I heard an interesting story about a mechanical(Rocket) last night at the range, just wondered if anybody has heard of similar happening??? Last fall a mulie buck was hit a little low just behind the front leg, the deer went over the hill with the arrow hanging out , wrenching as he trotted (the guy who shot it figured it would be working over the vitals as a fixed head should do while the deer was trotting away). To shorten this it took 8 hours and another shot to put the mulie down for good. Apparently the head opened up on impact & then snapped back to the closed postion. I know the guy very well who told me the story and have never known him to not be honest. He is an experienced bow hunter with a good number of harvests to his credit, so I have no reason to believe he is BSing me. Anybody hear stories or accounts similar to this before?

It seems with every positive story I hear at least 2 negative stories with regards to mechanicals, some can be attributed to poor shot, not enough KE, BH choice, etc. I just can' t bring myself to load mechs and switch from fixed BH' s which have never caused me a minutes worry.