RE: SPITFIRE BROADHEADS
 

Like I said in my earlier post, Spitfires have killed all the bears I have shot at.

Concerning my point about the broadhead losing it's cutting ability upon backing up 2 to 3 inches, of course if you take out both lungs the animal isn't going anywhere.

The reason we are switching is that let's just say you clip a twig or branch on the way to the animal, I know .. it SHOULDN'T happen, but it occasionaly DOES happen to some people. Now that arrow isn't a perfect double lunger, it's a single lung and gut shot. Again, this should never happen .. but it still does occur to somebody every year. Would you rather be tracking that bear that ran off with a broadhead wreaking havoc on the way out of the poor hit, or the one that had it's razor blades close and cause no further damage than what happened on the way in?

See, I agree that Spitfires and all good mechanicals kill animals just as well as fixed when passing through both lungs with a perfect hit. It's the less than perfect hits that I have seen them perform less well on. It is just my opinion, based on my personal observations of about 40 different deer and 10 or so bear that the one major drawback of the mechanical broadhead is that they ALL lose their cutting ability once they have stopped moving forward. Of course if you have never missed a shot, grazed a twig or branch you did not notice, had an animal react to a shot, been hit with a sudden wind gust, or had any kind of equipment failure .. than you will never have to worry about this.

RE: SPITFIRE BROADHEADS
 

MaJay...........to each his own !! Personally I think when Murphy hits............you better just pray things work out your way !!

And while your scenario of a fixed head continuing to cut making it more lethal is a good point........I think that possibly the larger cutting diameter of a Spitfire may do more damage on the way in............could be just as lethal or more !!

Who knows ???.............I don't............I only know there is no way we can actually prove it either way !!

RE: SPITFIRE BROADHEADS
 

Hi fellows i am new in here been hunting a long time just new to the site for anybody in the market for new broadheads check out the crimson talons i have been using them since they came out a few years ago and they are great better then muzzys thats what i use to shoot.
Exellent pass thrus and blood trails they fly just like practice points i was amazied the only down fall is that they are not cheap but what is these days.
Good luck to all