A Huge ? on Mechanical Brodheads, Please read!

[casilva43]

Yes, too many tests are done to make sure mechanical broadheads work everytime.

[rjtkdplus]

Yes

[tjb86]

Yes

[JTeLarkin08]

I think they probably opened.. But you killed the animals so seems that they did their job

[Texastaxi]

I feel very strongly, both ways!

[Cowpolks-TR]

I would guess no since you posted this. But, killed a hog that only ran 40 yards so it worked either way.

[flywise]

This is very simple logic. I have never understood the infatuation with moving parts on a broadhead.

In all my years on TBH I do not recall a
My fix blade failed thread
Fix blades have been killing large game for a few thousand years
Mechanicals have been failing for 20 years..........Hmmmm

[Smart]

Mudslinger....you have strung us on long enough! Spill it!..

[JackFlash]

x 3

yes x4

[Speedgoat]

All hail the brainiac...

Dang, twice in one day?!! I might make it in to your deer camp afterall

[Mudslinger]

OK! This is the original Inverter broadhead that I bought from Rocky a couple of years ago. I shot a sow with this head on Saturday night square on the shoulder about 1/2 way up the body. It was not a full pass thru, but there was an exit and entrance hole. She broke off 8" from the fletching end when she ran by one of the feeder legs. The remaining 20" was laying on the ground about 4 yards from where she was standing when I shot her. There was blood immediately on the ground where she stood and this blood trail was undoubtedly the best blood trail I have had on an animal in many a year. I examined the entrance and exit holes when I found her because I did not know at first if the blades did open as the pics show how the head was when I picked it up off the ground. Yes the o ring was missing but I still did not know for sure. The exit hole was over 1 1/2" so that tells me that the blades did open or the cut would not have been this big.

What I am trying to say or get to and I did not do a very good job of doing so is the fact that a lot of people shoot an animal with a mechanical and find the head like pictured above and automatically assume the blades did not open without looking closer at the head or the entrance or exit holes even if they find the animal. I had to check my exit hole to make sure these blades did open as I was not sure.

YES both blades did deploy leaving a MASSIVE, easy to follow 40 yard blood trail with a dead sow at then end of that trail.

[Texastaxi]

Dang, Doug, why didn't you just say so?

So, do you think this entrance hole is a good indication that the Rage opened?

[Speedgoat]

Rage, meh

[casilva43]

OK! This is the original Inverter broadhead that I bought from Rocky a couple of years ago. I shot a sow with this head on Saturday night square on the shoulder about 1/2 way up the body. It was not a full pass thru, but there was an exit and entrance hole. She broke off 8" from the fletching end when she ran by one of the feeder legs. The remaining 20" was laying on the ground about 4 yards from where she was standing when I shot her. There was blood immediately on the ground where she stood and this blood trail was undoubtedly the best blood trail I have had on an animal in many a year. I examined the entrance and exit holes when I found her because I did not know at first if the blades did open as the pics show how the head was when I picked it up off the ground. Yes the o ring was missing but I still did not know for sure. The exit hole was over 1 1/2" so that tells me that the blades did open or the cut would not have been this big.

What I am trying to say or get to and I did not do a very good job of doing so is the fact that a lot of people shoot an animal with a mechanical and find the head like pictured above and automatically assume the blades did not open without looking closer at the head or the entrance or exit holes even if they find the animal. I had to check my exit hole to make sure these blades did open as I was not sure.

YES both blades did deploy leaving a MASSIVE, easy to follow 40 yard blood trail with a dead sow at then end of that trail.

I'm glad you pointed this out. I often hear hunters saying mechanical blades failed to open as a reason to not recovering an animal or finding the blades in the closed position when retrieving his or her arrow. Mechanical broadheads are test to ensure they open each and every time. I'm not saying crazy things don't happen, but I would bet everytime the head worked properly.

[elkbowhunter]

Fixed Blade Failed Thread

interesting.