Personal opinion here but slick tricks have been great for me. Fly great, are inexpensive, and are very very sharp! Fiance shoots razor tricks and I shoot grizztrick 2s sent from the room next door!
I used thunderheads but i don't like how they fly. trying the atom from arrowds.com you can also get them on amazon
Used to shoot rage 3 blade but picked up a pack of muzzy trocar broadheads for this year. I hope they work!
What do you guys think, would you use a NAP Bloodrunner II 2-Blade out of a Bone Collector Mesh Windows ground blind?
NAP Spitfires. I like them. Before that was G5 montec. Hated them. Before that was the G5 Teken II. Loved them. To each his own.
slick trick magnum. pass through every time so far yet to hit a sholder blade. My brother hit a deer in a kneecap in its rear leg (off day twig in the way..i don't know) deer died, as if it was a heart shot. yet to use a mechanical. i was thinking of using swacker i seem to like their concept the best.
Unless you are 100 percent tuned up and shooting 4" vanes, stick to mechanicals. Any mechanical will kill if you tag the vitals. Some of the fixed blade heads seem to be more durable if you punch a shoulder, but (at least for me) hitting what you aim at is reason enough to use a mechanical. In most cases a mechanical will give you more cutting surface, but overdoing it may decrease penetration. I killed 5 deer with grim reaper heads and none went more than 40 yards. If you use the reapers, I recommend using the smaller 1-3/8" cut over the white tail special 1-3/4" cut. In the end, it all boils down to shot placement and a true flying arrow
With mechanicals you don't have to change anything or tune anything correct? But with fixed you need to change vanes and all?
I trust the guy at my pro shop him and his dad have been in business for at least 35 years. A fixed head has a blade surface area that that can alter trajectory if the blades catch air at an angle. Greater stability is achieved as the surface area of fletchings increases. Blazer vanes were designed to correct this problem, but IMO they don't do the job as well as larger vanes. Feathers are better than rubber for fixed blades. Stability is achieved by increasing drag at the rear of the arrow, which of course, slows the arrow a bit. Anyway, my two cents and the advice I received from a couple of pros with several P&Y critters on the wall. I wanted to switch to Magnus Stinger Buzzcuts, but was advised against doing so with my 3" vanes.
I am trying the Toxic broadhead this year. I have read nothing but positive things and they fly just like field tips.
I have given mechanicals some serious thoughts this year....I swear by my Slick Tricks but also realize any head will kill and may just for a little change. I am going to be changing my whole set up though next year to Alaskan Bowhunting tapered arrows (high FOC as well) and single beveled two bladed heads. Been reading on them nearly every day it seems for over a year now and just love the concept and science behind them and the high foc tapered heads. All that said is pointless though, tipping your arrows is all about you. Pick a broadhead you want to use and make sure you can put the shot where it counts. If you can't do that nothing matters and if you CAN do that broadhead choice doesn't matter really either IMO. All heads have killed, are killing and will kill in the future.
