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Old 11-19-2006 | 09:02 AM
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Thorneswift
 
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Default Expandable Broadhead malfunction

Yesterday was the first time I ever tried an expandable broadhead and it will be my last! I hit a big doe with a perfect shot while she was broadside and it hit with a really loud thunk with barely any penatration. She took off and I waited for an hour to track her. I picked up on a bright red blood trail and followed it for almost 1/4 of a mile until it turned into a few drops here and there and then stopped. I figured she was close so I waited another couple of hours and went back. I started following her tracks and jumped her. Apparently the mechanical broadhead jammed up on some ribs and stopped. Penatrating just enough to leave the arrow sticking out of her side but not enough to do much if any lung damage.

It's not worth it to have field point accuracy if the broadhead doesn't work right. We have enough to worry about with antihunters without having another deer running around with an arrow and it's bright fletching sticking out of her side for everyone to see.

I've talked to other people who have had failures of mechanical broadheads and if we want to limit the arguements of the antihunters maybe lowering the number of animals who wander off wounded by getting rid of expandables is a reasonable thought. Yes I understand that mechanical broadheads can work well but I challenge anyone to say that they are as stone reliable as a standard non mechanical broadhead. If I wasn't stupid enough to by a set of expandables and used a regular broadhead I would have a deer hanging rather than one running through the woods with an arrow sticking out of her side.

There's no good reason way a 17 yard shot with a perfect broadside centered in the lungs with a compound bow shouldn't have resulted in a fast kill. Other than that mechanical broadheads are NOT RELIABLE.
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