RE: what is the dislike for mechanicals?
This past season was my first season ever using fixed heads. The past 4 previous I have used rocket steelhead 100's. I got full passthroughs on every deer I every flung a steelhead at....but the blood trails sucked. I mean with a low exit would through the chest cavity...the hole was just too small.
Now that I have become more experienced with the aspects of tuning my bow I decided to step up to fixed heads. I shot two dear this year...an point that I shot with a 125 grain muzzy, and a doe that I shot with a 125 grain wasp sst. Both 1 3/16 inches in diameter. Talk about massive hemoraging and a quick trail. I'm pretty sure I'll be sticking with the wasps over the muzzy though. The wasps are twice as sharp, and the solid ferule, I feel anyways, makes them a little stronger. I have pancaked a muzzy and if there was any structural support down the middle other than the blades it wouldn't have compressed like it did. I just feel that big diameter fixed blade heads are the way to go.