Shot the Rage FINALY!
 

I got the Rage 2 Bladers yesterday and I tell ya what. Just a slight adjustment left and right and I was hitting the same hole over and over at 20 yards. I tell ya this is the best flying head I have ever shot in my bow hunting career. I started out with Thunderheads and they were good but never gave me a pass through, I then switched to Satelite heads and they just plain out sucked, I went back to TH and again same results as before, then I went to Muzzys and they were fantasic, pass through every time. Ran out of muzzys switched to Wasps, great heads! Again pass through everytime and never lost a deer, Now im using rage expandables on my new carbon epics, and i have never been so satisfied with a head. Now to see them in action on a nice buck or doe! I am PUMPED!!!

Just wait till the blades come open in flight... Then see if they are the best shooting heads you have ever shot in your bowhunting career.

I think you will love the rage! Awesome broadhead. I haven't been dissapointed yet.

Ohh youre the one that had the bad experience with them hu? No biggie. Out of the hundreds of good experiences I have heard people have had, versus the one or two bad ones Ive heard, I think Ill take my chances. My chances are pretty high that I wont see any problems, if something does, oh well. Its no different than a blade breaking off upon impact on a fixed head. And yes I have had that happen. Theres nothing in this world thats guarenteed 100%.

Hated Rage always opened up on flight.

I have never had the blades open in flight on me . They are the best heads I have ever bought .

The heads will not open in flight unless you are careless enough to shoot them with the blade improperly secured.

How would you know the blade opens in flight? I assume it planed off line?

Good point Bob, im thinking they werent shooting fast enough bows or they didnt pay attention the blades when they removed them from their quivers and they werent tight against the oring...thats my guess.

If the blades are not secured properly by the rubber o-ring, then the blade will make a distinctive twang as the arrow flexes leaving the bow. It can happen if you dislodge the blade by bumping it.

NAP Spitfire MAXX
 

I like these heads better than the rage due to no o-ring to worry about and they fly just as good as the rage and also have a
1-3/4 cut

Wes

Rage is by far the best expandable on the market today . I think it is the best broadhead ever .

LOL... got to love the haters.. its kind of like how everyone hates on Kyle Busch... EVERYONE hates a winner...

Not to be a Wise-arse here, but WHY on earth are you going to expect pass-through's with a RAGE when you weren't getting them with a TH???? That argument falls FLAT on it's face. :confused0024:

I bought some rage broadheads last year and the practice head was on the money. As I took them to the woods they opened in flight even with the o-ring secured but as they flew they were wild so back to Muzzy's for me. They also cost me my biggest buck ever.:bash:

:s2::s2: That's what I was thinking.

Oh trust me you will know. They look alot like this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKBFTK-xsMg

I think it's funny that you guys praise a unrealiable piece of crap Gimmick head but attempt to put down the tried and true fixed blades, that have have thousands of kills to their credit.

Bottom line you owe it to the animals you pursue, to use the best equipment. Not something that only works "part of the time" or when the conditions are right, like rage broadheads.

I didn't care for the rages. They kept opening when I moved my bow in the tree. Talk about extra movement trying to fix it when you got deer moving around. I shoot Aftershock now and love them.

i absolutely love rages. even if you hit the deer bad you will more than likely find it. it makes them bleed ALOT!

I thought rage flew awesome until I shot slick tricks.

Operator error?
Ihave been shooting them for a couple of years and have never had a problem after checking them to ensure they were held by the "O" ring.

Shot a buck this year with a Slick Trick what did I find in the deer? A rage 3 blade and and only 2 of the 3 partialy open, the 3rd was closed. Don't know how or really care, just stating what I observed. I'll stick with the Tricks. Oh and the rage was there only a day or 2 the most.

Okay, now wait, you're 14 or 15, you said you've tried all kind of BH's, and now you've finally shot Rages for the first time, and you know all of this??? :confused0024: I must've missed something. Now granted, you're young, and at least you're interested in this sport, but let's put a little more thought into this. If a Thunderhead didn't make it on a pass-through, what one earth makes you think the Rages are gonna??? Not gonna happen. If you hit a deer bad, then you should have taken a better shot, if you hit a shoulder, a ST or TH has a much better likelihood of you still getting that deer vs. a Rage, no doubt about it.

I have to agree here. My RazorTricks fly just as good out 50 yards as the Rage I tried. RazorTRicks in my quiver this year.

I agree with you 100%. I hate the rage good marketing. I had a blade slip out on an elk hunt in 2007 and it sounded like a fan flying through the air.

Rules of mechanics: the more moving parts you have the more problems you can have. :sign0004::sign0004:

What I find funny about all of this is that the proponents of the Rage say they don't open if you check them after you pull them out of your quiver and make sure the blades are seated properly on that little o-ring.
That's a whole lot of double checking you need to do to make sure they are going to work and a whole lot of instances where you could have a failure.

I never have to check my Slick Tricks to know that they are good to go. I never had to check my Muzzy's, my thunderheads, my innerlocks, my montecs, etc... etc...

This is why I shoot Slick Tricks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qc-srIw3na0

Before anyone says it.... I know we don't shoot rusty barrels but this video shows you exactly how tough different broadheads are.

so i was reading some of the stuff people say on here and its funny. Im only 22 but ive probably killed as many deer as alot of the people on here and ya know it doesnt matter what kind of broadheads you use. They all aren't perfect and if they didn't kill animals they wouldn't be on the market. The rages are good broadheads they are just like every other mechanical you can't be a lazy hunter and shoot them because they require more inspection. And i have shot alot of broadheads from G5 to muzzy to thunderhead and never liked mechanicals so i stay away from them. But ya know you guys bad mouth these rages and say they didn't work for you but in my opinion its not how well the broadhead shoots to whether it kills the animal or not. Its how well the shot is placed.

Those little dental rubber bands will probably do wonders for the "opened up in flight" crew...

Im shootin tricks out of my X6, and 2blade rages out of my Omen this season. Looking to kill whatever I shoot with either head:p

My 3 blades did a great job last year so im looking for the same with the 2 blades this year.

derek

Doug, Im pretty sure you did miss something...

This guy is wis RIFLE hunter not wis BOW hunter...

Maybe im missing something and they are the same person???

Or maybe you mistakenly thought wis rifle hunter was the op???

Not bein a :devil:

Just trying to clear up a bit of confusion.:cool2:

Derek

About time!

I like my 3 blade rages and will continue to shoot them. It's just personal preference. Shoot what you are comfortable with.

Yeah yeah have heard all the lame fixes to secure the blades so they don't open till you want them too. I don't wrap a bungee strap around my truck to keep the doors from opening going down the road. If I shoot something mechanically simple then there is no operator error to conflict with. Hunting isn't about mediocre' equipment. I would rather enjoy my hunt then have to worry about if my heads going to work or not.

Nope, :hit: :bash: :s6: :confused0024: Derek, you ARE CORRECT, I DID indeed miss this one. :action-smiley-099:I still stand by my statement early one though, if a Thunderhead ain't getting a pass-through, I'm not sure why ANYONE would want to believe a RAGE would.

i just bought a set of Rage 2 Blade and i also have heard tones of good feedback. some of my buddies shoot rages 2 blade and the entry holes ive seen and the performance..i had to try em!

Its all good man, you confused me for a bit lol!

I completely agree... If a TH aint gonna get thru, the 2 blade rage will be highly more likely to penetrate less...

Derek

You know thee 100gr. Eastmans they sell at walmart? Come in a 3pack for like $9.95 I think. Thats what i took this bull with and he went about 50 yds before he fell.. Now I mean in no way shape or form am I knocking Rage, but they are so high priced and too new to really know the pros and cons until after this year because of all the hype about them. I do want to shoot them because because of the uncensored footage I watched on Rage website, blood just flows from the entry wound! But I really believe that its the man behind the bow rather than whats in front of the arrow.. May try them, may not!

I have the Rage 3 blade and I harvested a buck and a doe last season. However I didnt get a pass through on either deer (I'm only shooting 53 lb draw though), but I cant complain because I recovered both deer and both had huge entrance holes. They flew great too, they flew just like my field points so I never had to change my pins.

If you ain't checking them each time then it's just a matter of time when something is going to go wrong with them.

I used fixed for 20 years and checked the BH everytime I nocked my arrow to make sure BH was tight to the arrow and all blades were tight on the ferrule.

You need to check your fixed too, and if you don't think so its plain ignorance.

Hear. Hear.

Elknutz.....you seem to REALLY not like these heads. What personal experiences do you have with them? And...aren't they illegal in CO?

I NEVER had one open in flight. I DID have pass-thru issues. I took 12+ whitetails with these heads over a 2 yr stint.