fixed or mechanical broadheads???
02-10-2006, 11:17 AM
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RE: fixed or mechanical broadheads???
50 ft pounds of KE is the number I received from Tech Services. However, I was told that is the number required at the impact range, not from your bow. Meaning you can have enough KE comming from your bow with properly tuned arrows, but at 30 or 40 yards, you will be below minimums. Something to remember.
02-11-2006, 06:57 PM
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Boone & Crockett
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RE: fixed or mechanical broadheads???
With the huge number of fixed blade heads made today that fly every bit as good as a mechanical there is absolutely no reason for a person to shoot a mechanical broadhead.
Here is a short list of broadheads that provide as good or better flight than mechanical broadheads.
Slick Tricks
NAP nitrons
Rocky Mountain turbo, tradition, iron head 100
G5's montec, striker
Magnus stingers
Razor caps
American Broadhead Companies sonic and liberty heads.
All of the Steel Force line of broadheads
Wasp Boss , Boss bullet, and sharp shooter
Here is a short list of broadheads that provide as good or better flight than mechanical broadheads.
Slick Tricks
NAP nitrons
Rocky Mountain turbo, tradition, iron head 100
G5's montec, striker
Magnus stingers
Razor caps
American Broadhead Companies sonic and liberty heads.
All of the Steel Force line of broadheads
Wasp Boss , Boss bullet, and sharp shooter
02-11-2006, 07:48 PM
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Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: PA
Posts: 1,689
RE: fixed or mechanical broadheads???
[quote]ORIGINAL: bigbulls
With the huge number of fixed blade heads made today that fly every bit as good as a mechanical there is absolutely no reason for a person to shoot a mechanical broadhead.
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Nothing wrong with mechanicals! I am 35 for 35 of big game animals with NAP Spitfires. It all comes down to shot placement. I worked around a butcher shop for years.I saw all shapes and size broadheads lodged in deerl.I guarantee it doesnt come down to the broadhead it comes down to the shot placement. Plus I like mechanicals for safety reasons. You are less likely to cut yourself on head that closes. JMHO
With the huge number of fixed blade heads made today that fly every bit as good as a mechanical there is absolutely no reason for a person to shoot a mechanical broadhead.
[quote]
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Nothing wrong with mechanicals! I am 35 for 35 of big game animals with NAP Spitfires. It all comes down to shot placement. I worked around a butcher shop for years.I saw all shapes and size broadheads lodged in deerl.I guarantee it doesnt come down to the broadhead it comes down to the shot placement. Plus I like mechanicals for safety reasons. You are less likely to cut yourself on head that closes. JMHO
02-11-2006, 08:34 PM
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RE: fixed or mechanical broadheads???
ORIGINAL: bigbulls
With the huge number of fixed blade heads made today that fly every bit as good as a mechanical there is absolutely no reason for a person to shoot a mechanical broadhead.
Here is a short list of broadheads that provide as good or better flight than mechanical broadheads.
Slick Tricks
NAP nitrons
Rocky Mountain turbo, tradition, iron head 100
G5's montec, striker
Magnus stingers
Razor caps
American Broadhead Companies sonic and liberty heads.
All of the Steel Force line of broadheads
Wasp Boss , Boss bullet, and sharp shooter
With the huge number of fixed blade heads made today that fly every bit as good as a mechanical there is absolutely no reason for a person to shoot a mechanical broadhead.
Here is a short list of broadheads that provide as good or better flight than mechanical broadheads.
Slick Tricks
NAP nitrons
Rocky Mountain turbo, tradition, iron head 100
G5's montec, striker
Magnus stingers
Razor caps
American Broadhead Companies sonic and liberty heads.
All of the Steel Force line of broadheads
Wasp Boss , Boss bullet, and sharp shooter
02-11-2006, 10:30 PM
#8
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Feb 2003
Posts: 10,679
RE: fixed or mechanical broadheads???
Bullmoose, I never said anything was actually wrong with mechanical heads. Simply stating that fixed blade heads are better for the purposes of big game and there are a whole bunch that fly at least as good as a mechanical head.
Another thing that caught my eye is the statement about you working around a butcher shop and seeing all kinds of broadheads lodged in deer. That's exactly my point. I don't want my broadhead lodged in a deer or any other animal. I want it to pass all the way through and into the dirt. A sharp fixed blade head gives a much better chance of this happening than a mechanical, especially on hits that impact the shoulder blade.
It amazes me, and I use to be one of them, how many people want their hunting bow accessories to be as simple and reliable as possible yet want their broadhead to be as complicated as possible and have a bunch of moving parts that are more prone to failure.
I mean the Whisker Bisquit is such a popular rest becasue of its simplicity and reliability, people refuse to use a drop away cause they have too many moving parts, people all the time choose a fixed single pin sight for the simplicity and rugedness. And yet these same exact people will screw in a mechancal broadhead. The single thing that actually does the killing is the most complicated accessory they have. [&:]
Another thing that caught my eye is the statement about you working around a butcher shop and seeing all kinds of broadheads lodged in deer. That's exactly my point. I don't want my broadhead lodged in a deer or any other animal. I want it to pass all the way through and into the dirt. A sharp fixed blade head gives a much better chance of this happening than a mechanical, especially on hits that impact the shoulder blade.
It amazes me, and I use to be one of them, how many people want their hunting bow accessories to be as simple and reliable as possible yet want their broadhead to be as complicated as possible and have a bunch of moving parts that are more prone to failure.
I mean the Whisker Bisquit is such a popular rest becasue of its simplicity and reliability, people refuse to use a drop away cause they have too many moving parts, people all the time choose a fixed single pin sight for the simplicity and rugedness. And yet these same exact people will screw in a mechancal broadhead. The single thing that actually does the killing is the most complicated accessory they have. [&:]
02-11-2006, 11:01 PM
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Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: PA
Posts: 1,689
RE: fixed or mechanical broadheads???
ORIGINAL: bigbulls
Bullmoose, I never said anything was actually wrong with mechanical heads. Simply stating that fixed blade heads are better for the purposes of big game and there are a whole bunch that fly at least as good as a mechanical head.
Another thing that caught my eye is the statement about you working around a butcher shop and seeing all kinds of broadheads lodged in deer. That's exactly my point. I don't want my broadhead lodged in a deer or any other animal. I want it to pass all the way through and into the dirt. A sharp fixed blade head gives a much better chance of this happening than a mechanical, especially on hits that impact the shoulder blade.
It amazes me, and I use to be one of them, how many people want their hunting bow accessories to be as simple and reliable as possible yet want their broadhead to be as complicated as possible and have a bunch of moving parts that are more prone to failure.
I mean the Whisker Bisquit is such a popular rest becasue of its simplicity and reliability, people refuse to use a drop away cause they have too many moving parts, people all the time choose a fixed single pin sight for the simplicity and rugedness. And yet these same exact people will screw in a mechancal broadhead. The single thing that actually does the killing is the most complicated accessory they have. [&:]
Bullmoose, I never said anything was actually wrong with mechanical heads. Simply stating that fixed blade heads are better for the purposes of big game and there are a whole bunch that fly at least as good as a mechanical head.
Another thing that caught my eye is the statement about you working around a butcher shop and seeing all kinds of broadheads lodged in deer. That's exactly my point. I don't want my broadhead lodged in a deer or any other animal. I want it to pass all the way through and into the dirt. A sharp fixed blade head gives a much better chance of this happening than a mechanical, especially on hits that impact the shoulder blade.
It amazes me, and I use to be one of them, how many people want their hunting bow accessories to be as simple and reliable as possible yet want their broadhead to be as complicated as possible and have a bunch of moving parts that are more prone to failure.
I mean the Whisker Bisquit is such a popular rest becasue of its simplicity and reliability, people refuse to use a drop away cause they have too many moving parts, people all the time choose a fixed single pin sight for the simplicity and rugedness. And yet these same exact people will screw in a mechancal broadhead. The single thing that actually does the killing is the most complicated accessory they have. [&:]