broad head web site opinions needed
#1
Nontypical Buck
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Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Vinton VA
Posts: 2,978
broad head web site opinions needed
I just finished updating my new website. I have enluded pictures and will review one arrow rest per month. If you have the time please check it out and give my honest opinions, and any suggestions you may have. It's still a work in progress so any imput would be helpful.
www.broadheadtests.com
www.broadheadtests.com
#2
RE: broad head web site opinions needed
Hey Chris nice website. Very simple and clean and easy to navigate. Maybe you can show pics of each head after you put them through their paces, like after it goes through the steel drum. Just an Idea.
#3
RE: broad head web site opinions needed
Great site Chris. Very nicely put together. It looks very professional....except for that ugly mug you have pictured on the first page with that beautiful deer....
I wish you could all of the tests up there. You have done so much work.
I wish you could all of the tests up there. You have done so much work.
#4
RE: broad head web site opinions needed
Nice job 5 shot, looks good
Do you have enough space to include all your reviews? I also like PA Hardwoods idea of show before/after pics...might be something to consider. Either way, looks great, keep up the good work.
Do you have enough space to include all your reviews? I also like PA Hardwoods idea of show before/after pics...might be something to consider. Either way, looks great, keep up the good work.
#5
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Maine
Posts: 3,555
RE: broad head web site opinions needed
The site looks great. The info is good as well. I'd never thought to shoot my broadheads through a steel drum but that just says something about durability. Are you planning on expanding the number of broadheads tested? Just curious.
#6
RE: broad head web site opinions needed
Nice site , good info for us archers . Criss if I remember correctly you used to have many more broadhead reveiws on your old site , what happened to them all .
#7
Dominant Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Blossvale, New York
Posts: 21,199
RE: broad head web site opinions needed
I responded on the Eders site and thought maybe I should put it here too, just to jog some brains a little. (Copy/Paste)
I'm a little confused. Last year you ripped the Talon as falling apart. This year you gave it a 24. Then I look at the NAP Razorback and you have it with a 22. I start comparing notes and see that one blade is rated on 7 points and one on 6 points. You arbitrarily gave the Talon 4points for cutting diameter but the Razorback none. Do you think it should be an ALL or nothing in that catagory... or should it really be rated at all. I'm just looking for consistancy in a rating that is not an arbitrary figure plucked from the air at the time of the test and forgotten on another test. It would also be helpful if you had a side by side chart of all broadheads. Maybe you do, I didn't look under every tab. Maybe list all the grading points for each broadhead in the same order. By that I mean if you have accuracy first.. list it first for all, sharpness second... second for all etc etc etc. Would be easier to compare. What happened to all the old results,.. are you going to get them back up?
ALSO, you gave a 2 blade mechanical(Rocky Gator) a score of 5 for cutting diameter because it has a 2 inch diameter. On the other hand a 4 blade with a 1 1/8 you gave them NO points for diameter. Really? which cuts more meat? Seems an awfully judgemental thing to give one 5 and another Zero when they're so close. Then you take the Wasp with a 1 inch cut and give it 2 for cutting diameter. If I were a Razorback user I'd feel picked on.
I just don't think we're comparing apples to apples etc. I see too many variables thrown in that are personnal preference at the time of the tests. It appears as though scores were altered to fit your personnal dislikes and likes.
I'm a little confused. Last year you ripped the Talon as falling apart. This year you gave it a 24. Then I look at the NAP Razorback and you have it with a 22. I start comparing notes and see that one blade is rated on 7 points and one on 6 points. You arbitrarily gave the Talon 4points for cutting diameter but the Razorback none. Do you think it should be an ALL or nothing in that catagory... or should it really be rated at all. I'm just looking for consistancy in a rating that is not an arbitrary figure plucked from the air at the time of the test and forgotten on another test. It would also be helpful if you had a side by side chart of all broadheads. Maybe you do, I didn't look under every tab. Maybe list all the grading points for each broadhead in the same order. By that I mean if you have accuracy first.. list it first for all, sharpness second... second for all etc etc etc. Would be easier to compare. What happened to all the old results,.. are you going to get them back up?
ALSO, you gave a 2 blade mechanical(Rocky Gator) a score of 5 for cutting diameter because it has a 2 inch diameter. On the other hand a 4 blade with a 1 1/8 you gave them NO points for diameter. Really? which cuts more meat? Seems an awfully judgemental thing to give one 5 and another Zero when they're so close. Then you take the Wasp with a 1 inch cut and give it 2 for cutting diameter. If I were a Razorback user I'd feel picked on.
I just don't think we're comparing apples to apples etc. I see too many variables thrown in that are personnal preference at the time of the tests. It appears as though scores were altered to fit your personnal dislikes and likes.
#8
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Ridgeland MS USA
Posts: 850
RE: broad head web site opinions needed
5shot, great looking sight that will be EXTREMELY useful, as it always has been. The only suggestion I would make is to, if possible, "put a freeze pane" on the broadhead list, so that when you are reading the details of a particular broadhead, and you scroll down, the list of broadheads will remain in view, so you do not have to scroll back up to see make another selection.
I know this is very nit picky, but it is a pet peeve of mine and I'm not even sure that you can freeze pane on a website?
Very nice looking sight though. Thanks for the hard work!!!
I know this is very nit picky, but it is a pet peeve of mine and I'm not even sure that you can freeze pane on a website?
Very nice looking sight though. Thanks for the hard work!!!
#9
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: East Yapank NY USA
Posts: 3,457
RE: broad head web site opinions needed
Its a nice site Chris, and a great idea.
But to be honest, I think you need to have all your tests up there - It would be a great tool to have that database easily available.
But to be honest, I think you need to have all your tests up there - It would be a great tool to have that database easily available.
#10
RE: broad head web site opinions needed
Great job 5-shot, but I too agree as time permits, please include the rest of your tests. Maybe like the others have said...put pictures of the heads on too.
davidmil,
You are correct in that no tests are completely bias. Not even ones run by computer because humans put the information in and we are an emotional breed. Going way back to my college days, one psych professor stated that about 90 percent of our decision making ability is based on emotion, the other ten percent on facts.....Scary huh? []
davidmil,
You are correct in that no tests are completely bias. Not even ones run by computer because humans put the information in and we are an emotional breed. Going way back to my college days, one psych professor stated that about 90 percent of our decision making ability is based on emotion, the other ten percent on facts.....Scary huh? []