Mechanical just add one more chance of something going wrong, in bow hunting everything has to be right so my very little 2 cents is shoot a good fixed blade and that eliminates one potential problem.
You just don't get it, but keep flaming what you do not understand. Big broad head heavy arrow it is a simple concept, compared to basing your knowledge on what you see on a hunting show.
First of all you do nothing but display ignorance with comments like that and true conservatives want you off their side when you use comments like that.
hehe heard this debate before. I think it's mainly about shot placement. but I do prefer the forgiveness of a fixed blade broadhead. I'll take a 150grn 2 blade 500grain arrow over any mechanical broadhead when it comes to hitting bone
old skill saw blade and a field point ya can make a fixed 2 blade pretty quick as big as ya want hehe..pain in arse grinding down weld though. been brazing with brass makes it alot easier.
first time poster so forgive me. I have seen this argument many places and I think it does boil down to shot placement. First off, if you make a perfect shot every time it won't matter, but this is bow hunting and we know that's not a realistic scenario. As a Rage 2-blade user for 8 years, I have absolutely no doubt that the larger cutting diameter can make a difference on "marginal" shots farther back then you would like. The increased cutting diameter does some incredible damage and can make the difference between finding and not finding a deer on those shots. I have seen it with 1 buck and 1 doe that I have taken myself. That said, you are giving up penetration and there are times when you just flat out won't get through the shoulder depending on the situation. Its a give and take, like any hunting equipment. For me what tips the scales is I can rely on them to shoot exactly like my field tips. I shoot at a public range all summer that does not allow broadheads. So the confidence of knowing exactly where they are going is why I keep choosing them.
I have had rage broadheads fail for me before. I shot a turkey at 21 yds. And I got 1 inch of penetration. I didn't get any penetration passed the blades. (#63 , 28 in draw) When I walked up on my arrow both blades on the rage 2 blade were on the same side, both of them jammed and bent with feathers lodged in between them. I could not get them apart. When you have free floating blades like that things can go wrong. I know this does not happen a lot but I have seen this happen to others as well. I really liked those heads after using them a couple times but I started seeing flaws in rage as time went on. I shot them for 4 years and I probably won't use them again. I have had other problems with them other than this situation I just described. I will say that they have improved the broadhead in the last few years but it still opens the same way. There are better mechanicals on the market in my opinion.
