I have been through several different broadheads in the past 4 years of my bowhunting and killed critters with each - Spitfires, Bloodrunners, Muzzies, Slick Tricks, and now Ramcats.
I really like how the Ramcats fly and I've already ordered three more plus replacement blades. However, the blood trails on the two animals I've killed this year have been, in a word, non-existent. I am hoping that it is just the circumstances of the two kills and not the Ramcats. Let me explain.
On opening weekend of bow season, I shot the hog below just as it was starting to drizzle (the sky, not the hog). By the time I climbed out of my stand, it was raining pretty good. I got a complete pass-through, but couldn't find any blood at all. I chalked it up to the rain washing the blood away.
The next morning, a steady stream of coyotes led me to the body (not 50 yards from where I shot him). Nice big hole on both sides of him.
This past Friday morning, I shot the 10 point below.
Again, complete pass-through and he ran about 50 yards and stood there swaying like he was about to keel over. Then he trotted off into the woods. 25minutes later, I picked up my blood-covered arrow and couldn't find a drop of blood on the ground where I shot him; couldn't find a drop where he was standing and swaying; couldn't find a drop in the woods where he entered. After an hour and a half, I went in for breakfast. Then I searched another two hours and when I was about to give up, I walked a few yards in a completely different direction than I had been looking and found him 30 yards in the woods. Nice big holes on both sides, a little farther back than I aimed, but double lung.
I want to settle on Ramcats as my permanent broadhead. Tell me that I had strange circumstances on these two kills and that I will have good blood trails in the future.
I really like how the Ramcats fly and I've already ordered three more plus replacement blades. However, the blood trails on the two animals I've killed this year have been, in a word, non-existent. I am hoping that it is just the circumstances of the two kills and not the Ramcats. Let me explain.
On opening weekend of bow season, I shot the hog below just as it was starting to drizzle (the sky, not the hog). By the time I climbed out of my stand, it was raining pretty good. I got a complete pass-through, but couldn't find any blood at all. I chalked it up to the rain washing the blood away.
The next morning, a steady stream of coyotes led me to the body (not 50 yards from where I shot him). Nice big hole on both sides of him.
This past Friday morning, I shot the 10 point below.
Again, complete pass-through and he ran about 50 yards and stood there swaying like he was about to keel over. Then he trotted off into the woods. 25minutes later, I picked up my blood-covered arrow and couldn't find a drop of blood on the ground where I shot him; couldn't find a drop where he was standing and swaying; couldn't find a drop in the woods where he entered. After an hour and a half, I went in for breakfast. Then I searched another two hours and when I was about to give up, I walked a few yards in a completely different direction than I had been looking and found him 30 yards in the woods. Nice big holes on both sides, a little farther back than I aimed, but double lung.
I want to settle on Ramcats as my permanent broadhead. Tell me that I had strange circumstances on these two kills and that I will have good blood trails in the future.
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