Matt, my experience with mechanicals is as much and variedas yours if not more. I'm glad they work great for you, but I know you are very particular with your equipment and setup. Most on this board probably are. The sad truth is a lot of Bowhunters are not. While you may not be a victim of any marketing hype that does not mean countless have not been. I have a friend that would screw anything on the end of his arrow to kill deer withas long asa certain Celeb hunterdid. Many others are the same, and many were the victim of marketing, but that's what marketing is all about.They did an A+ job. NowI have seen junk broadheads in my day, but we are lucky today and most heads I am familar withare good quality broadheads that will get the job done. If you chose to use mechanicals you need to be shooting more than enough KE to get the job done, and realize the limits of your equipment and limit your shots in accordance. Last failure I was a witness to was a 3 bladed expandable shot right through both lungs. The friend who shot him and I tracked him well over 200 yards and I do mean tracked him. long process and when I thought we were not going to find him we did. After field dressing and examining him it was obvious only one blade had deployed. We neither could see any reason this should have happened. This was an expandable that I had always thought was one of the best. There was No Bigger mechanical addict than I was a few years ago, believe me. After seeing a few, and there only were a few of these type scenarios I gave them up. Maybe these new generation of mechanicals are incapable of failure? I hope so!! I have not used a mechanical on anything bigger than a Turkey since 03.
I honestly can't see why I need to take that risk. I love gadgets and the Mini Blaster 4L was one of my favorites. I loved knocking those huge 4 blade 1 3/4" holes through them, but I won't take any kind of risk. I still have yet to see anything Mechanical whether it's a broadhead or not that does not have an occasional failure. I know as close as Murphy stays to me....................well you know. I can buy lots of Broadheads at dealer cost and can shoot pretty muchany head I want. There are a lot of broadheads I would walk into the woods with and not think twice about whether that head would do it's job or not. I do prefer fixed blades.
Now does Scent Blocker really work? Light arrows or heavy arrows? We each have our preferences
Just because mine is not the same as yours does not make either of us wrong or right
Dan