I am not nor was I referring to a "notion" to possibly save an animals life. Let us refer to the "marginal hit". Say you shoot a 12 point 200" bruiser and get a "marginal hit". Say above the lungs, deer ducked the shot. Now with the 2" rage you may only slice open the deer's back causing a frustrating tracking job and no deer, until infection possibly sets in and the deer unkowingly dies. Now, let's say you make the same shot and you are shooting the small, insignificant 1 1/4" cut fixed blade. Chances are, it will either be a complete miss or a hair shaver, from which the deer will likely survive to be hunted again. I am saying that I would rather have a dead recovered deer than a lost miserable, suffering, infected one. That is all. Yes, things can happen with both types of broadhead. The chances for something going wrong with someones broadhead of choice is their/my decision. No one else's.