RE: slick trick blood trails
I've used a half dozen BHs. None impressed me like the STs. I was aiming for heart on my quartering away buck this year and hit high. All I got was one lung. However, I got a 500 yard blood trail along with it. The other 4 deer dropped within sound or sight topped with blood splatter everywhere.
I don't think you are switching BHs just cus your friends is giving you some imho bad advice but if you do, you'd be doing yourself a disservice.