RE: SlickTrick Broadhead failure? (pics & long)
Hello, I don't much post on these, some of them don't want you to unless you pony up some loot. Up to now I only had one guy tell me my heads didn't fly like fieldtips, and now a guy tells me my head "deflects". Guess what- its the same guy! I found Shanes experience to be the exception to the rule and I hadn't deleted it from earlier. I will share a bit of the email with you. "I put the SlickTricks on & they hit low & right at 4:30 about 2.5 inches. Flat and straight out to 40, but 2.5 off at 20." By the way, you read that correctly, it is quoted perfectly. As far as the first doe kill, "I think they have better penetration than the Muzzys & they did the job this week. I filled one of my doe tags on Tuesday morning & the head did its job quite well. My shot was just a bit less than perfect but the head only made for a 50 yard chase. I took her 1/4'ing away at a steep angle & should have been just a bit more forward- maybe 3 inches. The head entered just in front of the hind 1/4 (nicked the front edge of the ham) and came out just behind the front shoulder taking rib bone on the way out. Total passthrough & the arrow was buried in the dirt 10 inches too." He closes with "Have a good one & keep making the good heads!" I will let everybody that email speak for itself, and I have sent it to 5shot so he can verify it. Sometines your imagination just gets the better of you. The last buck pic puzzles me also. Like Joe PA I see a big hole right behind the shoulder, not where the shot should be on a quartering animal. I don't see any sign of any deflection, no marks at all behind the wound. Frankly if I hit there and recovered the deer and saw the damage the head made I would have been a happy camper. And sure enough, like I said earlier through Eric, somebody who made a bad shot and saw this post now claims to have lost the animal because of "deflection". Oh well, one thing you learn on these sites is that you aren't singled out, every head there is has somebody disappointed somehow somewhere. Thats just how it is, and my 2 cents, Thanks Gary