Rage 40KE
05-19-2009, 07:02 PM
#3
Typical Buck
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Location: Cincinnati, Ohio
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RE: Rage 40KE
I have taken 4 deer with the rage 2 blades. All have been very quick kills but the last three did not produce an exit wound which scared me enough to try a different head this year. Luckily my shot placements were on point or i would not have had much of a blood trail to follow. With such a wide cutting diameter they require more energy to penetrate deeply, but they do provide a ton of carnage.
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05-19-2009, 08:45 PM
#4
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Free state of Livingston! (La.)
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RE: Rage 40KE
I got my wife a pack to use last week on a hog hunt with her 45# bow, at 22 yards she got a good broadside shot and the arrow did penetrate through both sides however the fletched end of the arrow stayed roughly 4-6 inches in. Left good trail, and we did recover the hog ater about 50 yards or so. I liked em.
05-23-2009, 04:15 AM
#5
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Jacksonville Fl USA
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RE: Rage 40KE
I have to post here...
I usually do not 'rant' about much but.. If you have a low 'KE' setup you are MUCH MUCH better off with a 100 grain Grizzly head, or a head from ABOWYER - both 2 blade heads. If you look at the rage VS these there are MANY differances but I can assure in no way does the rage compare. The fly GREAT and are 10X stronger and will out penetrate a rage 5 to one... Dont believe me ... read some of the articles on 'tradgang' web forum under the topic "Dr. Ed Ashby Reports" There is a LOT of info there and you will be a while but will learn more about what REALLY makes a broadhead kill than anything you will read this year....
Take a look, you deserve it but more so the deer do... it should be required reading for a deerhunter with a bow....
Good luck friend....
I usually do not 'rant' about much but.. If you have a low 'KE' setup you are MUCH MUCH better off with a 100 grain Grizzly head, or a head from ABOWYER - both 2 blade heads. If you look at the rage VS these there are MANY differances but I can assure in no way does the rage compare. The fly GREAT and are 10X stronger and will out penetrate a rage 5 to one... Dont believe me ... read some of the articles on 'tradgang' web forum under the topic "Dr. Ed Ashby Reports" There is a LOT of info there and you will be a while but will learn more about what REALLY makes a broadhead kill than anything you will read this year....
Take a look, you deserve it but more so the deer do... it should be required reading for a deerhunter with a bow....
Good luck friend....
05-23-2009, 11:44 PM
#6
Typical Buck
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Fraziers Bottom, WV
Posts: 500
RE: Rage 40KE
I'm no engineer, don't even play one on TV. This is merely my thoughts and not meant to bash anyone's selections of broadheads. I don't like mechanicals, even in high poundage, high KE, fast bows. The require energy to deploy the blades. Energy that I would rather ust to push the arrow through the deer.
Me personally, I'd use a head like a stiker or slicktrick for a lower KE bow. Or even a two blade like magnus stingers.
that's just me and my irrational thoughts though. I have many of them
Me personally, I'd use a head like a stiker or slicktrick for a lower KE bow. Or even a two blade like magnus stingers.
that's just me and my irrational thoughts though. I have many of them
05-24-2009, 03:37 AM
#7
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Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Titusville Florida
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RE: Rage 40KE
ORIGINAL: cartman308
I'm no engineer, don't even play one on TV. This is merely my thoughts and not meant to bash anyone's selections of broadheads. I don't like mechanicals, even in high poundage, high KE, fast bows. The require energy to deploy the blades. Energy that I would rather ust to push the arrow through the deer.
Me personally, I'd use a head like a stiker or slicktrick for a lower KE bow. Or even a two blade like magnus stingers.
that's just me and my irrational thoughts though. I have many of them
I'm no engineer, don't even play one on TV. This is merely my thoughts and not meant to bash anyone's selections of broadheads. I don't like mechanicals, even in high poundage, high KE, fast bows. The require energy to deploy the blades. Energy that I would rather ust to push the arrow through the deer.
Me personally, I'd use a head like a stiker or slicktrick for a lower KE bow. Or even a two blade like magnus stingers.
that's just me and my irrational thoughts though. I have many of them
05-25-2009, 10:06 PM
#8
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Henderson, KY
Posts: 1,760
RE: Rage 40KE
ORIGINAL: Centaur 1
X2, if your shying away from the original because of low ke why take a chance on these? The smaller head size now brings them in line with all of the fixed blade heads, so the advantage of having the larger cutting diameter is negated.
ORIGINAL: cartman308
I'm no engineer, don't even play one on TV. This is merely my thoughts and not meant to bash anyone's selections of broadheads. I don't like mechanicals, even in high poundage, high KE, fast bows. The require energy to deploy the blades. Energy that I would rather ust to push the arrow through the deer.
Me personally, I'd use a head like a stiker or slicktrick for a lower KE bow. Or even a two blade like magnus stingers.
that's just me and my irrational thoughts though. I have many of them
I'm no engineer, don't even play one on TV. This is merely my thoughts and not meant to bash anyone's selections of broadheads. I don't like mechanicals, even in high poundage, high KE, fast bows. The require energy to deploy the blades. Energy that I would rather ust to push the arrow through the deer.
Me personally, I'd use a head like a stiker or slicktrick for a lower KE bow. Or even a two blade like magnus stingers.
that's just me and my irrational thoughts though. I have many of them
Derek
05-25-2009, 10:11 PM
#9
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Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Henderson, KY
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RE: Rage 40KE
ORIGINAL: cartman308
I'm no engineer, don't even play one on TV. This is merely my thoughts and not meant to bash anyone's selections of broadheads. I don't like mechanicals, even in high poundage, high KE, fast bows. The require energy to deploy the blades. Energy that I would rather ust to push the arrow through the deer.
Me personally, I'd use a head like a stiker or slicktrick for a lower KE bow. Or even a two blade like magnus stingers.
that's just me and my irrational thoughts though. I have many of them
I'm no engineer, don't even play one on TV. This is merely my thoughts and not meant to bash anyone's selections of broadheads. I don't like mechanicals, even in high poundage, high KE, fast bows. The require energy to deploy the blades. Energy that I would rather ust to push the arrow through the deer.
Me personally, I'd use a head like a stiker or slicktrick for a lower KE bow. Or even a two blade like magnus stingers.
that's just me and my irrational thoughts though. I have many of them
but i have to disagree about the whole ke thing. The bows that do have a high amount of momentume and ke say... 80#'s with a 400gr. arrow. That is litterally about twice as much energy that is needed to kill a white tail. I DONT disagree tho, that usiing a 2" rage 2 blade out of a bow only producing around55#'s of KE is a good thing either. We see too often on here that people just dont get the pass thrus with them. Which is why i always recommend the 3 bladeDifferent strokes for different folks!
Derek
05-26-2009, 01:04 AM
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RE: Rage 40KE
ORIGINAL: drockw
I do respect that you state your opinion elegantly unlike some on the forumsbut i have to disagree about the whole ke thing. The bows that do have a high amount of momentume and ke say... 80#'s with a 400gr. arrow. That is litterally about twice as much energy that is needed to kill a white tail. I DONT disagree tho, that usiing a 2" rage 2 blade out of a bow only producing around55#'s of KE is a good thing either. We see too often on here that people just dont get the pass thrus with them. Which is why i always recommend the 3 blade
Different strokes for different folks!
Derek
ORIGINAL: cartman308
I'm no engineer, don't even play one on TV. This is merely my thoughts and not meant to bash anyone's selections of broadheads. I don't like mechanicals, even in high poundage, high KE, fast bows. The require energy to deploy the blades. Energy that I would rather ust to push the arrow through the deer.
Me personally, I'd use a head like a stiker or slicktrick for a lower KE bow. Or even a two blade like magnus stingers.
that's just me and my irrational thoughts though. I have many of them
I'm no engineer, don't even play one on TV. This is merely my thoughts and not meant to bash anyone's selections of broadheads. I don't like mechanicals, even in high poundage, high KE, fast bows. The require energy to deploy the blades. Energy that I would rather ust to push the arrow through the deer.
Me personally, I'd use a head like a stiker or slicktrick for a lower KE bow. Or even a two blade like magnus stingers.
that's just me and my irrational thoughts though. I have many of them
but i have to disagree about the whole ke thing. The bows that do have a high amount of momentume and ke say... 80#'s with a 400gr. arrow. That is litterally about twice as much energy that is needed to kill a white tail. I DONT disagree tho, that usiing a 2" rage 2 blade out of a bow only producing around55#'s of KE is a good thing either. We see too often on here that people just dont get the pass thrus with them. Which is why i always recommend the 3 bladeDifferent strokes for different folks!
Derek
Another reason I shy away from mechanicals is my luck. I have to eliminate as many things that could fail as i can. Murphy is not very kind to me.....