I guess my statement may have been a bit to general to get my point across.

What I was seeing from this thread was a positive correlation between quality and price of broadheads which I feel is not reality. Now if you were talking about just using quality broadheads for bowhunting, I' d agree 100%. By all means use quality broadheads. But quality heads are not necessarily represented by price. In fact, some of the best heads out there are also the cheapest. There are also some very expensive heads out there that are pure junk. An archer can not assume that the more he spends on broadheads, the more he will get in quality. Now if an archer cannot afford the most expensive (not necessarily quality) heads, should he be in the woods hunting, of course he should, because there are some very cheap excellent quality heads out there available. But no matter what head he is using he needs to put the arrow in the right place, the archer himself is what gets the job done no matter equipment he uses.

Let me give you an example of two quality heads that are very different in price. I have used Magnus Heads a lot and still do on my Parker Feather Mag II compound. I can practice with the same dozen blades all year, and then use the same heads for hunting in the fall (after sharpening them). Very few would disagree that these are some of the best penetrating heads on the market, and I can honestly shoot 2-2 1/2 inch groups with them at 30 yards (my limit on hunting whitetails). I paid all of $40 for these heads (dozen). And I believe that these are the cheapest heads on the market. To note, these heads have a lifetime warranty on them. Are they the newest, shiniest, most popular, most marketed heads out there - no. Now let’s put them up against some of the new titanium cut on contact heads out there. I saw them in the Cabelas catalog at 3 for $37. Now that’s $148 per dozen. Now are you honestly going to tell me that if I put either head through both lungs (which I am 100% sure as an archer that I can do) that it' s going to make a difference which one I use? So does spending $108 dollars more really make sense? Would I be " silly" to not spend a few extra bucks?

Now let me explain what I meant when I said that the archer does the work. It is the archer that must know what is able to kill within his limitations (including equipment, ability, etc.). It is the archer that is directly responsible for taking the game. As such, he is the one as an archer and hunter who should get the most credit for the kill. But, he must know his hunting skills and capabilities. He must know the deer’s anatomy as well as other things such as trailing. The archer must make choices of his hunting equipment based on his budget. If he finds that he is not capable of spending the money on the high end, then he must know what is available to him on the low end. He must be informed on what is quality and what is not quality and make choices appropriately. Like I tried to show in my example I guarantee that there is equipment out there that is not expensive that will work and kill game quickly and humanly. Going out and spending as much as he can assuming that the more he spends on his equipment the better the quality he will get is not reality.

BobCo