Let me post a picture of my new broadhead... under the line of thinking by a few folks here..... I am anticipating having to scrape bloody morsals off the trees directly into gallon zip lock bags with a putty knife.... a mortar attack couldn't leave a more grizzly scene than this!!! Forget no tracking... I'm not even going to need to field dress!







Seriously now.... we've been over the rubber band test... and its a good one. Another related test... try cutting a rubber band with a knife... and they try pulling one apart with your hands.... see which one takes more effort....

I hate to admit this, but I think it is pertinant to the example at hand here. I HAVE personally.... ME... not a friend, not a cousin, not big John at the bait shop.... ME... I have shot and killed a deer with Muzzy PRACTICE blades. Yes I recovered it... and no I didn't do it on purpose. The simple truth of the matter is that I got extremely lucky... I center punched the heart on that deer. It is no big suprise of course that it went about 80 yards and quit. I missed it the first time, and blindly grabbed another arrow from my quiver... deer was cooperative and held still.... lesson learned.... never carry anything other than real, sharp, functional, hunt read heads in your quiver (I do carry a bludgeon though... but it is dressed and fletched differently than my broadhead arrows). I would say that the blood trail was fairly normal of a well shot deer. The difference is.... ALL blood has to go through the heart... its grand central station. The lungs are big... and some of those capilaries and arteries are a lot bigger than others.... the lungs aren't exactly like a ballon like some folks might think.... to collapse a lung you have to take out one of the bronchial tubes... that stops the air from entering the important part of the lungs where the alveoli put oxygen in and take CO2 out. You don't just get pink foam from any old part of the lungs.... you get pink foam from hitting one of the major tubes in the lungs.

Will a dull broadhead go through a deer? Hell... just look at lead round balls or buckshot... they zip right through a deer... so will non-expanding, "armor piercing" rifle bullets. And all three of these in my experience (save the armor piercing which are illegal dang near everywhere) leave terrible (bad terrible, not good terrible) blood trails. They push their way through. Expanding bullets form sharp edges, and leave larger wound channels. Granted, they still push their way though, but there is some seriously cutting done by expanding copper and lead. Why bother with hollow point or soft tip expanding ammunition if that was not the case?

Bullets, with only certain exceptions, do in fact kill just like arrows do.... unless you hit the animal with a bullet in exactly the right cardiovascular cycle, which creates a back-flow of blood to the brain and blows out the blood vessels in the brain, or severe the nervous system... a bullet is really little more than a device which lets blood flow from the body... the more blood lost, the lower the blood pressure, and soon you have unconsciousness, blood carries oxygen which the brain needs, brain shuts down... dead. There is no "shock wave" of energy, though it may appear so... that is little more than incompressable fluids rippling from the impact... like ripples on a pond. Look at a slow motion video of someone getting punched... same effect.