Any reason to switch to mechanical broadheads?
09-25-2008 | 02:26 PM
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Nontypical Buck
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RE: Any reason to switch to mechanical broadheads?
ORIGINAL: ltpelham
wish i had pixs but on my black bear the rage left a 3' entrance hole
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?
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?
09-25-2008 | 02:28 PM
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Nontypical Buck
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RE: Any reason to switch to mechanical broadheads?
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?
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?
09-25-2008 | 02:32 PM
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RE: Any reason to switch to mechanical broadheads?
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.
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).
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.
09-25-2008 | 02:35 PM
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RE: Any reason to switch to mechanical broadheads?
If your arrow weighs 525gr or more....you're likely pushing enough KE to shoot mechanicals.
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.
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.
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.
09-25-2008 | 02:41 PM
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RE: Any reason to switch to mechanical broadheads?
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?
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?
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.
