Well....finally tried out a 2blade rage for the 1st time. Im not sure what to say. I had a 25 yard broadside shot on a big body spike yesterday morning. Let me 1st say I'm a huge fan of mechanicals but this is the 1st time I've had a shot with the Rage head.

I shot a tad high and hit the lung area on the deer, this deer was pretty much 100% broadside not quartering either way. The arrow did not pass completely thru but was sticking out of the deer about a foot on the opposite side, so the broadhead passed completely thru but not the arrow. I got a very clear view of the deer after the shot. It ran towards me a bit and then turned and went up into the woods. It was shot in a grassy field. I waited about an hour before I got out of the stand.

I use a 335FPS IBO bow. I have a 30" draw/70lbs and my arrows weigh close to 500grains. This is the 1st time I havent had a complete pass thru with this bow using mechanicals, some of which have larger cutting dia. then do the rage.

Here's were things get fishy.....like I said I saw the arrow was sticking out about 12" on the opposite side of the deer(broadhead went thru deer but arrow didnt completely pass thru) but I got almost zero blood for the 1st 50 yards or so walking over to the woods. At that point I stopped called buddies on the radio and waited another hour or so to start tracking in the woods. 1st 50 yards was in the field.

I got guys rounded up and we started tracking the deer. (apprx 2.5hours later from when I shot) about 50 yards in the woods of where I thought he ran we finally started seeing blood. About 200 yards in, we found my arrow and blood all over the sides of saplings. We then started tracking good blood on ground and on sides of trees. We tracked pretty good blood for another 1000yards or so up and down ridges. We were taking breaks along the way, the blood trail finally went away and we never found the deer. I've never seen so much blood come out of an animal witout dieing. He must have stopped for an IV or something.

Odd things were...no real blood trail for the 1st 100 yards or so, Arrow didnt pass thru and it was a pretty good(not perfect) lung shot. Like I said I clearly viewed both sides of the deer after the shot.

So IDK was this a rage thing or just bad luck or what. Im not going to say a bad word about the broadhead cause frankly I don't know for sure. Part of me really wanted to find the deer not just because of the obvious but to see what the entrance and exit holes looked like.

I will be back in the woods and will have another rage on my arrow but may be second guessing myself when I draw....IDK honestly. Im heading back over today to again look for the deer. It was warm here yesterday so its ruined by now but I really want some answers to what really happened.