you would think with the way that head is set up with the o-ring going around those wings, the head would hit and the o-ring would tear and be gone, not on the arrow shaft clean with no cuts on it...seems kinda odd to me too.

Something did some serious cutting. Last time I checked, plastic vanes do not come with sharp edges. Something caused a whole lot of bleeding inthe fraction of a second the arrow was within the coyote, as evident by the blood soaked vanes. I'm pretty sure a field point wound would not have given you the same blood level as we are seeing. I'm not an engineer though...

No opinion on the broadhead, but I have shot rabbits and woodchucks with judo points and field points and the arrows get plenty of blood on them w/out a broadhead.

Looks to me like the oring was on the wrong side of the blades at the get go. Least it happened on a criiter of little value. Other yotes will finish the job.

If the oring started in front of those little wings, there is no way possible the BH did not open. Can I accound for the lack of anything on the BH? Maybe it wiped off coming out. Maybe the shot barely caught the hide and not the vitals. Meaning the BH opened mostly as it was exiting the yote. And the fletching hung in a bit longer or he was bleeding more my the time the fletch got to the wound.

I would think the shot was less than a perfect shot. You didn't find him after all. High or low just barely going through the hide the arrow may have been exiting before it was able to fully open. Then it had slowed enoung for the fletch to hang up a second and it closed the blades back and bloodied the fltech.

Thats my guess anyway.

Get fixed BH's. I guarantee you won't have that problem...that's exactly why I don't use them. Even though it's rare, you got lucky it was only a yote and not a 160" bruiser.

Yeah, but definitely not someone from IL or OH[8D]

Dan

So you are saying if I shot a deer through the Heart/Lung area with an arrow tipped with a field point the vanes wouldn't be Blood soaked?

Just curious!

Dan

I was wondering the same thing.

I would be skeptical of this design in the first place.It isn't even designed to open until well after it is inside the animal.

Again I say,not all mechanicals are created equal.