First of all I will list the fixed blades my bow will shoot right with a field tip, just to get rid of any thought that the bow is not tuned. It is tuned and I can shoot. Magnus stinger, ultimate steel or any one of serval other that size. Muzzy four blade, first cut two blade or just about any other two blade I choose, Steel force. all these fixed blades I can and do from time to time hunt with.
I prefere a Mechanical. I started using a mechanical just to find out if all the claims about them failing were true or false. I can report that I have never had a problem with the mechanicals. So, I don't get why so many others calim they fail. Gee's am I that lucky to have never have had a failure? Nope not lucky, but I am not one to blame the equipment when something might not have gone according to plan.
one left no blood trail and i was thinking of changing to fixed blades the entire time i was looking for her. when i rolled her over, it was a high hit and exit.
the above statement sums up a lot of mechanical broadhead failures. People just didn't
do what they thought they had done. Since they can't find the deer they report what they thought they had done and the mechanical, once again gets a bad rap. Just for your info, if your exit wound is high you are not going to get a good blood trail with any broadhead.
Other reason I use a mechanical is for saftey reasons. I have tendency to cut things with sharpe exposed edges. Myself, bow strings, cables. everything just seems to find that edge. Mechanicals are safer for me.
When things didn't go according to plan, hit one shoulder with a Nap shockwave. pentrated the shoulder hit the spine and down went the deer.
High hit on a deer, never found the deer, nor the arrow. Have pictures of a deer with a strange looking scar where I thought I hit the deer??? Anyway I was useing a Steel force fixed blade broadhead on that shot. Why was the shot high? bad form, looking back don't think I got to the correct anchor point. Doesn't mean the steel force fixed blade failed, it means I failed.
so, to sum it up when deer are lost, and equipment is blamed, It more than likely is not the equipment's fault but rather the shooters fault.
If you take your time to tune your setup, you can use either or both. I find with good arrow placement they all will work. When the arrow placement is not good the results will vary with all of them.