I went ahead and decided to sacrifice my snyper practise head. I wanted to see where it would break. I placed one of those lanscaping stone blocks, the kind that are used for retention walls, up against the basement wall about 3.5 feet off the ground. I'm shooting a Mathews FX around 67LBS 28 inch draw, 7595 goldtips, the bow is well tuned. The shot was from 15yards, I should be at around 60 ft/lbs or close to it at that distance.

The arrow hit and bounced back towards me.

The tip buried into the concrete block where it remained and the ferrule broke off right at the bottom of the U of the tip. It broke in a fashion that is very similar to what CG described. And the ferrule peeled back a bit, I'm sure that would have inhibited penetration.

That said, I have seen what this head does to a whitetail spine and to several whitetail ribs. For me this is still the best mechanical head for whitetails, with one caveat. Don't hit the shoulder. I would have to say that for game larger than a whitetail think fixed head, I like the rocky ti100 because of the strength of the solid ferrule.

FWIW