A properly tuned bow should shoot field points right with broadheads if not pretty close. I shoot mechanical broadheads with no problems but it will put fixed blades right with them too. No issues taking down deer with either kind.

Tom,
check out this link
http://www.bowhuntingmag.com/2010/10...adhead_flight/

I have a Bowtech Bow. Probably the middle range in price. I think next year i might get the Mathews Extreme. It seems easier to use in a blind to me.

As far as tuning????? I guess the place i bought it did that. Yes, i'm very inexperienced with them.

WOW....Thanks a lot, i need all the help i can get.

As others have stated, a properly tuned bow will shoot them both to the same POI. Most common reason for the difference is a high or low knock point. Especially with fixed blades as the air hits the blades and pushes them down or creates an airplane effect.

Never shot the mechanical always shot the fixed blade when i use to bowhunt, an i did have alittle issue when i shot the fixed blade.they didn't shoot quite as well as the field points so i always had to tune my arrows, i think what was happening was the broad head was driving the arrow to much and i had to heat the insert on the alum arrow an align 1 blade up perfectly with the odd vane an after that i was cutting vanes an messing up my arrowshafts.but that was shooting a compound bow.

A properly tuned bow will shoot some broad heads to the same POI as a field tip. I have found the are some broad heads that nothing or no amount of tuning will get to fly right much less to the same POI.

Guys, please pardon me for being a fuddy-duddy.

Lord knows I go off topic now and then myself. In fact, one thing I like about this forum is we can get free wheeling now and then and talk about the fish we caught or how good our tomato crop was. But none of that stuff is addressed in HNI's forum format. However, HNI does have an entire Archery Forums section and that's where this topic belongs.

OK, OK. Go ahead and take your shots. I'll survive.

I have to agree it all starts with a properly tuned bow. I shoot Slick Tricks and have for a few years now. They just spin test better for me than any other fixed blade. They are a 4 blade that flies just like a fp. The big move with fixed blades was the shorter ferrel, this shorter ferrel really helps stabilize the shaft during flight. The older fixed blades from years back were all longer and this caused more erratic flight.

IMO alot of the information comes form the older broadheads. Alot of the older broadheads had a tendency to "plane". That was why alot of guys always had to sight their bows in with a different POI with field points over broadheads.

The younger guys probaly don't remember this because most modern broadhead's "fly" considerably better than the older, and basically larger(and heavier) broadheads.

I remember the 3 bladed Wasp was the first broadhead I shot that hit the same spot as my field tip.

I am not saying the guys are wrong about the bow being properly tuned. Because they are 100% correct about that as well. I am only saying that broadhead's have been improved drastically over the last 30 or so years.

Some of the new broadheads are truly incredible(priced as well). Tom.