ORIGINAL: bigbulls

Bullmoose, I never said anything was actually wrong with mechanical heads. Simply stating that fixed blade heads are better for the purposes of big game and there are a whole bunch that fly at least as good as a mechanical head.

Another thing that caught my eye is the statement about you working around a butcher shop and seeing all kinds of broadheads lodged in deer. That's exactly my point. I don't want my broadhead lodged in a deer or any other animal. I want it to pass all the way through and into the dirt. A sharp fixed blade head gives a much better chance of this happening than a mechanical, especially on hits that impact the shoulder blade.

It amazes me, and I use to be one of them, how many people want their hunting bow accessories to be as simple and reliable as possible yet want their broadhead to be as complicated as possible and have a bunch of moving parts that are more prone to failure.

I mean the Whisker Bisquit is such a popular rest becasue of its simplicity and reliability, people refuse to use a drop away cause they have too many moving parts, people all the time choose a fixed single pin sight for the simplicity and rugedness. And yet these same exact people will screw in a mechancal broadhead. The single thing that actually does the killing is the most complicated accessory they have. [&:]