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I have shoot the rage 3 blade and I also use a dropzone fallaway rest. Dropzone never has fail, and the rage has performed flawless. Massive entrance and exit wounds bigger than the BH much bigger. Also if all 3 blades failed and I still placed the arrow well the broad head is still going to do its job the blades face outward from the start not toward the ferrule like most. There for it will cut nomatter what going in..........

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i did not read every page past 6 and it seems no one has answered why a 2inch cutting blade can cut something 6 inches??

i highly doubt this deer dropped dead in its tracks...so after the shot the 2 inch hole was torn open more as the deer ran.....simple as that.....if you don't think it is possible cut a small slit on the side of your finger...move it up and down for a while and see if the hole gets bigger....


2cents for rage: they are good heads that, for me, fly well out to 70 yards.....however,,,,being a spot staulk/still hunter i found that the blades would pop out of the o-ring walking around with an arrow nocked in the western states...then the o-ring would have to get rotated because it was all ripped up..... i do like the rubber band idea that someone posted....wish i would have thought of that...i will be putting those on this year...

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I know after hearing and seeing GMMATS stories and pictures and Robs endorsement of the Rock Mtn Snyper (very similiar) and all you other guys who I respect. I'm gonna be shooting with these in the summer. I too have been a fixed blade guy loving the Muzzy's especially the MX 3's and 4's with no failures. But I just can't look past the increase in cutting diameter.

I have rubber bands from a niece who wears braces so I'll probably try that too. I'm anxious to give'em a go in practice and hopefully take them to the woods this fall !

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I was in the same boat two seasons ago....I was shooting Montecs and had good success, dare I say....great success with them. I started to read all of the reviews and pics of the Rage heads and decided to give them a shot (pun intended) this last season.Well I was more than please with the results.

Will I still use the Montecs? Yep, but you can bet I will have a quiver full of Rages come opening day!

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I personally had a bad experience with the rage 2 bladeand since switched to a fixed blade, the nap crossfire and also going to try muzzy mx 3 blades. I've also seen "unbelievable damage" done by the rage as well.

A friend gut shot a deer last season and while tracking we caught her bedded down in some thick, over grown christmas trees. I placed the finishing shot, aHARD quartering away and the slice/devistation was unbelievable! I have NEVER seen anything like it (you had to see the butchers face when he saw the deer!)

On the other hand, I shot one where both blades broke off and the exit hole was the size of the arrow shaft. The deer only ran 60 yards but left no bloold trail. The shot was good and it didn't hit any major bone which would have broken the blades like they did. Was it a defect in that specific broadhead,not in the overall design, absolutely could have been. Butfrom that one bad experienceI NOW personallydo not have confidence in the strength of them. Its like that when you have one bad experience with any product.

Good luck with whatever broadhead you choose!

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huntingson, you may have missed this. Not real confident in the Dropzone either. It's worked flawless so far, but I am looking at others with less movable parts. I know we can not get rid of all the "what ifs", but I try to narrow them down a lot.

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Dang, might as well get a grenade launcher. [:-]

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Oh, wait, I have a better idea. I'll take a 6 inch butcher knife, attach it to a Easton ACC horizontally and chunk that at 'em. Let's see, 3" on each side, and no room for error, makes for a better archer. (No gut shots here):D

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I don't shoot rage or any other mechanical but I have had a bad experience with the beloved Slick Trick.. I was tuning my heads in a 3-D target. On back to back shots, I hit low in the shoulder/leg, where the aluminum tube runs up a 3-D deers leg. In both cases, the broadhead completely broke in two just above the insert.. So, in 2 shots, I had two complete failures... I gave the remaining head and blades away to a former members of this site, Silentassasin.

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I will say that the pics of the Rageare pretty impressive, and I see why people use them. I have not, and do not plan on it, simply because my Muzzy Heads have been crushing bones for over 12 yrs. I used Thunder Heads and Wasps when I first started Bowhunting 18 yrs ago. I have killed deer with all 3 of these heads. 2 times this year alone, I made two shots a little far forward, right in the middle of the shoulder blade with a 90 gr 4 blade muzzy on an arrow that was far too light 309 gr, another story there,anyway, both times it went clean through both blades and out the other side, needles to say, the deer only went 60-70 yds both times. It was pretty impressive, I just like fixed blade personally, I don't care what someone else shoots, for me it is Muzzy. I will say that two rumors have made me steer away from the Rage, lack of penetration and blade weaknes/ and or fail. To me, I can't bring myself to "try" them, I won't "try" them on an animal and see what happens, I know what will happen when my Muzzy hits, seen too many times ;)