ORIGINAL: GMMAT
You are dead wrong on that. I have taken out BOTH shoulders on a buck with a Muzzy.Dropped him on his nose. I have gone through the shoulder on others for a kill. I have abuddy that hasblown through shoulders with a fixed blade also.All this on large midwestern deer.Shoot at enough deer and someday it is going to happen. When it does, I would take a smaller fixed blade over any large mechanical EVERY time. I have tried both. Any head through the lungs will kill. Not every head on marginal hits will.IF you ever shoot as many deer as some on this board have, you will stop the snide comments about shot placement, because it will happen to you too.
You mean that cartilage bladed shoulder? Mince meat for ANY BH.
I've only killed 16 with my bow.....and yeah...I've had a few bad hits, too. But I've never hit a bone with a mechanical that a fixed BH would have "blown through". Not once. In fact....the only bone I've hit (other than a rib) is eitherthat rib bone or an off-side leg. I've spinedtwo, also.....and there isn't a BH out there to go through a deer's spine. In the case of the ribs....."butter". In the case of the off side leg bone.....again...
.NO BH is gonna penetrate hard bone. Not one.
Nothing "snide" about my comments. It's a known fact. Hit a bone.....and you're not going to penetrate too far. Hit a bone....and you've made a bad shot. And yeah....I've had my share of bad shots. Luckily.....most have worked out, though.
Careful saying NEVER. On my bear hunt, I went length wise through my bear exiting out the rear ham (Bear was bedded) and I sheared the rear femur bone (very large hard bone) dead center with a perfect Muzzy 3 blade pattern. The broadhead was destroyed on the rock the bear layed against. I should have kept that bone, that was pretty neat and impressed the guide/outfitter about bows.