Rage Never Opened UP!!
11-04-2010, 02:21 PM
#11
Spike
Join Date: Jul 2009
Posts: 40
I have been a 2 blade rage user since it came out. Works on every deer i harvested. never dissapointed me. gave great blood trial. a few pass through as well. no deer went pass 50 yards i can say that. but yeah, if it ain't working out, a change is always good. good luck.
Just Kidding
11-04-2010, 02:45 PM
#13
Fork Horn
Join Date: May 2006
Location:
Posts: 414
It's 1/4" difference in diameter and according to all the fixed guys when you compare your 1-1 1/4" diameter fixed to a 2" diameter head (a 3/4-1" difference) you all say "that little bit doesn't matter" and/or "well if you hit them where you're suppose to it doesn't matter".
Again, I'm not trying to disprove it happened I'm trying understand:
Why a small fixed head (1" diameter) can kill a deer quick but a 3/4" diameter can't? when the deer is hit almost perfect and you get a passthrough.
11-04-2010, 04:31 PM
#14
Spike
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: NE WI
Posts: 22
If it didn't open up, wouldn't the front of the blades that are supposed to catch and push back (the unsharpened parts) the blades create a "pathway" for the back of the sharpened blades to flow through the tissue, bone, vitals? It might be just my way of thinking but i think anything that the back unopened blades would potentially cut would be pushed out of the way by the front dull parts, and not allow good clean cuts to cause hemmorage.
11-04-2010, 04:57 PM
#15
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Illinois
Posts: 3,558
My cousin shot one last weekend that didn't open either. He tracked the doe over 300 yards on a double lung shot and when he got there she was still alive. It happens and that is why I have never shot a mechanical and never will. I don't see any reason at all to shoot a mechanical head. None whatsoever.
11-04-2010, 07:51 PM
#17
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Henderson, KY
Posts: 1,760
Man some of you guys are seriously miracle workers! I will be truly excited when I find an animal that a rage didn't open on...
Sorry for your experience. Fortunately u found the critters! Good thing u found them and know that they didn't open too so u know it wasn't just a bad shot etc.
Sorry for your experience. Fortunately u found the critters! Good thing u found them and know that they didn't open too so u know it wasn't just a bad shot etc.
11-04-2010, 07:56 PM
#18
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Feb 2003
Posts: 10,679
Not disproving but trying to understand how a 1" fixed can put a deer down dead extremly quick on a good shot but a 3/4" Rage that didn't open on a "almost perfect shot" can't put a deer down quick, the deer went over a quarter mile, let alone even kill the deer. The deer was still alive when they found the deer.
It's 1/4" difference in diameter and according to all the fixed guys when you compare your 1-1 1/4" diameter fixed to a 2" diameter head (a 3/4-1" difference) you all say "that little bit doesn't matter" and/or "well if you hit them where you're suppose to it doesn't matter".
Again, I'm not trying to disprove it happened I'm trying understand:
Why a small fixed head (1" diameter) can kill a deer quick but a 3/4" diameter can't? when the deer is hit almost perfect and you get a passthrough.
It's 1/4" difference in diameter and according to all the fixed guys when you compare your 1-1 1/4" diameter fixed to a 2" diameter head (a 3/4-1" difference) you all say "that little bit doesn't matter" and/or "well if you hit them where you're suppose to it doesn't matter".
Again, I'm not trying to disprove it happened I'm trying understand:
Why a small fixed head (1" diameter) can kill a deer quick but a 3/4" diameter can't? when the deer is hit almost perfect and you get a passthrough.
11-04-2010, 08:55 PM
#19
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Warsaw,MO
Posts: 2,046
Doesn't everyone ever remember what they teach ya in hunters safety? A safety is a mechanical device and may fail so keep your muzzel pointed in a safe direction all the time. Well mech bh is a mechanical device that may fail at any time so please leave them at home or don't buy then and get yourself a good fb bh. 
Everyone learns. Ive heard so many people over the years who use to shoot mech and say never again after something fails. I've almost never heard anyone say that about a fixed blade and if they do its a cheap walmart one and the blades fell off cuz it was made like junk.
Everyone learns. Ive heard so many people over the years who use to shoot mech and say never again after something fails. I've almost never heard anyone say that about a fixed blade and if they do its a cheap walmart one and the blades fell off cuz it was made like junk.
11-05-2010, 02:21 AM
#20
Fork Horn
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: moore oklahoma USA,right now in Korea
Posts: 335
love to see the film or pictures,in all my years of using mechanicals not one failure or lack of penatration.
even with my 2 inch cut vortexs the swing type heads or cheap allen heads not one failure thats shooting about 4-6 deer a year..
only problems i had with rages were the blades always would open with the slightest bump cant see them not opening,the 3 blades and the cost..used them once and they worked good for me..
even with my 2 inch cut vortexs the swing type heads or cheap allen heads not one failure thats shooting about 4-6 deer a year..
only problems i had with rages were the blades always would open with the slightest bump cant see them not opening,the 3 blades and the cost..used them once and they worked good for me..
