Do you recomend that most rifle hunters should just stick to the time tested 30/30 and live with the limited accuracy and power this cartrige offers? Would you say that a 20 gauge shotgun slug has more than enough power for anyone and that the 12 guage is overkill? Would you suggest that we all write letters to each other and send them via Pony Express instead of e-mailing each other? Times change, equipment gets invented with the prospects of making a profit on it's manufacture and the idea of creating jobs for American workers. Are you still heating your house with coal, writing your letters with a quill pen, making your own soap, see where I'm going with this??
Every time I hear that argument presented, it gets more and more absurd. Change for the sake of change. Bah!
Is writing with a ballpoint pen BETTER than writing with a quill? No. Just different. In fact, writing with the quill pen might even be better. More thought and personal attention brought to bear on what is being written, rather than the sloppy, careless penmanship you often see with the ballpoint.
I like getting e-mails from my friends. But even better is getting a handwritten letter in the mail. There's something much more warm and personal in a handwritten letter. Which is better? Speed and convenience is great but, sometimes, 'better' goes far beyond speed and convenience.
On it's own ground, the 30-30 isn't any less accurate and deadly than a 7 mag. A deer shot with the 7 mag isn't any deader than the one shot with the 30-30. And the 30-30 probably leaves more edible meat!
The deer killed with a selfbow and 1-inch wide stone pointed, wood arrow isn't any less dead than one killed with a 350 fps, 2.5" wide mechanically tipped carbon arrow. But the guy that killed his deer with a bow he made himself, with arrows he made himself and with stone points he made himself... he has put a lot of HIMSELF into his kill. What has the guy with the 350 fps carbon arrow put into his kill. Mostly money. Which way is BETTER? Well, I know which one gets my vote.
"NEW" does not mean "BETTER". It doesn't even necessarily mean "needed" or "desirable." Even as crippled up as I am, you couldn't run fast enough to give me half the junk on the archery shop shelves today.[:'(]
Alright, enough soapbox BS.[&:]
Back the the original question though, NO! Broadheads that leave holes in the deer big enough to step through are not needed. Nor do I think they are even desirable. Again, a smaller cutting broadhead put in the right place will kill the deer just as dead and not ruin quite as much meat. IMO, cutting diameters over 1.5" are overkill.