Spitfire broadheads
#11
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Flowery Branch Ga. 30542
Posts: 823
RE: Spitfire broadheads
He hit the leg bone and broke it into pieces the put a perfect star in the heart still this arrow had enough energy to fall out the opposite side as the deer ran away.
If he was shooting Spitfires I don't think he wouldn't gotten any penetration.
with a smaller head your chances of a pass through get better.
I once used a set up with 56 ft lbs of Kinentic energy. With a 1 1/4 inch cut I passed through the heart at 15 yards however, when I shot the deer at 27 yards through the heart I did not get a pass through.
All these things should be taken into consideration when you choose how large of broadhead to use.
I limit my size to 1 1/4 inch cut cause that's all the bigger I need, that's all the bigger anyone needs for that matter..
anything larger you willtend to open up the pentration issue,can of worms.
#12
RE: Spitfire broadheads
I used spitfire broadheads for the first time last year, releasing 4 arrows, harvesting 4 deer. Every shot was around 18 yards, 2 were pass-throughs, 1 was a quartering away shot, the other was a quartering towards me shot. [The quartering towards me shot isn't a shot I'd recommend, it was on a deer which was wounded during gun season, could hardly walk, I was out hunting for it to end it's suffering] I'm going to continue to use them, they get enough penetration to kill anything. You don't need pass-throughs to harvest deer, I think people get to obsessed with pass-throughs. Get a broadhead you personally have confidence in, if you ask others there are just too many opinions out there. Make a decision and see how they work for you and your set-up.
Paul
Paul
#13
RE: Spitfire broadheads
I shot my first "spitfire" deer yesterday, and I'm sold. I mean, if you could have seen the size of the exit hole this broadhead leaves.Complete pass through at 20yds on a quartering away doe. Then again, it was a 2.5 year old 100lb South Carolina deer. She'll taste the same none the less.