Which broadhead should I use?
01-12-2013, 05:04 PM
#21
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: North Idaho
Posts: 1,071
Some states dont allow mechanical broadheads...I have had good luck with rage 2 blade...although if they are in a spine hit they have trouble deploying...I lost one deer with them the rest were complete pass throughs and not a doubt of the blood trail and they all went down within 50yds
01-13-2013, 02:43 PM
#22
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Sep 2010
Posts: 1,834
Grim Reapers, Razor Cut. I use the 100grn, 1-3/8ths cut. Blows clean through. NEVER fails to open. No rubber bands. Have taken over 100 animals with them from hogs, deer, bear and Catalina Ram. Never lost an animal till this past year and it was due to me shooting too high on a doe.
Missed near lung, got far lung and lodged in shoulder socket on far side. Found 2 days later in neighbors pond, dead.
Missed near lung, got far lung and lodged in shoulder socket on far side. Found 2 days later in neighbors pond, dead.
01-13-2013, 03:56 PM
#23
Fork Horn
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Southeast Nebraska
Posts: 452
Spell checker get you?
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Someone mentioned simplicity. Simplicity is in the eye of the beholder. It's true that a mechanical has to open on contact and a fixed doesn't, so the mechanical is more complex in that respect (and it's something that might go wrong). But mechanicals have less blade protruding during flight, reducing drag and shear and making them simpler to shoot. I shoot Rage 2's, and I like the fact that I can switch from a practice head to a hunting head without retuning my bow. It's simpler.
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Someone mentioned simplicity. Simplicity is in the eye of the beholder. It's true that a mechanical has to open on contact and a fixed doesn't, so the mechanical is more complex in that respect (and it's something that might go wrong). But mechanicals have less blade protruding during flight, reducing drag and shear and making them simpler to shoot. I shoot Rage 2's, and I like the fact that I can switch from a practice head to a hunting head without retuning my bow. It's simpler.
Haha yep. I tried to say replacing the O-RINGs.
I agree with the simplicity of not having to retune the bow.
01-15-2013, 09:16 AM
#25
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: North Idaho
Posts: 1,071
Spell checker get you?
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Someone mentioned simplicity. Simplicity is in the eye of the beholder. It's true that a mechanical has to open on contact and a fixed doesn't, so the mechanical is more complex in that respect (and it's something that might go wrong). But mechanicals have less blade protruding during flight, reducing drag and shear and making them simpler to shoot. I shoot Rage 2's, and I like the fact that I can switch from a practice head to a hunting head without retuning my bow. It's simpler.
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Someone mentioned simplicity. Simplicity is in the eye of the beholder. It's true that a mechanical has to open on contact and a fixed doesn't, so the mechanical is more complex in that respect (and it's something that might go wrong). But mechanicals have less blade protruding during flight, reducing drag and shear and making them simpler to shoot. I shoot Rage 2's, and I like the fact that I can switch from a practice head to a hunting head without retuning my bow. It's simpler.
01-15-2013, 11:23 AM
#26
Fork Horn
Join Date: Dec 2012
Location: Colorado
Posts: 276
In most cases I'd agree. but I had a good vitals shot from my treestand and I almost lost one deer because the broadhead didnt deploy..somehow the blades got stuck under the skin in between the ribs and skin. The only reason I found the doe was because I followed her to where I heard her crash through the woods...and the point had punctured a lung and she basically bleed out internally.
01-17-2013, 04:03 PM
#27
Fork Horn
Join Date: Nov 2011
Posts: 213
Broadheads
Fixed broadheads affects flight.
Fix: Adjustments.
Mechanical Broadheads shoot more like target tips - less effect from wind and planing.
However, there is that orange thing resulting in deployment issues.
Probably easier to fix point of impact adjustments but YMMV as will mine.
I'm migrating to mechanicals because I think deployment will be a lesser issue for me.
Fix: Adjustments.
Mechanical Broadheads shoot more like target tips - less effect from wind and planing.
However, there is that orange thing resulting in deployment issues.
Probably easier to fix point of impact adjustments but YMMV as will mine.
I'm migrating to mechanicals because I think deployment will be a lesser issue for me.
01-17-2013, 04:08 PM
#28
Typical Buck
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Northern Michigan
Posts: 974
