Choosing a broadhead for elk
 

I know this has been beat to death but I just can' t make up my mind. Here are the heads that I am considering using this year. Help me make up my mind. If you were expecting a worst case scenrio (elk shoulder) that you hope won' t happen which head would you go with. I am wanting the most penetration from this head and still be able to get in deep enough if I hit a shoulder. I am getting right at 70 ft lbs of KE from a 430 grain arrow. These would be 100 grain heads also. I know they all should get the job done but say this is your only elk hunt ever and did not want to chance anything what woud you use out of these choices? Assuming they all fly equally well too.


1) Rocky Mountain new iron head or tradition
2) G-5 montec
3) Muzzy or Innerloc (same thing almost)
4) Magnus stingers 2 or 4 blade
5) Sick tricks
6) Razor caps if they don' t cost too much.

Thanks guys.

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I don' t know much about the heads you are thinking about, but I used a thunderhead 100 grain for elk last fall and it worked great, and flew well, very sharp, hit an elk from 43 yards and it only went 25 yards after the hit.

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Personally I would use a thunderhead. But of what you have put down as choices
I would use a magnus stinger.

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The BH you mention are all good heads. The problem you' d have in a shoulder blade shot is there are no vitals behind it, it' s to high of a shot for a bow. So it wouldn' t matter what head was used, you' d probably be looking at a long trailing- tracking job. Now a hit between the top of front leg and under the shoulder blade is deadly. And all heads you mentioned would do well. A two blade cut on contact such as Magnus makes will penetrate the easiest, but with 70 kin. # you' ll have no problem with any head, provided you hit in the vitals.

If I would only have one chance at an elk hunt, I' d choose Muzzy, have also taken many elk with Thunderhead, but Muzzy seems to be the toughest blade We' ve used. elknut1

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If penetration is your biggest concern than obviously a quality two blade head will theoretically do the best job in that catagory all things being equal.

But once a guy lets any arrow go strange things can happen. I was shooting a rig that produced over 70 lbs. of KE last year when a nice buck walked under my stand. When the buck stood broadside at twenty yards the two blade head hit the shoulder area acheived good penetration but I didn' t get a complete pass through (the arrow penetrated both sides but stayed in the deer until the arrow broke). I figured I hit the shoulder bone on one side or the other...NOT! I hit one rib and the rest was muscle and tissue. Same setup except with a mechanical two blade (with a larger cutting area) shot completely through a bigger bodied buck entering the back of the rib cage and exited out the front of the deer' s chest as he was quartering away, go figure. Neither deer went 50 yards. I use these two examples to illustrate the intangibles that can happen in a hunting situation. Sometimes the obvious isn' t so obvious. :)

I don' t have any experience with the slick tricks or the razor caps so perhaps I should be eliminated from your survey. That said I have shot elk with 125 grain Muzzy 3 blade, a Rocky Mountain 125 grain titanium, and a 125 grain Montec G5. The Montec was the only one that got a complete passthrough. Truthfully that was more a matter of shot location than anything else however. For what it' s worth, the Montec was as good as new afterward.

I' m hoping to hunt elk this fall again. I will have the Montec G5 on the end of my arrows.

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100 gr Thunderheads are my choice . . . my second would be Muzzy 100 - all fixed three blade.

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Magnus Stinger 4-blade

If you want to add 1 more head to look at check out Phantom' s(by Muzzy). Same idea as Magnus Stinger.

http://www.cabelas.com/cabelas/en/te...ype=index&rid=

RE: Choosing a broadhead for elk
 

Personally, I use a 150 grain Magnus with bleeders and a 35 grain adapter for elk.

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Add to your list the SteelForce Titanium Hellfire Series. I think this is gonna be a real winner.

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i' ve shot T-heads, muzzy' s and montec' s. For me i looked at the tip and to me they all have an equally strong tip that will resist folding over and bust through bone equally well. all have three blades for good bloodtrails. all three have great tolerances for very straight and accurate broadheads. But one can be resharpened and reused, one has no parts to break or come loose and one is cut to the tip. Several times with different people i have taken all three heads, and also some snuffers, all mounted on the same arrows, and pulled different materials(denim, rugs, etc.)down over the broadheads to see which penetrated the material the easiest. no contest, not even close, montec' s and snuffers went through like it was air, but not so with the others. one guy made me jam the broadhead into the ground a dozen times, made me leave the dirt on, and then it was about equal in pressure needed for a brand new T-head. i killed one deer and one young elk with montec' s last year, both pass thru' s. on the elk at 25 yds it went through the thinner part of the far side shoulder blade, flew an extra 12 yds and stuck in a tree - still in perfect shape. neither went far, bloodtrails were great. i loved T-heads, never a problem. I love muzzy' s, never a problem, i love montec' s, never a problem. But i' m gonna stay with the montec' s, i just think they have more advantages - even though i' ll probably never notice the actual difference on game animals. This is just how i decided.

Eric