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Don't jude a broadheadsperformance ability by the overall size alone. There are many broadheads on the market that are quite large but cut a small diameter hole and there are many that are quite small overallbut cut a huge hole.

Overall large heads with a small cutting diameter would include Steel Force, Magnus stinger and others

Overall small heads with a very large cutting diameter would include Slick Tricks, Muzzy MX4 and others.

Also consider how many blades the head has. A 3 blade with a 1-1/8" cutting diameter will not cut as much tissue as it is passing throughas a 1"diameter four blade head. Convert them to a two blade head and the three blade would have a cutting width of 1.68" while the four blade head would have a cutting width of 2 inches.

Then consider how much KE you are getting from your arrow. If you can't get a broadhead with a vary large cutting diameter through the animal than that huge cut does you no good. On the other hand if you ae generating 70 or 80 pounds of KE then you will be able to put even the largest head through any deer.

Slick tricks, which are by far my favorite head,have one of the largest cutting diameters of any fixed blade head yet penetrates like a head of much smaller size. While it may be 1-1/8", which seems pretty normal across the board, you have to consider that it has 4 blades instead of the typical three. Convert it to a two blade head and it translates into a 2.25" cutting width. That's only1/4" smaller than the Vortex 125and a half inch smaller than the Hypershock 125. That's a whole lot of cutting going on. Now convert it into a three blade head andit would havea 1.5" cutting diameter.