Name your broadhead type

[Buck154]

3 Blade Nap Spittfire 

[allmann]

Grim reaper whitetail specials, but want to try the hybrids.  Got an awesome deal of 6 packs of the whitetail specials from a guy who stopped hunting for $75 so I have enough heads to last me a while.  

[Live to Hunt]

Really do I need to say it 

[NorthNJHunter]

VPA all the way! 3 blade 125 grain vented and non vented. I'm 4 for 4 with the same broadhead!

[TDietz]

I prefer Snuffer 145gr, but they quit making them... so, hopefully my supply lasts, I've used VPA 3 blades, actually killed a couple bull elk with them, but they're kinda small.... still have a supply of Bear Razorheads with bleeders that still kill stuff. 

[JHbowhunter]

Interesting split 55 mech 55 fixed so far. 

[hemlock]

I use muzzy trocar, VPA & spitfire. Those are what I have been using with my bows & crossbows. Bow I prefer fixed blade and crossbow I use either or it's all good. 

[archer36]

I shoot Expanding, Fixed, and Hybrids. They all do the job if you do yours. 

[3Blade]

9 hours ago, Live to Hunt said:

Really do I need to say it 

No vulgar language please

[Hitemnasty]

2 blade Strickland Archery Helix. Single bevel 125’s. Spin going in cuts on the way back out. Highly durable and every deer I’ve shot with them has dropped in sight! 

[Buck154]

10 hours ago, Live to Hunt said:

Really do I need to say it 

Don't say the R.......word!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

[thefirstndsecond]

This is funny.. looking at the poll..

 

i thought it would be fixed, rage, then all other mechanical.. lol

 

But this is really breaking things down further. 

[hammer4reel]

Looks like im the only one shooting a four blade mechanical.

Grim reaper carni four is a pretty slick head.

But I do like their 3 blade whitetail special more due to the larger cut. 

 

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[Devil Horns]

Spitfire 100’s for me and WASP Boss SST 3 blade 100’s for both of my sons.


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[JHbowhunter]

31 minutes ago, thefirstndsecond said:

This is funny.. looking at the poll..

 

i thought it would be fixed, rage, then all other mechanical.. lol

 

But this is really breaking things down further. 

The one thing that stands out - is that the 2 blade mechanical is by far the single most popular "type" out of all the types I came up with. I think I thought of every possible type - I mean I could have further broken down 2 blade into single-bevel, non-bleeders, but I think the poll is effective as is.

So why did the two blade mechanical become over time - the most popular choice?

Heavy Rage and Shwacker advertising/marketing/product placement and endorsements on hunting shows?

Or - have they proven to be more effective for the average hunter than anything else they have tried?

I bet even 10 years ago - the 3 blade fixed would have been the winning category, when Thunderhead and Muzzy probably still dominated the market, but without question the mechanical heads were trending upward rapidly 10 years ago.

Is it that two inch+ blades just seem so damn appealing (like tossing an axe through the animal) - as opposed to the mechanical 3 blades that probably average around 1.5" cut diameter?

I look at it this way -

• 2" blades x 2 equals 4" of total cut, and it's a straight slice...     
• 1.5" blades x 3 gives you 4.5" of total cut and it makes more of a "hole"
• Take two milk jugs filled with water, shoot each mechanical through them near the bottom of jug, and watch the 3 blade drain it much faster.
• with a 2 blade, there is no way to predict what orientation it will be on impact - if you are right on edge of vitals, and the BH hits vertically, you could get gut instead of lung, hit horizontally you will get half gut half double lung (2 inch cut of double lung is lethal)
• With 3 blade, if you are on edge of vitals, you are nearly assured to catch those lungs as opposed to the 2 blade.
• So why aren't the 3 and 4 blade mechanicals more popular than the 2 blade????

Ok so that is a question to debate. Not fixed vs Mech debate (in totality, they are about 50-50 split), not a Rage debate.     Why is the 2 blade mech more popular than the 3 blade mech?

Edited December 20, 2018 by JHbowhunter