RE: Mar-Den Mini-Max3 125 grn test results
DaveC,
I' m sorry. Yes, I' m referring to the three blade 2 inch cut model.
I' ve hit several in the offside shoulder and only one was not found. Not sure what happened on him. It was a fairly nice eight point and the shot looked good. He went into a huge cutover that was six foot high in every weed imaginable. The blood trail was good for about 100 yards and then petered out. The hit couldn' t have been as good as it looked from the stand or I would have found him. Only thing I can think is I hit too low and only got one lung. When the deer spun to take off, I could see the broadhead sticking out just below the offside shoulder, so I think it hit the leg bone. There was blood on both sides of the trail as well.
All the others went the standard 50 or 60 yards and dropped.
I had one other nice buck get away on a really steep shot angle. He was almost directly under me. I know from the angle, I only got one lung. That deer poured blood in places for over half a mile and still kept going. It was a perfect passthrough and stuck in the ground, but I learned on that deer that a one lung shot is definitely a no no. I punched a two inch hole through him and he kept right on trucking. I spotted buzzards coming out of the large tract that I lost the trail in, but never found the deer. I figure if a two inch, 3 blade cut won' t bring one down, no broadhead will. That' s the main reason I like to stay around 15 feet now. Hunting higher is OK if you can be reasonably sure the deer won' t come too close to the tree.