Just amazing to me that I have never had a expandable fail to open on a deer or a target. None of the 15 or more people I personally know who bowhunt have ever had one fail to open on a deer or a target. None of the hundreds of members of a local Alabama forum that I have been a member of for the past 12 years have ever reported that an expandable failed to open.

Then you come to certain websites and there are people who claim that it has happened to them over and over again. Sometimes with multiple different brands of heads. And not only that, but happened to practically every other bowhunter they personally know as well.

Hard for me to fathom that a problem so widespread that it could occur that many times in the experience of one man and his friends could on the other hand never occur even once in group of hundreds of other bowhunters.

And that is why I take any claim that a fold from the front head did not open with a huge grain of salt before I put any stock in it.

First question is "Did you find the deer?" Cause if you or they didn't then you have no way of knowing what happened.

Second question is did you check the head to see if the blades would open easily before you shot it? Because if you can easily open them by hand it defies logic that they would not open on a deer.

Third question, was it a used head or had you modified it in any way. I have tied some shut to use them on a practice target and I'm telling you not just any string would hold them shut. It generally took multiple wrappings of something like dental floss to get them to stay shut. Further reason it's hard for me to buy the "they don't open" stuff.

Tell ya what. We can have a test/bet. Lets buy 100 expandable broadheads. I'll pick the brands. We will shoot every one into a broadhead target. For every one that opens you give me 20 dollars. For every one that fails to open I'll give you 100 dollars. Deal? Hope so cause I could use the 2 grand with christmas coming up.