First let me state that I've been using mechanicals recently. I think most would agree that mechanicals, GENERALY, do not penetrate as well as fixed heads (all else being equal) but here's where I'm going with this.

The first week of October I was on a hunt with a buddy of mine, both with mechanicals and similar KE, 70/72 ft lbs. I was lucky enough to take 2 nice does with my setup, got pass throughs on both but the back half of the arrow hung up in them and pulled out a few yards down the trail (76 grn rocket miniblaster 3L). Both good broadside shots with animals recovered within 100 yards.

My buddy was shooting a 2 blade mechanical (125 grn vortec) and experienced complete pass throughs with enough energy coming out the back side to "stick in the ground". This, combined with the impressive results from your recent field test of the new 2 blade "rocket", has got me wanting to switch to a 2 blade setup.

My resident pro talked me out of making this switch on the grounds that I would be sacrificing too much cutting diameter, or cutting length, or hemoraging, whatever! Do you have any experience or test results that would give me an idea what the tradeoff would be, 3 blades to 2?

Good Luck All....Fletch