Doe Down and Broadhead Review

[Nomad]

Shot this doe out of a ground blind yesterday evening. Nothing to exciting about a doe, but I thought I would add a broadhead review to it. Swhacker 150 grain 3" cut. Excalibur Bulldog 400, 400FPS, range 10 yards.  I have used them before with good results and always saw the small entrance hole and large exit. I did some careful checking with this deer, specifically the lungs. (should have taken a picture). The broadhead went thru the center of the lungs. Where it entered was a small closed hole like the entry(pictured) and where it exited the lung was the large 3" hole. So it opened inside the lung at some point. The deer ran at a dead run for 70 yards and went down in sight.  I would say the head opened a bit late. Still had a good result though, just wondering if it would have made the traveled distance of the deer shorter if there had been a 3 inch cut going into the lung.

Edited September 18, 2020 by Nomad

[BHC]

Congratulations 

[Lunatic]

Hard to believe it did not open wide hitting the hardest point of impact, the outer skin and maybe the ribs. 70 yards is not too ba

[Gobblengrunt]

Nice doe, congrats!  The “small” hole looks big enough for good blood trail alone, the exit hole is devastating 

[not on the rug]

Congrats on the meat!

I sometimes wonder if some mechanicals  actually seem like they open "late" when they hit targets when they're shot out of xbows.  They need resistance in order to open and most compounds are nearly 100fps slower IBO than top of the line xbows.  It only makes sense that they would penetrate a little deeper before they encounter enough resistance to open.  Has anyone ever seen this studied or tested at all?

[tpr1921]

Congratulations.

[Grassmans]

Congrats !!

[Reeltight]

Nap spitfires do the same thing. Small entry hole and huge exit. I think they say they don’t fully open until 3/4” in. 

[MGHunter66]

Congrats, seems weird that it opened partially through shot a doe this morning with reaper pro series and both holes were huge. Left blood like this on all trees for the short 20 yrd run afterwards 

[Nomad]

They (Swhacker) are billed as penetrating closed and then opening inside.

[MGHunter66]

1 minute ago, Nomad said:

They (Swhacker) are billed as penetrating closed and then opening inside.

What makes them open? Or should I say delays the opening

[Buck154]

Congrats 

[Nomad]

I’ll post the video of how they work when I get home

[Cripple Shot]

2 hours ago, not on the rug said:

Congrats on the meat!

I sometimes wonder if some mechanicals  actually seem like they open "late" when they hit targets when they're shot out of xbows.  They need resistance in order to open and most compounds are nearly 100fps slower IBO than top of the line xbows.  It only makes sense that they would penetrate a little deeper before they encounter enough resistance to open.  Has anyone ever seen this studied or tested at all?

Congrats as well...and I'd have to agree on what Rug said above.

[not on the rug]

40 minutes ago, MGHunter66 said:

Congrats, seems weird that it opened partially through shot a doe this morning with reaper pro series and both holes were huge. Left blood like this on all trees for the short 20 yrd run afterwards 

Congrats!

I used to shoot Reaper Razor tips and whitetail specials and those things left huge holes.  I painted the woods many times, just like that