Broadhead of choice this season?

It's my first bow so I really don't know much. I brought it to a pro shop and he said that I needed to use expandables because the arrow is so close to the bow. Tomorrow I'll post a pic of a knocked target arrow. Maybe then you can see it better.

 

Nothing about this makes sense from the info provided IMO. Perhaps a longer arrow would get the BH away from the bow?


If anything I would presume the opposite of what that guy told you would be true. Older bow typically is slower which would mean a fixed blade very well could be better to increase the chance of pass throughs. .

 

Where's the smiley slapping his forehead? Exactly why most "pro" shops aren't... if you know what I mean.

If I were to lean ANY way in the age of a bow being a determining factor in shooting a fixed or a mech (which it has NOTHING to do with anything...), I'd lean AGAINST shooting a mech out of it -- simply because if it's REALLY "older" it may not produce a requisite amount of kinetic energy to deploy properly and produce a pass-through...

There's too many idiots working in bow shops.

 

Sorry Brad... didn't read your response before I went off on my tirade; I just immediately shook my head and started venting.

 

Im possibaly going to go with the NAP blood runners (2 blade 100 G.)

 

muzzys 100 g never done me wrong

 

Rage 2 Blades Baby!

 

Same old 100 grain Wal-Mart broadheads. I'm not sure what the name is, but they're blue with a black tip. Maybe someone else uses them or knows the name of them? Anyway, that's about all I've ever used, but I do expect to start using 100 grain muzzy broadheads next season.

 

NAP Nitron. I got to witness first hand what these little dudes were capable of last year, and I was sold.

I want to shoot an animal with the Spitfire Maxx as well.

Also, a spear.

 

slick tricks 125 mags or slick trick 100 mags with a 25 grain weight behind it.

Tim

 

I shot a 2-blade Rage two years ago and last year was impressed with the Rocket Meat Seeker 2-blade. I think I will be sticking with the Meat Seeker, but am interested in taking a look at the NAP line as well.

 

Yeah, you don't have to shoot expandables. If its an older slower bow you should probably shoot a cut on contact head. Unless you are shooting a heavy arrow a lot of the energy is used up on expanding the head instead of cutting and that even has its limitations. A cut on contact does just what it says. It starts cutting on contact and the less blades you have the less resistance so you get deeper penitration.

As far as a fixxed blade not clearing it sounds like the rest and knocking point need to be moved up. My first bow was last season and it was a 1991 Bear Black panther. I moved my rest and knocking point up and it held fixed blad with 1-1/4" cutting diameter just fine.

One more thing, You should probably find you a different pro shop.

 

Sounds like the Real Tree brand. It looks like a good head in the pack hanging on the peg. I think thats what my brother had screwed in when he took his first archery deer last season. It left a decent blood trail and he droped about 75yd out. It was a marginal shot at best.

 

100 or 125 grain Shuttle T's for me.

 

As of right now, I think I'm sticking with the 100 gr. G5 Montec CS blades.

 

No problem. Hearing it from two people is probably better than one anyway.

 

125 grain Hellrazors for elk
125 grain Spitfire Maxx for whitetails

 

going to try out the G5 T3 this year. so far the practice tips (just blades) are going very well with my set up that i had to hardly make any adjustment at all.