ORIGINAL: bigbulls
Aside from a couple of huge fixed blade heads not a single one impacted the same spot as field tips and all broadheads seemed to hit low and left 1-2 inchesregardless of what style head they are.
This indicates to me that just a little bit of fine tuning could have been done to bring most all of the broadheads to impact the same place as the field tips.
Then they shoot a 125 grain tip against all the other 100 grain heads which would have weakened the spine of the arrow as compared to the arrows with the 100 grain heads. If you are going to introduce variables like thatwhat good it the test?
I agree that shooting 125 grain heads with the 100 grain heads out of a bow tuned for a 100 grain head tipped arrow and on an arrow that is spined for a 100 grain head makes no sense. I kind of threw that test out of the equation.
However, with the 100 grain heads they were shooting it from a bow that put the arrow in the same hole over and over at 35 yards. You can't get any better tuned than that. I know there is tuning to the broadhead, which is a very effective tool, but this test was to look at how broadheads flew beyond 20 yards from a perfectly tuned bow. Some were very close, some were not. None were dead on.
What I took from this was that there is planing in all broadheads so it is important to practice at further distances to know how you should adjust and that a well tuned bow is essential for using hunting broadheads no matter what design they are.