ORIGINAL: bigbulls

I have never had one fail but I have had a bad experience from one. NAP shockwave.

I will be the first to admit that the shot was a little far back and I think I ended up pushing the elk and never found him. Not recovering the elk was my fault and a very hard lesson learned.

On to the head..... The shot was too far back (liver). Being a mechanical I did not get much of an entrance wound and the arrow only stuck out the offside. So with no entrance wound to speak of and the arrow plugging the exit wound the blood trail was sparce at best. Had I been using a good fixed head like my current slick tricks there is no doubt in my mind that the arrow would have completely passed through the elk, I would have had an arrow to examine the type of shot, there would have been a huge entrance hole, and chances of recovering that elk would have been much higher.

While I doubt that the head failed, hind sight being what it is, I sure wish i had a fixed blade head on that hunt.