As many of you know their was or is some talk about slick trick broadheads and the steeper blade angles cuasing the broadhead to "skip" or slide across deer on hard quartering shots. I should say that I have realy only heard of two people having this problem, all the other reports on this head have been positive for the most part.
What I did was to take a golden key deadhead 100 grn, and a slick trick 100 grn. I shot them on 2219 arrows out of my Hoyt stryker II bow. The bow was setup and tuned to these arrows and 100 grn broadheads.
I then hung a fresh deer hide over a 1/4" piece of luon board and stood it up against a 3D target. The Shot distance was 25 yards. I shot several shots with each head at differnt angles. One thing I will say up front is that this target material is very slippery, the hide is soft and slippery, and the luon board is like on huge solid rib. I really found no differnce in how the heads preformed, except in the most extreme angle. Both heads pretty much "stuck" where they hit. The only exception was the most severe angle, which in my opinion is on the edge of what is aceptable for ethical shot placement, and most hunters would probably not take a shot like this, but it is still possible to get both lungs with the angle, but arrow placement has to be perfect.
On this severe angle the deadhead slid across the hide about an inch before "sticking" and penetrating. The slick trick slid about 2 inches before "sticking". On both heads you could see the hide ripped and the blade marks where the head slid across the board before the tip penetrated. In both cases the shots would have been a kill. The slick tricks did slide along the hide/luon combination longer than the three bladed deadhead, but not by all that much. I could see where it could be worse with both heads if the bow and arrow combination was not tuned properly, or if the shooter were to hit a small branch, or their clothing , cuasing arrow flight to be less than perfect. To sum all of this all up, yes the Slick Tricks can defelct, as can any broadhead. The angle at which this happens is pretty severe, so severe in fact that one should really think hard about taking that kind of shot with any broadhead. I would rate the deflection of the Slick tricks just behind most "conventional broadheads" and ahead of most mechanical heads. I would feel comfortable taking reasonable quartering shots with my bow and the slick tricks, and don't think it is really a problem for most hunters. Those using super lite arrows, say under 400 grns, may have more deflection, but that would apply to any broadhead. That is one of those tradeoff's you have to live with by giving up arrow weight for speed. I am not sure what I really proved or disproved here, but the test was intresting, if not very scientific.

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