BetterBirddogs

I have shot a buck from 25 yards with the grim reaper. The penetration was amazing with the reaper. It wasn't a pass through though. About 3/4 of the way through. I shot a big doe from 17 yards with a rage 2 blade. The angle was steep but the rage didn't even come out the other side. These were both 100 grain heads. I normally shoot thunderhead 85 grain fixed blade heads and they pass through almost everything.

Here's my dilema. I have a rage left and was thinking about putting it on one of my girlfriends arrows so she could shoot it. If I can't get the rage to come out the other side shooting a Mathews SQ2 with 27 inch arrows at 74 lbs of draw then would it be dumb to have her shoot it out of a Bowtech Diamond shooting 25 inch arrows at 48 lbs.

I'm no expert having only fired the rage one time but my buddy shot a nice buck with one at 9 yards last year and it didn't come out the other side either. He's shooting a Swithback XT 60 lbs with 29 inch arrows. It seems the rage loses a lot of energy after it hits. In the rages defense it does destroy the inside of a deer.

The buck I shot with the reaper and the doe I shot with the rage neither deer made it 50 yards.

With as much energy as the rage loses it makes me paranoid to shoot it out of a low poundage setup. What do you think?