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RE: Any reason to switch to mechanical broadheads?

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ORIGINAL: ltpelham

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ORIGINAL: GMMAT

I think you mean huge ENTRANCE holes......or at least that's what you'd get with the rear deploying models currently being employed.

So what's your arrow weight and speed?

wish i had pixs but on my black bear the rage left a 3' entrance hole

THREE FOOT ENTRANCE HOLE?????? HOLY CRAP BATMAN!!!! I'll have to switch to what you're using. :D

RE: Any reason to switch to mechanical broadheads?

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ORIGINAL: GMMAT

I think you mean huge ENTRANCE holes......or at least that's what you'd get with the rear deploying models currently being employed.

So what's your arrow weight and speed?

No, I meant exit holes. More blood gets on the ground from the lower hole on the opposite side of the deer than the higher hole on shot side. I see your logic with the rear deploying blades though, which can be a good thing.

RE: Any reason to switch to mechanical broadheads?

lmfao lol right hahaha i cant stop laughin

RE: Any reason to switch to mechanical broadheads?

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ORIGINAL: silentassassin

badshotbob,

My logic was that IMO you can't blame a broadhead for not making a good shot on a deer. If you had hit the deer where you were suppose to then this conversation would be moot because you would have found your deer piled up shortly there after. Not knocking a bad shot because we all make them, I am just saying that this 1 instance is not a valid test for any broadhead.

You are absolutely correct. It was a horrible shot (that's why I haven't hunted with the recurve since then - I am consistent on the range but fall apart over a deer, so I went back to my compound and pins).

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My other point is that "the mechanical failed to open" is essentially a fallacy that I have yet to see proven. I am not saying that it's never happened, I am just saying that the IMO that the instances of it happening are so rare that I doubt anyone else here has either.

Well, it happened to me. Could have been the shot angle? Although I was only 15 feet up and the deer was about 20 yards out quartered away slightly. Or could it have been the recurve? Not sure.

RE: Any reason to switch to mechanical broadheads?

If your arrow weighs 525gr or more....you're likely pushing enough KE to shoot mechanicals.

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Sure, the shot was bad, but the reason I found the arrow is it only penetrated less than an inch, then fell out when the deer ran by a fence post.

I think I could put a rubber suction cup on the end of my arrows (with the speeds they're traveling) and get more penetration.

Something isn't jiving, here....and I don't think it has a darned thing to do with the BH choice. You say you found the arrow. Was it deployed at all? Why didn't it? Was it stuck?

TOO many people using today's Mech. heads with NO issues for me to abandon them for(or lend much credence to) these horror stories of old.

RE: Any reason to switch to mechanical broadheads?

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ORIGINAL: GMMAT

Something isn't jiving, here....and I don't think it has a darned thing to do with the BH choice. You say you found the arrow. Was it deployed at all? Why didn't it? Was it stuck?

I was baffled when I found the arrow and more baffled when I found the carcass the next week. The broadhead had two blades, the o-ring was still on the blades.

Now that I think about it, it's possible that i was not at full draw at the time of the shot not providing enough energy to open the blades. Although that seems unlikely since I wouldn't have gotten back to my anchor point. I don't know. Too long ago to dig up the details from the archives.

RE: Any reason to switch to mechanical broadheads?

thats the probblem back than the o-ring were junk now were barly have o-ring