Rage failure,kinda

[Shain Hunn]

As well I have used the Rage and was dissapointed as was Ohio Darin posted earlier. I believe you should take all the guess out of it and use a good quality fixed B/H. Last year I shot a buck at 22 yds. slightly quartered and got very little penatration and found nothing more than a weak blood trail. I will never use anything other than fixed!

[acearrow]

Well, I guess everyone has their preference and reasoning for the broad head they use. The Rage has never failed for me. As far as people claiming they only got 2" of penetration, I find that hard to believe unless it was directly into a bone. I have heard of rubber heads getting that much penetration at close range. Just ask the guy that shot a cow with a blunt and the cow walked off with his arrow.(explain that to the rancher).

[Leftridge]

1) Great shot.. Congrats!
2) I had a rage break blades off when it passed through the deer and hit the ground.. I'm positive it was the ground that took the blades off and it was missing the pin.. Dead deer though so.. I don't really see them as reuasable.. Thats just me..

[bowhntrmatt]

I like it when they work, but I am not a fan of RAGE broadheads anymore as they are too maintenance intensive.

X2. I want a broadhead I can trust, not one I have to babysit.

[Lost Buckaroo]

OK, first I don't see were there was operator failure I put that broad head exactly where it should have been and have a 127-7/8 ten point to show for it. second, I swear buy the rage 2 blade I have shot several deer with them and driven them thru some serious whitetail bone and believe in them totaly.why the blade fell out I don't know, but I will continue to shoot them for deer. things happen

[Lost Buckaroo]

a guy on the lease shot a cull buck sunday and when he skinned it he found a slicktrick head in the shoulder muscle. now this is where it gets wierd. the broad head was in pieces the blades were out of the body of the head and laying stacked on top of each other on top of the body with the washer on top of them totaly incapsulated by tissue. totaly unexplainable and wild. no piece of arrow was present. how did the head unscrew from the shaft? how did the blades escape the alcatraz locking system and end up stacked on top of each other?

[wacm]

nothin personel but i believe if the broad head would have been properly mantained this would'nt have happened.
Its like starting a thread that says nikon failure "kinda" after you drop your gun out of the backt of your pickup and you cant hit what you aim at. Its not the scope or the broadheads fault. Its you not takin care of it properly.

[Big Spec]

nice buck, congrats

[nsbowhunter]

I shot a buck this past saturday with a rage two blade that I had shot a turkey with the week before and resharpened. when I climbed down from the tripod to pick up my arrow I noticed that 1 of the blades was missing and the roll pin was half way out. I did find the blade laying on the ground, I am not sure how all this took place but I will be checking the pins on the rest of my BH's thats for sure. good luck

I personally don't care if a broadhead breaks after the shot. I'm only concerned before and during.

OR price shopping for the cheapest taxidermist after you've spent THOUSANDS of $$$$ on hunting that dang deer!

Some things I'll never understand.

I couldn't agree more!

[DRT]

I am a fixed blade fan. I shoot Thunderhead 100s. That said I bought a package of Rage 2 blades to try. The buck in the avatar was shot at 35 yards, a little far back but double lunged and ran 200 yards with no discernible blood trail the first 150 yards. Fortunately it was across a picked soy bean field and I saw it the entire way. This pig I shot in the dark with my Mini-Sniper hog light and did not get good shot placement. It was far back, high and I found 1 drop of blood in the 125 yards he ran. But the Rage head made up for the bad shot. I had missed the same pig the night before, resharpened the Rage head and shot him with it the next night. I got 7" of penetration and a dead hog. The head is resharpened and back in the quiver.

I've sharpened fixed heads for years, the mechanical blades can be successfully resharpened as well. I don't think I would have recovered the hog with the marginal hit from the Thunderhead as the cut width is so small compared to the Rage. But I'm not throwing away the Thunderheads either.

By the way, great deer. Congrats.

[tinman]

You guys are made of money...

I bought a pack of Simmons Landsharks (6 for $35) nearly 3 years ago and have killed a critter with each of the remaining 4 broadheads...clean 'em, spin check 'em, sharpen 'em, and hunt with 'em again.

The all get damaged sometimes but I wouldn't buy a broadhead that didn't stand a chance of being sharpened (or the blades replaced) and re-used after just one kill....especially at $39 for 3!

[ShockValue]

nothin personel but i believe if the broad head would have been properly mantained this would'nt have happened.
Its like starting a thread that says nikon failure "kinda" after you drop your gun out of the backt of your pickup and you cant hit what you aim at. Its not the scope or the broadheads fault. Its you not takin care of it properly.

What wouldn't have happened? He wouldn't have killed the deer that he made a perfect shot on?

Of all the archery products out there, Rage has the most apologists when there is even the slightest mention of their inadequacy! IMHO

I'm a Magnus Stinger/Buzzcut apologist, myself!

[wacm]

these heads are not designed to be resharpened. They sell replacement blades for a reason, and in each pack of blades is, you guessed it, replacement screws. You cant pound these heads into bone and rocks and expect just to pick it back up and run a stone over the blade and all is well! Its just like every other piece of hunting equipment you have,
neglect it and its gonna fail.

[Texastaxi]

Just because it cost alot doesn't mean it is the best.

You're absolutely correct, but more times than not, price does hold water in regards to the taxidermy industry. If you don't think there's a difference in taxidermists, there are two threads about taxidermy, posted in the last few days, that will prove my point. If you can't find them, let me know and I'll PM you the links.

[CLR]

If Rage knew they had a problem with the roll pin then they should have let the distributors know and recalled them for repair. I know you could not get all of them but they could have told the distributors about the problem and to pull what they had off of the shelf. When you pay that much for a broadhead we should not have to hope that the blades stay on until it makes it through the animal and not before it gets there. We pay good money for the best to make a clean and ethical kill and we get this roll pin problem that some of us believe was not addressed properly. Yes, in this instance the animal went home with the shooter but we should not have to hope for our broadheads to stay together before the shot. I too tried them once with the same results. All and every shot can not be compared together because of all the different variables but blades being gone from a double lung shot, houston we have a problem. There is a lot of ifs in bowhunting but i don't want to add another one if i can prevent it.