Opinions on THIS site... No way. I'm starting a crossbow + rage thread right now Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
imagine the guy in the video shoots the same setup on his bow only using a muzzy or montec fixed blade instead of rage. now if he does all the same tests as the first rage test and the fixed blades break then the test is complete. all broadheads fail. BUT if the fixed blades stay intact then we have a tentative problem with the rage. I think once he tests other broadheads we will get more of a general idea what the status between the two are. til then it's speculation. I am a fixed head guy but I could give a crap what everyone else shoots. what drives me nuts is the arrogance that is surrounding the rage products. all the arrogant commercials and the bragging about them just gets old. I think that is why they are loved or hated. like I've posted several times before. go on you tube and watch Wade Nolan's broadhead test. he tests several different heads not just one. and yes there are rage heads there as well.
It definitely is bad to lose a deer or wound one, but it happens in all aspects of hunting. We've all seen deer with gunshots that survive or are never found but you wouldn't discredit that caliber or weapon. There's alot of human error that occurs that is over looked because like you said the equipment usually gets blamed first. Ultimately you haveta be confident in what you use and sadly sometimes it takes something bad to change that confidence. Until that happens it's hard to do, so it makes it hard to change people's mind. So we just do circles but makes for a good discussion.
Yes, we all have opinions, but it irks me when people think their opinion is more valid than the opinion of others, it is the very definition of the word opinionated. How did I get sucked into this anyway? LOL! To get back to the original video, if I was gonna try to shoot a steer, I'd probably NOT choose a Rage 3 blade!
Me too. I've been killing deer (and a few bears) with Rocket Steelhead 100's for 20 years. I've had nothing but excellent results with them.
Just in reference to an earlier post about recovery rates being lower with mechanical. I have read 4 studies on the past year or so that spanned years and hundreds of harvests. In every study the mechanical had a higher recovery rate. The lowest margin I remember seeing was 82% vs 85% recovery and the biggest is 82 vs 91. What I gather from this is mechanicals can and usually will do the job better than fixed blades. That being said can they malfunction? Sure. But your probably talking a tiny percentage. At the end of the day it's where you put the arrow and if you do that the razors you decide to put on the end of the arrow rarely matter. Here is one of the studies below. Can't find the others off hand. For what it's worth I don't use or like mechanicals. Not because I don't think they work but because the are expensive and the ones I have used have been one time use. High Deer Recovery Rates for Fixed-Blade and Mechanical Broadheads | Quality Deer Management Association
3 blades are junk IMO, and even with the 2 blade sometimes crap happens, I shot this buck with a 2 blade rage, quartering away, it seemed to skip off and ride up the ribs. I was able to get another arrow into him after he laid down. I've had good luck other than that one but have since switched to killzone.
I have shot the two bladed rage .It didn't deploy and flew kinda bad for me. Always a muzzy man have brought down a lot of deer with them.
Trial, I like and respect you. But this post is funny. It is a BH shooting a deer with a million variables. There is no way to accurately apply a probability calculation to recovery rates.
Well this thread grew very quickly. Just curious did you guys see that the arrow he was using was only 340 grains ?
