bow hunting broadhead question..............

[bob1961]

i know this is a muzzleloading forum but i know some of us shoot bows for bowhunting and i'm thinking of changing my broadheads from bear razorheads 125 gr to muzzy's 100 4 blade and would like some input and some pics of the wound channel....i've been shooting bears heads since 82 and it's getting a little tiresome keeping them sharpened....my new setup this spring will be a reflex caribou since i only shoot with one pin at 20 yds and fingers..................bob

 

[Stumpkiller]

I use glue-on RibTek 125S skeleton-ferrule double-edged heads. They are a variation on the original Ben Pearson heads of the early 50's.

These hold up to repeated shots at stumps, ground impacts while hunting small game, sharpen quickly with a file and split bone. I like the cut-on-impact with no-moving-parts school of broadhead technology.

The wound channel looks like you ran them through with a broadsword. (like the Bears without the bleeder-blades). I shoot a 31", 600 gr arrow at about 180 fps and it goes right-on through.

In real-estate the key is location, location, location. In broadheads the key is penetration, penetration, penetration.

 

[roundball]

Bear was the only game in town decades ago, but Muzzy really revolutionized hunting archery with their broadhead design, primarily the design of the tip...I've killed 26 deer with Muzzy 115grn 4 blade razorheads...best broadhead design invented to date...all you have to do is look at all the copycats since Muzzy introduced it.

Up until my heart surgery when my sternum was cut open, I bowhunted with Muzzy 115's on Easton 2413 aluminum with 70Lb draw weight, got complete pass throughs on every deer except a couple, including shoulder bones, ribs, etc...when I'd lift the body to drag or load it, the exit hole would drain like you'd pulled the drain plug on an oil pan.

Then just unscrew the broadhead, discard the inserts, clean it and install new razor inserts, mount it on a new shaft.

I miss it a lot...nothing like the rush of having a buck 15yds away and 10 feet down...so close you can see the nose whiskers...not even a flintlock gets the heart pumping like that did!

 

[Stumpkiller]

...best broadhead design invented to date...

I dare you to post that on[url] Stickbow.com[/url] :crackup:

You think we get going here. You'll get 700 guys telling you any broadhead with that rhomboid Muzzy tip indicates the owner is inbred and irresponsible, and 700 others telling you multiple blades are less effective than double-edged heads. Another 700 that will prove a head has to be file sharpened to retain an edge after glancing bone, and at least 500 responses saying how (insert your head choice here) cost them a (deer, moose, pterodactyl, whatever you hunt) and they'll never use them again.

Ain't no broadhead that's the best design yet. But there are a few that are good for certain applications. Muzzy is one of the better of the puncture vs. cut style tip. If you push them hard enough they work well. They got some bad press when folks with 45 lb bows couldn't get them through deer. Muzzy's are rugged as far as replaceable blade heads go. :winking:

Broadheads don't get copied because they work well; they get copied because they SELL well and can be patented. There are some 2,500 different designs that have been produced in the U.S. The inventors of some should have been shot with their own designs - I'm pretty sure it wouldn't have killed them quickly.

(I'm a former member of A.B.C.C. - American Broadhead Collectors Club)

. . . revolutionized hunting archery . . .

I hate it when someone tries to "revoltionize" a traditional pursuit. The grocery store revolutionized hunting, but it's not my bag . . . paper or plastic. Maybe we can get all this in-the-woods nonsence out of the way when someone comes up with a revolutionary process to sell freeze-dried deer at a drive-up window.

 

[roundball]

::
"...revolutionized archery hunting..."
I actually meant 'revolutionized broadhead design'.

That specialized tip makes for an incredibly strong penetrating point and really clamps the slots & inserts together like a solid object...one season I reused the same individual Muzzy head for all my tags, changing the inserts after every deer, and only touching up the edges of the triangle point with a few passes on a fine[url] wetstone...in[/url] the next few years, there must have been a dozen companies marketing their variations of the same design...never understood how they could do that from a patent point of view...I do miss it, and I'm no longer afraid my sternum would pull apart, but I've gotten so heavy into Flintlocks now that I won't be going back to bowhunting