ORIGINAL: Big Slick
You have not set any reference for "expensive".
I think we all know what heads we consider "expensive" We all see the price tags every year.
I don't think I gave it a "glowing" report.
I did.
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.
The fact that you didn't mention you were a "friend" of the manufacturer is what caught my eye. Puts everything in whole different perspective.......right or wrong.
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.
A broadheads job is not to smash through a spine or elk shoulder bone.
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.
There is a BIG difference between saying your head performed well even on marginal shots that encountered bone..........and boasting that you can pass through a spine and/or elk shoulder specifically.
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".
Well when he quotes from experience and says
We actually passed completely thru a spine shot on a buck
in only seems logical that he is speaking from experience about the rest as well.
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.
It's not bad to consider you may encounter bone.........it IS bad to send people into the woods thinking even if they do encounter bone it's no big deal because they have the super macho big man heads on their arrows so they don't have to worry about aiming that much. Brainwashing morons with blazing speed and "bone crushing" heads is a recipe for disaster.
BTW, I saw some of the Hunting.net staff at the Las Vegas Shot Show.
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