Rocket Miniblaster
Accuracy 5 points
Plywood 4 point
Steel drum 3 point
Orange 3 points
Blades 3 points
Cutting diameter 4 points
Total score 22 with a blade sharpness rating of C

The Rocket miniblaster is a 3blade swing open style mechanical broadhead. The cutting diameter is 1 ¾” and the total weight of the head is 75 grains. With a pathfinder point the head now becomes a 90grains. The performance difference with and without the pathfinder point is small, but I did find I prefer to use the head with the larger pathfinder tip. The larger tip gets through hard material like bone with less effort and less stress on the blades. The downside is that the larger tip will probably delay opening of the blades to some degree in what matters most, deer hair and hide. I tested the head both ways and the results changed only slightly and not enough to affect the “score”.
In the orange test the head opened fully by the time it exited. In the plywood with the pathfinder tip the head penetrated completely and with several inches of arrow shaft. Without the pathfinder tip the head still fully penetrated, but only by the slightest margin. I really had to look close to see if everything really made it through. In both cases two of three blades were badly bent/twisted and or broken off. To put it simply they were a mess. In the steel drum the head fully penetrated the first side with the tip sticking in the back. This time most of the cutting surface of a three blades was missing. Just as with the sidewinders the entrance hole showed that the head did not open full before the blades broke. I have mixed feelings on this. With the heads bending and breaking in hard materials they allow for more penetration. This would be handy in the case of heavy bone. On the other hand with every blade that breaks or twists the head looses cutting surface that reduces the amount of tissue damage it does. About the only kind of bone in a deer that could cause this kind of resistance would be the shoulder or hip. The bottom line, just as with the Rocket sidewinder/Cableas lazer Strike, I would have no problems at all in using this broadhead for deer size game with my setups. It would seem that Rocket has improved their broadheads over the last couple of years, at least the mechanical ones, and the miniblaster with or without the pathfinder point is a very good mechanical head.
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