Rangeball, please reread my post from the first page. Like I said, the last time I actually used mechanicals were five years ago, I am not oblivious to the fact that there has been improved changes to mechanical, and I would never argue that mechanicals are no good or could not kill. If I thought they were useless, I would never have used them at all, non-the-less two consectutuve season. However, I had what I would call failure in the heads in that in both cases when I shot deer, the head broke. At the time I was using rocket heads(I wish I could remember the model)that had a chisel point. At the time, they were considered one of the premier mechanical heads. Now I have been told by a few experts that my KE off the bow I was using was actually too high for these heads. And for the life of me, I would never even consider dropping the poundage down on my bow to use these heads, especially since they are mechanicals. That is why I made my statement. Would you argue that any mechanical out there will be as strong or stronger then my fixed cut on contact heads?
Would you consider any mechanicals strong enough to use on other game larger deer? I recently found out that the heads that I am using are actually legal in Africa on Animals up to and including Rhinos. I don't know of any mechanical out there can state that. Now, I know that we are not talking about Rhino's here, but I'm just trying to make a point. I would have to change nothing in my setup to hunt any North American Species of Game with my current setup.
Lets talk about penetration, and also lets remember that I have my roots in and still shoot traditional. Lets also say that I am shooting heads (both mechanical and fixed) at about 190 FPS with 45 lbs of KE. Not would you argure that any mechanical will out-penetrate my cut on contact heads? So why would it outpenetrate arrows shooting 280 FPS ant 80 lbs of KE? remember that I said all else being equal which means that when I'm camparing the two heads, they are being shot with the same FPS and KE.
I don't remember 5-shot ever saying that any mechanical ever out penetrated a magnus two bladed head. All else being equal. If he did, I'd like to read. Then I would stand humble corrected.
As far as some of the mechanical designs out today, yes, some of them do interest me such as the Snyper. Maybe, someday, I will try them out. But not on my traditional bows.
But remember that the question was if push came to shove. Right?
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WV, good point. I don't always like going there because people like to misread this kind of stuff by meaning that the cut-on-contact people use this as an excuse not to practice because they think they will go through anything. But, it is just the opposite. Things happen on live game, unforeseen things. Things like an unseen twig, or an aminal moving at the point of no return upon release. I have had both these instances. For instance, last year, I had a nice buck at 30 yards. He was just standing there eating and presented me with a nice broadside shot. Well, just before I released he turned toward me and down a small slope. Now instead of the nice broadside shot I had a quartering too me shot. Well to make a long story short the arrow busted through the blade, cliped both lungs, and passed though the deer. Now, would I have taken the shot with either head on a standing still shot - no of course not. But I didn't have the choice, and the head saved me.
Edited by - BobCo19-65 on 09/12/2002 11:20:40