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Old 02-24-2006 | 08:08 AM
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Default RE: Thunderhead broadheads

Some of your are going to hate me for this: But I won't ever use them again, I will try to make a long story short.

I'm friends (business friends) with a guy from ID who does a lot of Elk hunting. I asked him what broadheads her perfers for hunting elk and he said Muzzy. I asked what he thought about Thunderheads (that is what I used at the time) and he said "one of his hunting partners used to use them and once he shot an elk, hit it in the shoulder and it broke the broadhead. Since they are only supported or fastened by the tip and end of the blade, it don't take much to break them." I though, well I'm hunting deer not elk so I'll continue to use them.

BUTthat next fall, I was out deer hunting. And there was this squirrell that ran around my stand and was continuously setting off my game camera, so one day I just got out there and seen the squirrell 10 yards away. Since my hunt was just beginning, I nocked an arrow (a duller broadhead I use for if I have a shot at turkeys) and shot the squirrell. I hit it right in the back of the head and left it down there until dark when I was ready to go home. At dark I went and got my arrow and the squirrell, I looked at my broadhead and the EXACT SAME THING happening just from shooting the squirrell. A blade busted just from shooting the squirrell because it was only supported at the tip and the end. That is when I switched to Muzzy because a deer is tougher than a squirrell.

I have taken deer with Thunderheads, but I just thought I would share the story of why I switched.
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