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Offline Dave8pt

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Looking for BroadHead
« on: July 16, 2009, 05:07:59 PM »
Hey all, trying to find some new broadheads for the upcoming deer/elk season.  Just wanting to get some suggestions from like minded hunters.  The focus will be elk, but mule deer are in the area too.  I've owned and have been shooting my bow (Bowtech 2009 Sniper) since last December but have yet to try out broadheads.  I'm asking because it's been YEARS since the last time I bowhunted.  So if anyone's got some experience with a particular head that they liked or disliked, I'd like to hear from you.  Thanks
« Last Edit: July 16, 2009, 06:11:29 PM by KillBilly »

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Re: Looking for BraodHead
« Reply #1 on: July 16, 2009, 05:14:35 PM »
any good quality cut on contact head will work fine...shot placement and consistency is key.

i use slick trick 100's but i haven't killed anything with my bow so take my advice with a grain of salt.  :)

if you search on here you'll find hours of reading material on the subject. it's a topic thats been covered in depth numerous times.
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Re: Looking for BraodHead
« Reply #2 on: July 16, 2009, 05:22:22 PM »
slick tricks is a great head for new and old hunters cuz they fly like field points...and make a BIG hole
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Re: Looking for BraodHead
« Reply #3 on: July 16, 2009, 05:25:00 PM »
I have been shooting thunderheads for about 20 years. tried them all 160, 150, 125, and the 100's, whitch I am shooting now. Tough head and tough blades. With a little tuning they shoot pretty well. I have taken about 20 animals with them, the few I lost wasn't because of the broadhead.

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Re: Looking for BraodHead
« Reply #4 on: July 16, 2009, 06:10:51 PM »
Check out magnus broadheads. I have shot the stingers and buzzcuts. Fly like field points, are cut on contact and have a lifetime warranty.

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Re: Looking for BroadHead
« Reply #5 on: July 16, 2009, 07:13:47 PM »
    What a great chance to tell my story about the sharpest broadheads on the market. Magnus stingers 2 blade only!
My brother and i were hunting a different ridge we usualy hunt and called up a monster bull, but we ran out of daylight so we had to back out and return to the same spot the next mornig. Well the next mornig we got a late start getting to the trail head that led up to the top of the ridge. As we were getting out of our rig we heard  a bull bugling on the next finger ridge over and decided to get after it. After a couple of set ups the bull just didnt want to come in, so we tried a more aggressive techniqe, we just kept bugling and pushing the bull over each finger ridge trying to spark up other bulls that could be in some of the drainages.  And holy chit it worked! we ended up the elks bedroom, there were bulls bugling all over.  We set up again and i can hear two bulls fighting about 150 yards up the hill so i ran up as fast as i can and try to get a shot.  Two bulls, both nice 6 points, they wouldnt keep still long enough to get a good shot so i just stayed patient.  As i watched these bulls battling, i can hear another bull bugling and coming straight toward me and he sounds like a monster! and i was right, the bull walked right in front of me at 10 yards! quartering away shot, one lung and liver. I was frickin buzzin man!!! after gathering myself, i went to get my brother to tell him that i shot a bull of a lifetime. We waited a agonizing hour and a half before tracking, after about 100 yards the bull was down! WOW!, what a hunt to remember shared between brothers. Now the real work begins, just one problem we left our packs, knives, water everthing back at the truck, no way to gut this elk out. we sat a few minutes and i looked at my arrows and i broke one in half and said to my brother, we just have use my broadheads, so theres the story, gutted a whole elk with magnus stingers, sharp as hell!!!!

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Re: Looking for BroadHead
« Reply #6 on: July 16, 2009, 08:02:13 PM »
been shootin thunderheads since 1991, 13 elk and two deer later still using them.

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Re: Looking for BroadHead
« Reply #7 on: July 16, 2009, 08:06:10 PM »
I'm always looking for a more consistent head.  Ever practice with broadheads and they all work perfect, then all of a sudden have one that sends your arrow into a winger......hopefully not when a 350 bull is standing in front of you. 

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Re: Looking for BroadHead
« Reply #8 on: July 16, 2009, 08:11:06 PM »
I'm always looking for a more consistent head.  Ever practice with broadheads and they all work perfect, then all of a sudden have one that sends your arrow into a winger......hopefully not when a 350 bull is standing in front of you. 

Thats why you get spittin close Bone!....... :chuckle:

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Re: Looking for BroadHead
« Reply #9 on: July 16, 2009, 08:13:51 PM »
YEP!

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Re: Looking for BroadHead
« Reply #10 on: July 16, 2009, 08:18:50 PM »
All comes down to proper tuning with broadheads.

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Re: Looking for BroadHead
« Reply #11 on: July 16, 2009, 08:20:23 PM »
Thats what i like to see xXx Archery!! 

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Re: Looking for BroadHead
« Reply #12 on: July 16, 2009, 11:06:15 PM »
Muzzy's work good.  You can buy them just about anywhere if you loose all your arrows your first hunt.  I have ran into several guys with only 1 arrow in the quiver.  They mis judged the animals and lost there arrows.
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Re: Looking for BroadHead
« Reply #13 on: July 17, 2009, 08:15:17 AM »
Muzzy's work good.  You can buy them just about anywhere if you loose all your arrows your first hunt.  I have ran into several guys with only 1 arrow in the quiver.  They mis judged the animals and lost there arrows.

Well good is not good enought for me...That might have something to do with you loosing all your arrows
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Re: Looking for BroadHead
« Reply #14 on: July 17, 2009, 08:18:07 AM »
The muzzys I had flew like *censored* with my fobs!!! Slick tricks are golden with em!!

 


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