Oh boy! I am in over my head now<img src=icon_smile_clown.gif border=0 align=middle>
c903, I agree with you that deer hide and luon board are not a deer. It does not react to the shot, it is not lubricated throughout, and it doens't have the bumbs and "holes" a real deer would. My test was not meant to actually say what would happen in a deer. I have been around way to long and seen some very strange things in animals. The test does however show how two differnt broadheads compare in the identical material, shot at the same angle, from the same distance at the same time. The deer hide was fresh, and very slippery( it had been rained on). My point with these tests is that I feel with good shot choices the Slick Trick heads should preform well. I can see any head deflecting on to steep and angle, in fact I once had a shot gun slug "ride" along the ribcage on steep quartering shot. Broke every rib going up and lodging in the shoulder. I cut an artery runing down the front leg and recoverd the deer. If a shot gun slug can do that, I know a broadhead tipped arrow will! My point to all of this was to see if their was some kind of major defect in the slick trick's that made quartering shots impossible, or not recomended. I think I showed that to some degree any way, that they work pretty well. Yes they did skip a little more than a more "conventional" head, but only an 1", which in my mind is not all that great considering the steep angle. I don't dispute any of what you say really, but like in my broadhead tests, the materials and information provided only show how the heads do compared to one another in identical materials. Take this knowledge, based on what I know from the deer I have killed with a bow amd similer broadheads, and I will make a semi-educated guess that the Slick Trick heads will work fine with a properly tuned bow and arrow combination and eithical shot placement. Now, thier will always be the exception, and like I said before, a lot of strange things can happen in living animals once and arrow strikes.
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