Slick tricks

[AgHntr10]

I'm not trying to bash or anything but I shot a deer this evening and got a clean pass through when I picked up my arrow one of the blades was bent. There are no rocks on the ground, so the only hard thing it could have hit other than the shoulder bone was a stick on the ground. I guess i'm just being nit-picky but I read so many good things aboiut blade durability on them, and people shooting rhinos with them and never having bent blades, so I was wondering what was up.

The deer did only go ten yards and piled up though

[DaveC]

Congrats on the doe!

I bent a blade last week as well. (ever so slightly)

Oh well, I just slap in some new ones and keep on rollin'.

I've got so many spare blades now a blade for an animal is an easy trade off for me.

I've cratered phantoms, stingers, muzzy 3 blades and multiple mechanicals on animals as well.

[texag93]

I figure to write off a BH per animal. Bones will bend or even brake blades. There is so much force applied to such a thin piece of metal, its hard to think they wouldn't bend. We spend so much on hunting, few bucks for BH's is nothing.

[Landrover]

So what's the problemo??? I use new blades just by default, have zero issues with ST's. You got the doe in the freezer....

[Tex_Cattleman]

I have to say the broadhead did it's job perfectly. Replacement blades are like 10 bucks for a set of three. You had a doe down at 10 yards and it will cost you a little over $3 to have a brand new head ready to roll.

Congrats on the doe.

[Casey]

Yeah, if you release the arrow, you might as well figure both it and the broadhead are goners. If you can salvage either...bonus!

Congratulations on the doe!

[308 Dave]

The deer did only go ten yards and piled up though

Mission accomplished! Congratulations.

[keep]

I figure to write off a BH per animal. Bones will bend or even brake blades. There is so much force applied to such a thin piece of metal, its hard to think they wouldn't bend. We spend so much on hunting, few bucks for BH's is nothing.

Well said, my thoughts exactly.
Even though there are no rocks around I never trust that it didn't hit one or a tree or something else that would bend it, unless it stays in the animal. That said, I had a ST blade bend a little last year when I hit my elk in the point of the shoulder. Much like you the animal didn't go far though.

[Smart]

I'm not trying to bash or anything but I shot a deer this evening and got a clean pass through when I picked up my arrow one of the blades was bent.

The deer did only go ten yards and piled up though

At $16 for three sets of replacement blades, I'd say you got your money's worth only having to track her 10 yards.

If you can bend it with pliers it can be bent with bone and speed........

[Arrowsmith]

ST's

Slick Tricks are tough but like any other broadhead not indestructable. They have .035 blade thickness and a soild steel ferrule. Muzzy came out with the MX-4 in response to Slick Tricks great success (4 blade, short profile). On the exact same hit with an aluminum ferrule and .025 blades....I wonder what damage the MX-4 would have sustained???

In the last couple of years ST's have attained a superman status among broadheads...in reality they are only human....but a tough human.

I will take a 10 yard bloodtrail any day. Congratulations on your doe!!!!!

[BIG D]

I agree that I am willing to trash an arrow and a broadhead for a good clean kill.

[Arquero]

Yeah, if you release the arrow, you might as well figure both it and the broadhead are goners. If you can salvage either...bonus!

I have to agree with this 100%. I was actually able to break a ferrule into four pieces last year. I shot a buck at less than ten yards so the arrow didn't even slow down before hitting a rock in the ground. The buck went less than twenty yards before piling up so I'd say that poor little broadhead served it's purpose and will be remembered fondly.

Congrats on the deer.

[LTH]

Unless it's targets I see my set up like a bullet. Once fired not much chance of getting it back intact.

[Jimbow]

Congratulations on the doe, but remember a bent blade is still cutting and doing its job. You have to figure you lost one practice blade. I always install new blades after I've shot an animal.

[Howard]

I bet the tip and main part are still perfect. I have bent a blade on a slick trick one time after a terrible shot in the leg bone. had to use pliers to get the blades broke off but the tip is still like a surgical needle. I would bet any amount of money a "stick" didnt bend the blade.

Congrats on the BUCK nice spike....dont know where people are getting a doe from







Slick tricks are tougher than any other head I have used. They would have come apart or been ruined