ORIGINAL: mobowhuntr

I shoot them because of the large cutting diameter. The day they can make a fixed blade head w/ a 2" cutting diameter fly as well asaRocket, I'll try them. Bigger hole = more blood loss = dead deer faster.

Admittedly, in the early days of the mechanical broadhead, they didn't always open and had their flaws.......Such as the old Punchcutter....I HATED those things......I lost the first deer I ever shot w/ a bow with one of those, but I did see her alive and well a couple weeks later. Only thing I can figure is that it didn't open....AND the cutting diameter wasn't as big back then either.

Look at some of today's mechs......Aftershock makes one w/a 2 3/4" cutting diameter, and it looks like a cycle bar......Mean looking critter, I'll tell you that. There have been SO many advances in technology that the I honestly feel like there is no DISadvantage to using them anymore, unless you shoot low poundage (under 45). Bows are so efficient today that they produce well over 100% KE, todays arrows are better and the broadheads themselves are MUCH better. The issue of not opening has been addressed by the makers, and if it were a SERIOUS issue, I just don't think there would be as many to choose from as there are. Poor tuning or not, folks just aren't gonna keep shooting deer and losing them because of the BH. Mech's work, and there's simply no way around that.