Expandable Broadheads

[lostbackpacker]

Just a simple question.  Hopefully someone will have an educated answer. 

Why doesnt WA state allow expandable broadheads?

thanks
Mike
 

[h20hunter]

My understanding is that they are "barbed" and for a lost animal it doesn't have the same ability to pull itself out and give the animal a chance to heal.

[bhawley76]

good question! I would like to know the answer my self.

[D-Rock425]

Not 100% sure why there not legal.  I'm 100% sure I wouldn't use any even if legal.

[tonymiller7]

Washington likes to keep primitive weapons primative, thus no scopes on MLs, no 209 primers, cap has to be exposed to the elements, no crossbows, no expandalbe broadheads etc.

[bhawley76]

DROCK why so?

[Russ McDonald]

Not 100% sure why there not legal.  I'm 100% sure I wouldn't use any even if legal.

I would use them in a hear beat.

Washington likes to keep primitive weapons primative, thus no scopes on MLs, no 209 primers, cap has to be exposed to the elements, no crossbows, no expandalbe broadheads etc.

  Stupid in my opinion but correct.

[MtnMuley]

I'm 100% sure I wouldn't use any even if legal.

  Well put, especially with many of the new options of fixed broadheads.

[STIKNSTRINGBOW]

My understanding is that they are "barbed" and for a lost animal it doesn't have the same ability to pull itself out and give the animal a chance to heal.

As far as I know, this is the reason.
Was no "expandable" at the time the rule was written, just some heads that were barbed...
But, due to feedback from bowhunters, rule was amended to include prohibiting expendable's.
Only a matter of time, just like Lumenocks.

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as the statements posted while I was typing my response show..

[D-Rock425]

I see no benefit in them.  They lack penetration over a good sharp fixed blade.  They also have the a chance of failure to open.

[bhawley76]

I have seen them tear pigs apart in Georgia. They shoot great and make great ease in following a blood trail.

[Russ McDonald]

I see no benefit in them.  They lack penetration over a good sharp fixed blade.  They also have the a chance of failure to open.

They have changed alot D.  I have seen the work up and personal in MN.  I was shooting my MX-100 Muzzy and my aunt was shooting Grim Reapers.  The enterance wounds on both our deer were the same size the exit hole has a different story.  I could fit four fingers in the exit would on my aunts deer.  The exit wound on my deer wasn't much bigger than the entrance wound.  Your still working on old school thought.  Expandables have evolved so much that they are almost better than fixed broadheads. 

[elkaholic123]

I see no benefit in them.  They lack penetration over a good sharp fixed blade.  They also have the a chance of failure to open.

You have experience with them and their lack of penetration? I Have seen first hand what the Rage does to deer
        

[lostbackpacker]

My understanding is that they are "barbed" and for a lost animal it doesn't have the same ability to pull itself out and give the animal a chance to heal.

H2O, 

Not sure this is the answer.  Could be.  I know a guy who uses nothing but aluminum shafts.  He says they don't break.  So when he sticks an animal,it goes into the brush.  Every time that alum shaft hits a branch or tree, it doesn't break, it continues to gouge the animal making a bigger blood trail.  I think expandables would do the same thing... bigger cutting area, bigger blood trail especially if they don't fall out. 

[MtnMuley]

I see no benefit in them.  They lack penetration over a good sharp fixed blade.  They also have the a chance of failure to open.

Your still working on old school thought.  Expandables have evolved so much that they are almost better than fixed broadheads.

If they've evolved so much that they're almost better than fixed blades, then why would you use them in a "hear beat"??   Personally I wouldn't use something that is almost as good if they weren't better and the prices were the same.  Seems silly to me.