Video of Rage Broadhead test

[The scout]

almost seems that the arrow is as big a failure, maybe partially making the head fail. I don't use mechanicals never will, just a observation.

[RadSav]

Glancing shots are the absolute worst for broadhead durability.  Especially when glancing into another hard media at a different angle.  Very few broadheads on the market hold up to this type of torture - Mechanical or Fixed.  Many of our torture tests are designed so the product will fail.  Double angled glancing shots are one of the more certain ways to make that failure happen.  How it fails can tell you a lot!

I remember being at a 3-D shoot years ago where we had a corrugated culvert shot on a broadhead novelty target.  Three bucks a shot.  Successful shooters had a shoot off for all the money.  Idea was simple - understand your arrows arch and just get it through the tube and you would hit the target.  At the end of the day there was a pile of broadheads and arrows in a bucket on the exit side of the culvert.  Blades catching on the corrugation, arrows glancing around...it was devastating on arrows and broadheads.  No brand or model seemed to claim any superior high ground after a bad shot.  It destroyed everything!  Probably made the local shops a lot of extra money

[blackveltbowhunter]

I truly believe archers should have (within reason) the choice to choose whatever product they think will perform the best with their given hunting style, setup, and ability and therefore applaud the fact that expandables have been legalized.

But I do question this attitude that somehow mechanicals are better on marginal shots? I can understand how a bigger entrance, with possibly more blood, bigger swathe MAY increase the chances of cutting something lethal on a certain percentage of shots that strike soft tissue and liver/gut hits etc. But what about the other percentage that go the other way, And result in significant contact with bone? Wouldn't the benefit of a stronger bladed broadhead be more desirable in that situation.

I really wanted to shoot an animal with an expandable this year for comparison. My quickest kill with a fixed blade is a estimated 2-3 seconds. both elk this year were combined well under 30 seconds. ( this is using "crash time", Not when I walked up. I still give elk a bit, to make sure I wasn't mistaking other elk "crashing" which has burned me in the past.)And the cow was what I consider a marginal hit. Does the extra cutting diameter make that big of a difference on "perfect" hits? 

[LeviD1]

Ill never use a mechanical again. Forget elk or beef shoulder, I hit the biggest buck I have seen in the shoulder this last season and found my arrow 80 yards later with blood only down 4 inches of it. No penetration. Switched back to my shuttle T's after that and got sadly a different deer later in the season quartering away passthrough on close rib then out the opposite shoulder. I'm going to stick with what works from now on. I have 6 100g schwackers for sale if anyone is interested! 

[sakoshooter]

Mixed thoughts: Both shots had the insert break free from the shaft almost as if it wasn't glued in correctly. Hard to tell for sure on the second shot but the first is obvious.
If that's the case, any broadhead could do the same thing under those circumstances.