New mechanical head from G5, available this summer-



http://www.g5outdoors.com/Products/P...px?productid=2

Yep, think I'm going to give them a whirl!

They've also got this one-



http://www.g5outdoors.com/Products/P...px?productid=6

Cool! A 5/8" fixed blade head with 1 3/16" mechanical bleeders.

Am I reading it right where it says it has a spring washer that keeps the blades from closing after they open? If that's correct, these boogers may run afoul of laws prohibiting barbed heads. Something to think about.

Art, how's that? When I think of "barbed" heads, I tend to think of fishing hooks, and somehow the broad head would have to be designed with a similar "barb" to prevent the animal from pulling or tossing it free?

Who knows, they let the crimson shame in most states...

If those blades locked open - that would be about as Barbed as one could get

Don't think they do. Think it says to prevent blades from closing "pre-maturely" when passing through game, implying they will close, like the Spitfires, which are legal, apparently...

That's the idea behind the law. They want the animal to be able to shed a non-passthru arrow to increase it's chances of surviving a non-fatal wound.

Actually, mechanicals, especially the ones with longish, aluminum ferrules, worry me in the context of that law. If you hit solid bone and bend the ferrule, those blades won't close. A bent ferrule turns a mechanical into a barbed head. Anyway, that's off topic.

Doesn't look like bending the ferrule would be as big an issue with these heads anyway. Being stainless steel and weighing 100-125 grains, they gotta be pretty dinky. There can't be that much ferrule on 'em.[:-]

Reminds me of the first time I saw their Montec in real life. I was struck by how small it appeared. Wasn't expecting that...

No, I had not seen it but it definitely is a head turner...now if they would just get rid of most of that initially exposed blade surface area....