huntmup
huntmup

Regarding your comment:

You have no reason to feel as you say you do. Evaluation of any product is best when the results of performance, reliability, and durability is obtained from when the product is actually used in accordance with purpose of design and under the real conditions the product is proclaimed to perform with particular and acceptable results. Shooting through steel barrels, rubber tires and plywood might be impressive and entertaining, However, I believe most bowhunters do not hunt steel barrels, rubber tires, and plywood.

I want to hear from people like you; someone who has used the product and presents their experience and the results with the product as you have, and in the manner that you did, which I consider exemplary. I do not lay total credence -sometimes not at all, on manufacturer hype, or that which any person or organization that is in the manufacturer' s corner has to say.

Any projectile is subject to deflection (ricochet); some more than others depending upon certain conditions, which definitely includes the angle that the projectile is making contact, the type of surface(s) being impacted, and the design and material of the projectile.

I am not an engineer, nor do I have a degree in physics or aeronautics; However, I am learned and experienced in certain matters regarding penetrative results and interior/exterior deflection (paths) of various projectiles in and on certain material, including living tissue. I do have a good mechanical aptitude, good reasoning ability, and common sense…although my reasoning and common sense has, at times, been misguided or absent. Additionally, I have hunted with a bow for a very long time, and have used a multitude of different types of " fixed blade" broadheads.

My experience is an assisting factor, but common sense alone tells me that projectiles that have a high or higher profile appendage, such as a wing on a broadhead, can have a greater tendency to deflect at a particular angle, than a projectile with a low or lower profile appendage making contact at the same angle.

This phenomenon (deflection) and the possibility of occurrence would be increased or decreased by 1: the height of the blades, 2: the degree of angle of the blades (severe or gradual), 3: the piercing design of the tip (puncture or cut-on-contact), 4: the tip shape (cone or Trocar ), and 5: where the blades are set in the projectile ( in this case a ferrule).

I can easily theorize; 1: a broadhead having high profile blades with a severe angle from apex to base, 2: set too close to the front of a short tip, 3: a tip that penetrates more by punching than cutting, will most likely have more of a tendency to deflect off of certain surfaces at a certain angle; than a: a broadhead having blades with a lower profile, b: having a gradual degree of angle from apex to base, and c: set back from the tip.

If the tip of a broadhead is entering at a angle that allows the apex of the blade to contact a hard surface, -such as a rib bone, before the tip can dig in and start cleaving to/within flesh muscle, bone, etc; it does not take a rocket scientist to explain how deflection can occur. Therefore, I do believe that high profile blades set too close to the tip can, in all likelihood, have a greater tendency to deflect at an angle of penetration that a lower profile blade set back further from the tip might not.

Do I believe that " Slick Trick" broadheads are an overall bad performing broadhead? No, I do not! Do I believe that the design could cause the broadhead to have a greater tendency to deflect then another blade with a lower profile and longer point? Yes, I do! Will I use the " Slick Trick?" No, I won' t! Was the information I have read in this thread, and " huntmup' s" thread responsible for my decision? Somewhat! I like the head I presently use and have had great success and experience with the heads, as others I hunt with have had. Was " huntmup' s" thread credible, informative, and instructive? Most definitely was!

The information " huntmup" and others have provided is what makes sites like this (HNC) a valuable source of information. You get many sides of a story to help make a decision; not just the manufacturer' s/dealer' s hype.

Tell me that there are hunting projectiles of a certain design that will never deflect, or that a particular design cannot have a greater tendency to deflect than any other design, I will tell you to talk to my hand because my face ain' t listening!