Between seven and eight years ago I used various (3, 4 bld) Miniblasters on 3 whitetails. The heads fell apart in every case...tips torn from ferrules, ferrules bent to 30+ degrees, blades bent or missing, etc.. In one case, the head only penetrated 4" into the chest of a buck on a simple broadside shot. Since bent ferrules impede penetration and bent/missing blades don' t cut, I felt fortunate to find the deer and quit using them after that.

Since I had also had occassional head failures even with popular modular fixed blade heads, I decided to try a more conservative one-piece/ cut-on-contact head. After I sent the first one through both shoulder blades of a buck and found the head sustained no damage, I decided to stick with that style. Eight or nine deer later, and with 275 fps compounds and 150 fps selfbows, I haven' t had a head failure or anomalously shallow penetration issue yet.