Ok, enough hear- say....
06-16-2008, 10:28 PM
#72
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Kansas
Posts: 3,288
RE: Ok, enough hear- say....
My son had one open in flight, and a friend had 2 out of the same pack not open. I was with him on one of them, the other he told me about but have no reason not to belive him.
06-16-2008, 11:09 PM
#74
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Sturgis, SD
Posts: 1,983
RE: Ok, enough hear- say....
Mez, what was entrance wound? Were there blade marks or no? I've heard of jack knife style heads swinging closed when stopped abruptly (like when hitting bone). I wonder if this may be what happened on that shot. If not, that is amazing that those blades could stay closed even passing into bone.
06-16-2008, 11:28 PM
#75
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Free state of Livingston! (La.)
Posts: 232
RE: Ok, enough hear- say....
Never Had one fail to open, I did have problems with Rockets being wimpy blades. I have never known someone who had one fail to open, but everyone knows somebody who had a friend whose cousins dident open or some kinda horror story
06-17-2008, 06:37 AM
#77
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Phoenixville, PA USA
Posts: 5,541
RE: Ok, enough hear- say....
ORIGINAL: mez
Mez, what was entrance wound? Were there blade marks or no? I've heard of jack knife style heads swinging closed when stopped abruptly (like when hitting bone). I wonder if this may be what happened on that shot. If not, that is amazing that those blades could stay closed even passing into bone.
Just a hole, the thing never opened. No blade tracks at all. I'm not sure how the thing couldn't have opened but it never did.
Mez, what was entrance wound? Were there blade marks or no? I've heard of jack knife style heads swinging closed when stopped abruptly (like when hitting bone). I wonder if this may be what happened on that shot. If not, that is amazing that those blades could stay closed even passing into bone.
Thanks for the info. Definitely food for thought.
06-17-2008, 10:43 AM
#78
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Southeast MO but live in MD
Posts: 133
RE: Ok, enough hear- say....
Last year was my first season using a mech broadhead, and I was very skeptical about them as well. But based on the recommendations of my friend and cousin (who have both used them for the past several seasons) I went with 100 gr Spitfires.Between the 3 of us, we killed 10 deer and 1 coyote with them with last year, and had zero failures.
06-17-2008, 01:17 PM
#79
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Oct 1998
Location: Hughesville, PA USA
Posts: 18,322
RE: Ok, enough hear- say....
I see by the PM's from mods and members alike I'm not the only sick of the GMMAT vs MeanV, MeanV vs GMMAT jabs. It's gotta stop as I'm getting too much press on it. I suggest to both of you to stay clear of one another.
06-17-2008, 01:38 PM
#80
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Michigan/Ohio
Posts: 11,682
RE: Ok, enough hear- say....
Well VA I have shot one deer with a Mech and it open and killed the deer.
When ever a deer is lost, it's the BH fault 98% of the time. If it is a Mech it's because it did not open, if it is a fixed blade, it's because the cutting diameter is to small. We are a strange group of souls
When ever a deer is lost, it's the BH fault 98% of the time. If it is a Mech it's because it did not open, if it is a fixed blade, it's because the cutting diameter is to small. We are a strange group of souls