ORIGINAL: silentassassin
badshotbob,
My logic was that IMO you can't blame a broadhead for not making a good shot on a deer. If you had hit the deer where you were suppose to then this conversation would be moot because you would have found your deer piled up shortly there after. Not knocking a bad shot because we all make them, I am just saying that this 1 instance is not a valid test for any broadhead.
You are absolutely correct. It was a horrible shot (that's why I haven't hunted with the recurve since then - I am consistent on the range but fall apart over a deer, so I went back to my compound and pins).
My other point is that "the mechanical failed to open" is essentially a fallacy that I have yet to see proven. I am not saying that it's never happened, I am just saying that the IMO that the instances of it happening are so rare that I doubt anyone else here has either.
Well, it happened to me. Could have been the shot angle? Although I was only 15 feet up and the deer was about 20 yards out quartered away slightly. Or could it have been the recurve? Not sure.