BH didn't open, pics added
12-30-2008 | 01:50 PM
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RE: Sunday evenings hunt- BH didn't open
ORIGINAL: OHbowhntr
I'm not so sure that the blades didn't open, and make get cleaned by Saskwatch just so he could mess with you for a change!!!! Seriously though, unless several of us have TOTALLY missed something, I don't see how the o-ring could get where it is and the blades not have opened. No offense, but that's just how I'm seeing it.
I'm not so sure that the blades didn't open, and make get cleaned by Saskwatch just so he could mess with you for a change!!!! Seriously though, unless several of us have TOTALLY missed something, I don't see how the o-ring could get where it is and the blades not have opened. No offense, but that's just how I'm seeing it.
12-30-2008 | 01:53 PM
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RE: Sunday evenings hunt- BH didn't open
ORIGINAL: wallhangr
I noticed a similar issue with some mechanicals I had. While practicing with them on an inch and 1/2 thick foam target they were not opening but nearly passing completely thru. On deer however I got pass-thrus with the blades opening. I'm guessing you hit the yote where there wasn't much resistance and they didn't open.
I noticed a similar issue with some mechanicals I had. While practicing with them on an inch and 1/2 thick foam target they were not opening but nearly passing completely thru. On deer however I got pass-thrus with the blades opening. I'm guessing you hit the yote where there wasn't much resistance and they didn't open.
Oh, by the way, every deer I've ever shot(CB) using Spitfires (blades ALWAYS opened) the blades were closed when I retrieved the bolt. Strange isn't it?
12-30-2008 | 02:11 PM
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RE: Sunday evenings hunt- BH didn't open
The only thing I can think of on the blades being clean is that passing through the outer layer of fat and heavy fur cleaned them off. Now that you have posted that pic with the O ring behind the wings there is absolutely no way that broadhead failed. David Blaine couldn't even pull that off.
Look at it this way, you ridded your area of one yote. Because that thing sliced a 2 3/4" hole in him GAR-ON-TEED.
Look at it this way, you ridded your area of one yote. Because that thing sliced a 2 3/4" hole in him GAR-ON-TEED.
12-30-2008 | 02:25 PM
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RE: Sunday evenings hunt- BH didn't open
Now I must say I am a mech shooter I shoot the grim reapers and swear by them as the best head out there but this isn't what this thread is for. If I had to make a guess maybe the shot placement wasn't as good as you thought it was and that yote not shot through the boiler room could go a ways. Depending on where the hit was could be why there wasn't alot of blood. Walt
12-30-2008 | 02:46 PM
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RE: Sunday evenings hunt- BH didn't open
ORIGINAL: bawanajim
I just don't understand why it takes so many failures for people to learn, sure they work most of the time,but a fixed blade works every time.
People spend thousands of $ on the fastest bows,hundreds on the best arrows and god knows how much of sights ,releases and assorted gadgets.
Yet some still take a chance with broad heads.
I just don't understand why it takes so many failures for people to learn, sure they work most of the time,but a fixed blade works every time.
People spend thousands of $ on the fastest bows,hundreds on the best arrows and god knows how much of sights ,releases and assorted gadgets.
Yet some still take a chance with broad heads.
No,fixed heads do not work everytime.The blades break and bend on them as well,imo,that is a failure.
I had a fixed head cost me a deer once.[&:] Or maybe it was the shot placement.
or maybe my poor tracking job at the time.[
]I will most likely be shooting fixed heads again next year,mostly because of price and noise issues with mechanicals.
I am also having a hard time understanding how the o ring could jump the ears without the blades opening.
12-30-2008 | 03:19 PM
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RE: Sunday evenings hunt- BH didn't open
Curiosity question on these broadheads. It may sound a bit stupid, but I've never used them or even seen them up close. I know that with Grim Reapers, when I was shooting lower quality foam targets, the broadhead would be on the other side of the target and it was closed. The inertia from the sudden stop slams the blades closed. Any chance of this happening with this broadhead? Could it be possible that it passed through something tough and the blades slammed back forward or do they lock in the deployed position?
12-30-2008 | 03:25 PM
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RE: Sunday evenings hunt- BH didn't open
ORIGINAL: LittleChief
Curiosity question on these broadheads. It may sound a bit stupid, but I've never used them or even seen them up close. I know that with Grim Reapers, when I was shooting lower quality foam targets, the broadhead would be on the other side of the target and it was closed. The inertia from the sudden stop slams the blades closed. Any chance of this happening with this broadhead? Could it be possible that it passed through something tough and the blades slammed back forward or do they lock in the deployed position?
Curiosity question on these broadheads. It may sound a bit stupid, but I've never used them or even seen them up close. I know that with Grim Reapers, when I was shooting lower quality foam targets, the broadhead would be on the other side of the target and it was closed. The inertia from the sudden stop slams the blades closed. Any chance of this happening with this broadhead? Could it be possible that it passed through something tough and the blades slammed back forward or do they lock in the deployed position?
12-30-2008 | 03:26 PM
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RE: Sunday evenings hunt- BH didn't open
I'm wondering why the blades were spotless. No hair, no blood, no meat, no dirt.....nothing. Not to mention the fact that there was very little blood other than on the vanes. I would post a pic of the blades, but at this point I'd probably be accused of washing the blades off .[&:]
12-30-2008 | 03:26 PM
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RE: Sunday evenings hunt- BH didn't open
ORIGINAL: HuntingBry
The only thing I can think of on the blades being clean is that passing through the outer layer of fat and heavy fur cleaned them off. Now that you have posted that pic with the O ring behind the wings there is absolutely no way that broadhead failed. David Blaine couldn't even pull that off.
Look at it this way, you ridded your area of one yote. Because that thing sliced a 2 3/4" hole in him GAR-ON-TEED.
The only thing I can think of on the blades being clean is that passing through the outer layer of fat and heavy fur cleaned them off. Now that you have posted that pic with the O ring behind the wings there is absolutely no way that broadhead failed. David Blaine couldn't even pull that off.
Look at it this way, you ridded your area of one yote. Because that thing sliced a 2 3/4" hole in him GAR-ON-TEED.
12-30-2008 | 03:27 PM
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RE: Sunday evenings hunt- BH didn't open
ORIGINAL: early in
This was what I tried to covey on my last post.
ORIGINAL: LittleChief
Curiosity question on these broadheads. It may sound a bit stupid, but I've never used them or even seen them up close. I know that with Grim Reapers, when I was shooting lower quality foam targets, the broadhead would be on the other side of the target and it was closed. The inertia from the sudden stop slams the blades closed. Any chance of this happening with this broadhead? Could it be possible that it passed through something tough and the blades slammed back forward or do they lock in the deployed position?
Curiosity question on these broadheads. It may sound a bit stupid, but I've never used them or even seen them up close. I know that with Grim Reapers, when I was shooting lower quality foam targets, the broadhead would be on the other side of the target and it was closed. The inertia from the sudden stop slams the blades closed. Any chance of this happening with this broadhead? Could it be possible that it passed through something tough and the blades slammed back forward or do they lock in the deployed position?