Bowhunting.com’s 2017 Broadhead Evaluation

Our 2017 Broadhead Evaluation tested broadhead accuracy, durability and penetration to find out which heads perform the best in each... Read more...

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Some of the blades did better than I thought and some didn't. Will be good to see next years test at different distances.

 

Nice job.

 

Wow great job!!


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Awesome test guys thanks for taking to the time to do it so well


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All these years later, the original Slick Trick still among the top of the pack. Not bad for a 15 plus year old design.

 

Great test, thanks for putting this on!

 

Things I noticed.


Rocky mountain warhead was open in flight before hitting the plywood.


It appears that the rage Trypan was also open in flight.


During the gel test it looks like a few of the mech heads were open during flight.


To me this is a failure in design and could certainly impact accuracy. If their retention system does not do the job, its fail. The bow you were using was not exactly a speed bow and the poundage was not one that should have cause mech heads to open in flight.


Perhaps the next time you do a test, do a test of the mech heads using the factory retention systems and high speed cameras to show which ones are opening prematurely as that would be a deciding factor in purchasing a mech head.

 

I have shot mechanicals in all forms of open 1 blade etc and have not witnessed a difference in flight or accuracy. Not that opening in flight is not a design failure but certainly not a difference maker.

 

I noticed this as well. Unfortunately I wasn't on hand for most of the testing so I'm not sure if the operator failed to put the rubber band on it before they shot. We didn't notice until well after the high speed camera had been returned. Next year I'll personally be there for the entire thing and we're allotting some additional time to make sure stuff like this doesn't happen.

We shot that one twice because the first one it was open - they used a broadhead that had already been shot and the collar was worn out. The second shot with a new collar and fresh broadhead it was not open.

I don't recall seeing any, and the cutting diameter on entry didn't seem to indicate they were. But I guess anything is possible.

That is on "the list" for next year. I'd like to film them coming off the bow to see if any are opening on release.

 

Great job guys. I found it very helpful being new to bow hunting.

 

Great review, thanks for doing it. I like the idea of extending the accuracy distances for next year. I think that would really separate the broad heads from each other, especially for those who might be headed west.

 

Great test. A thought for the next time, perhaps shoot both 100 and 125gr versions of the same head where applicable. I'd also really like to see VPA represented in the tests also.

 

Thanks for doing the testing and posting the results. It really helps a lot, thanks again!!

 

We're planning a separate video on how arrow weight affects flight and penetration, so this will probably fall under that realm.

 

Thanks for taking the time and putting in the effort. It was interesting to see the Rage was one of the most accurate(from 20 yards). The plywood test was interesting to see how quickly that arrow was slowed down and was pretty much stopped halfway through the board, yet it did relatively well in the ballistic gel. Lots of good info.

 

That one is deceiving because I thought the same thing when I watched the video.

All of the arrows were blowing clean through the plywood and ripping the fletchings off on their way through, so the guys ran out of fletched arrows before the testing was done. So they started grabbing arrows out of my quiver which happened to be laying around and using them to get things finished up. Trouble is the original testing was done with a 485 grain Rampage and I had 385 grain Zombie Slayers in my quiver from turkey season. Hence the reason a few of them slowed down - lighter arrow and fatter shaft.

 

"I don't recall seeing any, and the cutting diameter on entry didn't seem to indicate they were. But I guess anything is possible."

This is what jumped out to me. 2" mechanicals producing 1-1/16" cut diameters! If that is common why use them?

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That makes sense, probably should have made a note of that in the video. It definitely stood out watching the video, I didn't notice it being a different arrow. So we're talking about quite a bit less KE with that setup.

 

Well keep in mind we're testing on a piece of leather-covered ballistics gel and not a live animal. Plenty of people out there have experienced 2+" entry holes with various mechanical heads over the years. The test isn't exact - it's just what we observed at that time. The composition of animal hair, hide, ribs, etc is going to produce different results.