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I have also looked at the snuffers real hard. The tests I have read on them, well, they look pretty good. They make a 150 grain 1 5/16 cut that looks real nice, would help punch up that FOC also... How do you like the holes from those snuffers?

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How do you like the holes from those snuffers?

Excellent!! There by no means a Rage hole but my blood trails are awesome with them. I plan on taking pics this year if I remember to on a blood trail. I've been using this head for 15 years now. My penetration is very good as well and I shoot a recurve. 90% of the time I get pass throughs into the dirt. Thats saying something shooting them with a recurve.

The only bad thing I've heard with the Snuffers is that they can whistle in the air when shot. I've never heard it from my arrows but I've heard it from one other guys arrows and Matt/PA on here also said he's heard it on his as well. So it can happen I guess. Only way to know is to shoot one I guess. I wouldn't shoot them if mine whistled.

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would you rather be cut with a 2" knife blade that stuck you all the way through from your chest to your backbone (no exit hole)......or be stuck with a 1" knife blade all the way through?

Since the 1" went through the backbone, I guess I'd rather have the 2" cut that stopped at the backbone (spine). :eek:

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ORIGINAL: GMMAT

I think some of you guys are thinking about a whitetail's body being a large container of pooled blood. If that were the case.......sure....that second hole is "more" important.

Jeff last year the second buck I killed was hit high. I still got both lungs but I had a poor blood trail for the first 50 yards. The deer only went about 70 yards but it was in thick cover. It took a while, (about an hour),but I did find him. When I field dressed him there was a huge puddle of blood in his chest cavity. Because of the high hit, ( and this was a 35 yard shot, I was about 15' up), and fairly high exit, the blood pooled in the cavity created by the collapsing lungs. so it can happen. A lower exit hole for the blood to drain from would have helped considerably.

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What makes a good bloodtrail?
A double lung pass thru shot with a LOW exit wound!

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ORIGINAL: GMMAT

I think some of you guys are thinking about a whitetail's body being a large container of pooled blood. If that were the case.......sure....that second hole is "more" important.

We all (God I'm hoping)know that just isn't the case. The circulatory system is madeup of arteries, veins and capillaries that WILL bleed, if cut. So I go back to the question.....would you rather be cut with a 2" knife blade that stuck you all the way through from your chest to your backbone (no exit hole)......or be stuck with a 1" knife blade all the way through?

2X the cutting.....andyou're bleeding, either way. The trail "might" (might not) be easier to follow on the 1' pass thru......but science tells me it'll probably be a shorter track.....when 2X the trauma is inflicted.

The internet's cool this way, though. Nobody has ever lost a deer.....and we all bought magnums as teens.;)

I honestly wonder where you come up with some of these posts!![&:]

How many Deer have you opened up that only had a high entrance hole? You might be surprised what you find;)

Dan