Broad head question

[Jonathan_S]

So weird... turkeys and bobcats are tender little animals.

Cougar125...lets see some pictures 

[TheHunt]

I am wondering if a mechanical broadhead will do with elk bones.  Elk bones are much thicker and those bones sure tear up a fix blade broadhead.  I am wondering how they will play with an elk?

[MattySuto]

I am wondering if a mechanical broadhead will do with elk bones.  Elk bones are much thicker and those bones sure tear up a fix blade broadhead.  I am wondering how they will play with an elk?

They won't get through a should blade.... But if you pull the shot to the right an miss the blade you should be in good shape...

[MattySuto]

It's a Rage what do you expect..... There not reliable My   

Do you have experience to back your opinion?
My opinion is still just forming on them. I only have one first hand experience at this point. The head did as it was supposed to.
Even went through the mesh window on my blind without hiccup.
I'm not real impressed with the aluminum ferrules and how hey align in my arrows but the one shot I took did as expected.
Though I'm not sure it did anything better than a fixed head.

Yes I hunted with Bow in NY for many years where mechanicals are legal... Rages where the new hot thing when they first came out and I have personally had issues with them deploying or only 1 side opening up and
If you had a pass through you couldn't reuse the tip cause it would bend... So if you bought replacement blades you might as well but new pack of broadheads..... I have had them deploy before impact I have a buddy who had his broad head not even deploy on impact an chased a white tail like 8 miles.... These are just my stories on rages but some people swear by them ... Maybe I just bought a bad batch... I mean there's a cool saying .. Rage in the Cage you have that going for us...

[MattySuto]

Broadheads are inexpensive enough that I'll retire them after a kill.  Most of the time the broadhead makes its decision by mangling itself up or by being bent/broken inside a running animal.

I shot a Montec through a turkey.  The arrow went into the tall, thick grass and slowed to a stop without ever burying into the ground.  Even that was enough to fold the Montec into a tin foil heap     I thought it was a fluke but it happened again the next year.  I will never hunt anything bigger than a turkey with those 

It's a Rage what do you expect..... There not reliable My   

I don't prefer them either but I don't think I'd call them "unreliable"...but hey, it's your  to give 

You have about the same experience with montec as I do. I shot a bobcat with one and it broke and bent to crap. 

I have had my Montecs bend .. The carbon ones did ... The stainless steel I have had no issues with them ... I switched to the Havocs and I'm very impressed with them... I haven't killed an animal with them but I blew through my target at 50 yards with one ... Then shot a field point at 20 yards and didn't blow through... We shall see ...

[BULLBLASTER]

It's a Rage what do you expect..... There not reliable My   

Do you have experience to back your opinion?
My opinion is still just forming on them. I only have one first hand experience at this point. The head did as it was supposed to.
Even went through the mesh window on my blind without hiccup.
I'm not real impressed with the aluminum ferrules and how hey align in my arrows but the one shot I took did as expected.
Though I'm not sure it did anything better than a fixed head.

Yes I hunted with Bow in NY for many years where mechanicals are legal... Rages where the new hot thing when they first came out and I have personally had issues with them deploying or only 1 side opening up and
If you had a pass through you couldn't reuse the tip cause it would bend... So if you bought replacement blades you might as well but new pack of broadheads..... I have had them deploy before impact I have a buddy who had his broad head not even deploy on impact an chased a white tail like 8 miles.... These are just my stories on rages but some people swear by them ... Maybe I just bought a bad batch... I mean there's a cool saying .. Rage in the Cage you have that going for us...

good to hear first hand experience.

[Cougar125]

I have no complaints with how the RAGE 2 Blade SC performed.  I'm sure the deer did.



Entry



Exit - One of the blades went completely through a rib on entry.  No bones on exit.



Took the bottom out!

[SGTDuffman]

I am wondering if a mechanical broadhead will do with elk bones.  Elk bones are much thicker and those bones sure tear up a fix blade broadhead.  I am wondering how they will play with an elk?

I'd guess not well. My buddy shot a ~500 grain set up with a 150gr VPA 3 blade out of a 70# Mathews into an elk shoulder and it stopped dead in it's tracks...the broadhead, not the elk. The elk trotted a few steps before the arrow fell out. I was down at the bottom of the hill when he did it, I saw his elk trot by about 120 yds across a draw in a clear cut. If it weren't for a little bit of blood, you wouldn't have known he was shot. There wasn't a hitch in his step. Spent all day looking for him, hoping the penetration was better than it was.