I have a hard time believing slick tricks fly better than the strikers arrowum. The strikers flight is about as good as you can possibly get with a fixed blade head, and from what I hear the slick tricks are pretty good also. Both heads are all steel furrels. I shot a doe this year with my strikers. She was about 30 yards facing me, she turned and ducked at the shot so my arrow entered high in the shoulder. After going through the shoulder it blew threw the bottom of the spine where all the ribs attach and stopped just infront of the offside hindquarter. Now any broadhead that goes through all that and is still intact is an awsome head. If your so worried about weak blades maybe you should get away from the replacable blade type heads, hence the name if the dull, break, bend any of the above you can replace them.