ORIGINAL: atlasman
My guess is they will be VERY expensive. I also eagerly await an unbiased review of the heads by members here. A glowing review by a "Friend" I don't put much stock in. Not saying it is not true.......just have to consider the source.
You have not set any reference for "expensive". I don't think I gave it a "glowing" report. I only even mentioned it here because someone else brought it up in another thread and the question was posed as to it's effectiveness. I simply stated the facts, and the pictures do not lie. Like you however, I don't care for hit and run "wow check this out" posts. That's not what this was. The thing isn't even in production yet. I certianly am not trying to sell it.
BTW......I HATE when I see stuff like this
The razor wire is only flexible under extreme duress compression impact loads..such as thru a spine (We actually passed completely thru a spine shot on a buck), heavy shoulder bone of a large deer/elk/moose/hog shoulder plate
Even if your head IS capable of that (which I doubt).......don't brag about it so some dork shooting a low power setup thinks he can blow through a brick wall and doesn't have to aim anymore.
I think he was merely stating that the broadhead will do it's job. He did not say it will make you a more ethical hunter.
I can't understand why companies brag about that stuff........like it is a hunters goal or something??? They should just say that on some marginal hits the heads still performed well and took the animal down in a short distance and time.
Then someone would ask "what type of marginal hits?". You are responding to an email sent to an individual who had specific questions, not a form letter advertisement posted in some hunting mag.
What the hell were they doing shooting spines, and elk shoulders anyways?? If anything that says to me the heads are not very accurate........or they were aiming at the spine and/or shoulders. Either way=BAD.
If you read the reply in it's context, you will see that the author stated "The razor wire is only flexible under extreme duress compression impact loads..
such as thru a spine, heavy shoulder bone of a large deer/elk/moose/hog shoulder plate"
He did not say he shot an elk in the shoulder. He said the wire will flex under extreme duress, and gave situations in which the broadhead would encounter extreme duress. Perhaps he should have used "i.e. heavy shoulder bone of a large deer/elk/moose/hog shoulder plate".
Everyone I know has hit an animal in places they did not intend to hit the animal, some worse than others, but even the pros hit bone. Unless you are someone who has never hit bone with a broadhead, I really don't see why you think it's "bad" to consider you might encounter bone.
Really, quick humane kill, that's the goal. So far, that's what's happened. Still, you have every right to be skeptical. Hopefully I can show another pic next week of a bigger hog shot from a different angle (above, from tripod).
BTW, I saw some of the Hunting.net staff at the Las Vegas Shot Show.