Broadheads?
 

New to bow hunting, and I need broadheads. Many different opinions on broadheads. Whats a good broadhead for whitetail?

What is your rig? Arrows, Bow (compound or Traditional), weight of the practice points you are currently using for practice?

Ive killed them with Magnus, Muzzy, Thunderhead, Stingers, Snuffers, and Slick Tricks. My personal choice right now is Slick Tricks. They do an excellent job and are a strong quality fixed blade head. They fly extremely well out of a properly tuned bow.

You can probably kill a deer with about any broadhead as long as its sharp and your shot placement is good. That said, I like to up my odds by using a quality fixed head vs. a mechanical. Too many things can potentially go wrong when bowhunting, I don't want my broadhead to be one of them, especially if my shot is not exactly where I want it. That is when you get in trouble with mechanicals.

People will argue to death over what broadhead to use. It comes down to personal preference really. Fixed heads can fly just as well out of a well tuned bow as field points. Anyone saying they can't has never shot a well tuned bow.

My suggestion is get a good quality head (fixed or mech), and much more importantly make sure your bow is tuned properly. A mechanical head used as a band-aid for a poorly tuned bow will stack the odds against you.

Pretty good advice IMO. I am not a fan of mechanical broadheads.

Your going to get thousands of different answers. I use the 100 grain 4 blade wac em. They are fixed. I like them so far. I made a pretty bad shot on the deer I got earlier in the year. I hit near the rib and went out near the ham. I'm not sure what I hit but he only went 50 yards. Customer service is fantastic. The pack I got didn't have enough blades, I got an immediate email back and they sent an entire replacement blade pack. Give them a try.

"Many different opinions" is an understatement HJere's one more .... keep it simple ... test to see if the broadhead flies well .... 125 gr. .... a reputable 3 - blade is a great place to start ... mechanicals are not necessary. Consistent straight flight and excellent penetration are the keys. Specific recommendations ..... NAP Thunderhead, Muzzy 3 blade, Montec G-5 3-blade. I have used all three and these have been excellent.

I know a lot of the traditional guys don't want to try them, but my wife, my neighbor, and I had great success with FAA's toxic broadheads, on both bow and crossbow. Accuracy's been great, 3 of the 4 deer fell in less than 80 yards with lung shots this year, and left great trails. Based on our experience, we're sticking with them.

Not knowing your setup makes it hard to really give ya much help. If your shooting low poundage I'd go with a good cut on contact type head and avoid mechanicals. If your drawing back say 60lb plus you can start expanding your options and mechanicals. I have taken deer with both and at the moment are using Xecutioners the fly great I just don't like the orings. I have used rage in the past and they fly great also and if they have the cup blade retention system it is much better that the old orings. The only problem I've had is once I shoot a deer with them the body of the head is ruined, when the blade slap back its denting the where the blades sit and then the retention cup will not properly fit. There might not be a problem with the titainium version but I have not tried them.

With fixed you have many options (slick trick, muzzy, Thunderheads) just to name a few. And like what was previously said ALL will kill a deer, less things to go wrong with the fixed heads but your bow needs to be properly tuned as do your arrows and the mechanicals fly better out of the really fast bows on the market. (less planing)

Some people give me crap for using Rage Hypodermics, but it has dropped two deer this year within about 30 yds of where they were shot. One was a buck that was almost 300 lbs and a good sized doe. Just like finding the right bullet.....it is all about shot placement. You tear up the lungs or cut the heart, it doesn't matter what you are shooting. Any mechanical broadheads have the chance of malfunction, but I have yet to have one fail.

Go on youtube and watch some videos on rage blood trail. There is one that says graphic where he shoots a doe in a field. That is what sold me on the rage broadheads. The blood trails are very easy to follow if you hit your mark.

And they fly like field points. Sounds cliche, but they really do fly well out of my Nitrum 34 - 70 lbs, 32" draw.

Shot a doe in September and she ran into some sudex that was between 5-7 ft tall. I'm 6'6" and found blood above eye level. Cut the top part of her heart off and blood was shooting all over the place! The sudex was thick, but I only had to travel about 15 yards into it to find her.

My buck was shot at 30 yds, ran a quick 20 yds or so and just collapsed. Blood was puddled around him. He was a double lung shot, shredded them! When you see the entry wound you will be amazed!

Did NOT read all the posts here - so I expect someone already recommended these !!!

http://www.wacemarchery.com/

The broadhead market is way over complicated.

I shoot rage hypodermics
-Jake

I just started shot my first archery deer with a Muzzy broadhead and it did the trick. I've also heard Rage is a good one also, but where I live its fixed blades only.

Nawwwwwwww REALLLYYYYYYY :D What complicates it is more or less false advertisement. High speed compound bows started showing people that they HAD to have perfect tuning to shoot a fixed BH accurately and consistently. Old slow bows didn't show up the improper tuning AS BADLY as a 300+fps bow will. There are still a lot of BH's out there that flat out suck wind (good pun there don't ya think :D ) no matter how well your bow is tuned. I just experienced too many poor penetrating hits from mechanical BH's to ever trust them.

Criteria for a good broadhead is actually quite simple really.
1: Flies well in a properly tuned bow.
2: SHARP
3: Tough enough to penetrate light bone and not come apart on you.
4: Leave a good wound channel for faster bleedout.

Pretty simple really. Advertising and marketing makes it difficult.

Hard to beat a Muzzy

My personal choice is Grim Reaper 100grn RazorCut. 1-3/8ths cut. Have taken hogs, deer, bear, elk, 'yotes and a record Catalina Ram. Only the elk traveled over 100yds and that's because he was going down hill on his way out!!!!!!! All the rest dropped within sight under 75 yds. Not 1 failure to open, impossible to happen. Open while going thru a piece of paper.