ORIGINAL: adewilde
I've used both mechanical and fixed. My expierences with fixed left a lot to be desired with a wounded deer i never found, i managed to find 8 spots of blood over 400 yards from the shot and that was it. The other draw back of fixed I could not get them to fly right after 20 yards. Since then i have switced to the Spitfire expandables. Of the four deer i shot the furthest went 200 yards. I shot two at an angle and don't see with this broadhead how it would deflect off an animal that is quarting unless it was standing strait away. Me personally I will continue to use my Spitfire mechanicals.
I don't think he meant the arrow could deflect. They have been know to "cartwheel". That meaning that as the head enters on a quartering shot the blade that contacts the hide first creates drag thus "throwing" the tail end of the arrow sideways as it enters. This can alter the path the arrow takes through the animal and greatly impede penetration.
As for only having 8 spots of blood over 400 yards? Any sharp head placed in the boiler will yield buckets of blood very soon after the impact unless something blocks the wound channel. Sharp blades rom a well tuned bow is the secret. Remember the words "well tuned". This is the shooters responsibility.