jakelogsdon of course nobody want to make a bad shot ..... let me ask this, do you carry a spare tire expecting to have a flat?
shooting heavy arrows and COI fixed heads work when the shots go great, and when they go bad? they give you your best chances at still killing the animals
http://tradgang.com/noncgi/ultimateb...ubb=forum;f=24
everything you want to know about why arrows penetrate is in the above studies.
its not about KE and its not about speed - how an arrow penetrates has everything to do with weight and the structural dynamics of the arrow and head
small diameter arrows that are heavy, have loaded FOC and are tipped with a bomb proof COI 2 blade will give you the best penetration possible
here's an example
http://www.limcroma.com/bowhunting.htm
what does the above say?
" We recommend a fixed blade cut on impact. No mechanical broadheads "
why in the world not? If they're so great, why do many African PH's not allow them?
becuase they suck at penetration qualities.
now, you're not going to shoot a cape buffalo tonight ... but the fact remains mechanicals do not penetrate as well and how many threads do we have on here right now on animals shot, poorly hit, or lost or missed?
shots go bad - they do - you control up until the arrow leaves your riser, then any numbers of things can happen including hitting an unseen twig, the deer moving, misjudged yardages etc you know ?
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1. You have NEVER shot the head = TRUE
never will, I don't shoot broadheads that will fail me, I don't need to
2. MY results with the 2-blade Rage have been all passthroughs shooting a average speed bow by today's standards.
what does speed matter?
3. MY belief is the Rage is the best head that I have shot in my 29 years of bowhunting
well that's factually false - "best" would mean a combination or durability (Rage's are not durable) and excellent penetration qualites (Rage doesn't have that)
4. 100,000's of bowhunters use them so I have hard time believing we all can be wrong.
asbestos was used for a while and it was being sold as the greatest insulator every created. how'd that end up?
a sharp field point can kill deer - are they a good choice?
Rage marketed the product brilliantly
But you have tried to tell people who have had great success with the head that they are wrong. How does that make sense?
I killed a deer once with a Puckett's Bloodtrailer. Horrible head. I went 1 for 1, 100% success rate with it.
Do you understand that using junk can still work? Doesn't mean its a great idea.
I will add one more thing: I have a hard time believing that out of the kindness of your heart that you go to such great lengths to help other hunters by bashing Rage BH's so extensively without some kind of alterior motive.
I bash all mechanicals - Rage just in this thread. What alterior motive would that be annika? I own all fixed blade companies out there? LOL
I'm getting to be an older bowhunter, and my experiences over the past 25 years has some merit and meaning and I've chosen to be swayed by the latest and greatest archery gadgets etc and in the end? I found that the bowhunters who forged what bowhunting IS was right all along. Heavy arrows, big COI broadheads. that's it - that's the key, it always has been and companies selling light, fast, and gadget broadheads? they're just making money and bowhunters suffer for it by lost animals
sorry - look at the videos, watch Tiffany Lakosky as she shoots and gets a massive 6-8" penetration
......... look at all the threads going this season on bad hits, lost animals, mechanicals failing them again ....
this isn't made up stuff