for recurve shooters. In fact, the guy who invented them was a diehard recurver. I've used them myself. Snuffers and Wensel Woodsmans are a couple other good 3-blade heads. WW's are basically just stretched out Snuffers with a smaller cutting diameter.

If you want to use a 3-blade butcan't sharpen a broadhead very well, Muzzy is the best repaceable blade head to use. Just lay the facets on that trocar tip down flat on a hone and they'll sharpen up real nice. In effect, sharpening that tip makes them a cut on contact head.

My favorites though are Magnus II's or Zwickey Eskimos. They are the closest thing to the old yellow Bear Razorheads you can get nowadays.Zwickey used to make the Razorhead for Bear until he started producing them himself. Those oldRazorheads weremy favorite of all.

Why do I use them? They are inexpensive. Sharpen up like razors. And they work just fine.

[Guss]

I dont like the mechanicals much either, even when used with compounds. I think they are a way of getting around good old practice. I have alot of freinds who shoot mecanicalswhohave had them not even open up and one freind this fall had only one blade open.These guys all shoot compounds. On deer its one thing on big animals it is another.

Just untill this year, the only head I have ever used were Muzzys 125, 3 blades. I have never killed anything big with them but they worked good on small deer. I like them becuse they are vary SHARP.

This year I switched to Zwickies because AP sugested them. I didnt get a chance to use them.

[BobCo19-65]

Mechanicals with traditional gear?


I have used Magnus and Stos in the past, but went with Magnes Stinger 150 grain heads with bleeders last year. I'll probably stay with them unless Muzzy keeps their promise and releases the Phanton in sizes bigger then 125 grain.

Hey, I guess Muzy has done it:

[Rangeball]

I'm currently using the Wensel Woodsman for deer (biggest thing I hunt) out of a 45# bow. I chose them due to their narrow profile and low price

I really like the look of that new heavy Phantom, and if someday I find myself shooting a bow with enough oomph to get them through a deer, I may give them a try. Or maybe the new stainless steel snuffer that's supposed to be coming out. How much heavier to you think I'd have to go poundage wise?

I went with 3 blades because I want a hole, not a slit. While there's always exceptions, anecdotal evidence seems to support 3 blades being superior in this regards.