Here, to prove this theory, once and for all!!! k, a couple days ago my buddy, shot a yearling with his bow. chip shot, 15yds, perfect placement, broadside etc. this was with a rage. that was thethird deer in the past two years he has killed with a rage. nonehad went further than 40yds thus far. this deer went around 70yds. whenhe was telling me about it he said she didnt bleed as much as the other two deer he killed with rages and he was wondering if its possible that b/c it was smaller it wouldnt bleed out as much. hes not the sharpest knife in the drawer obviously, so i did a little bit of his thinking for him.

I knew he had had 2 kills with them and he never sharpened or repaired the blades. so i asked him if the bh that he killed that yearling with was one that had killed a deer the previous year. he said no, but he missed one last year with it and it just burried itself in the ground. so... he shot a deer, (PERFECT SHOT PLACEMENT) just as the other 2 had been, and he got a different result of bleeding. last year, he described blood trailing those deer as if someone dumped a milkjug of blood along the path. this time there was less bleeding and a farther distance the deer ran.

although, not scientific theory (basically chime ins, or guesses by everyone) i believe this story if you will holds more water to it than a jagged cut or clean cut clotting "theory" if you will. This is a no BS true story from a killabout a week ago. Like i said, hes definately not the brightest one in the world, but hes one of my best friends and a darn dedicated hunter, and left us with a heck of an example!

so far most of this thread has been a pissing contest with no real evidence ofan answer. i think that covered it pretty well. but im sure people are still gonna implicate that a dull head works just as well as long as it passes through(BS) it may do the job, just not as well.
Derek