Broadhead thoughts
Nov 30, 2014 15:46:10 GMT -5
Post by sw on Nov 30, 2014 15:46:10 GMT -5
I'm a scientist by nature and training. Very left brained! My 10 years active in the USAF allowed me to pursue ballistics and terminal effects (taught these to fellow F111 pilots). I was fortunate enough to get to be in the first F-111 Fighter Weapons School class(Top Gun School). So I thrive on this stuff. I taught my son to fly: he's now a crop duster pilot. The BC of what he drops form an AT 802 is very close to ZERO.
Arrows steer from the front and back. Not quite, they stabilize in the back but steer from wind from the front. Tony Boyer taught me to practice "in the wind", lots of wind! Take a xbow, sight it in from 20-60, or better yet, 100 yds(HHA Optimizer). Practice shooting with same weight field point and indexed fixed Broadheads in low to no wind conditions. The groups will almost always be larger with the broadheads. Then substitute very low profile Expandible broafheads for the fixed. FOCs, Schackers, Rage 2-blade(don't like these terminally), etc. Groups should get closer to field points. However, some fixed broadheads (the Excal 150g, Muzzy, STs,etc) may equal the field points.
Then go shoot in the wind: head, quartering, side and shoot to your max range. Shoot in 10-20mph wind. The Expandibles look pretty good now. They don't steer like the fixed do. I've found quite a bit of steering by some expandibles such as one of my favorites:Spitfires. Very little steering by FOCs or Schackers .
So, I'm convinced the expandibles hold the edge in inflight characteristics, especially in the wind.
Now, face it, we don't always make perfect hits or have perfect chances to make perfect hits. We all can benefit from some forgiveness. I assure you, a 1 3/4" cut 3-blade expandible, or 3-4 blade 2" cut (Rocket), or 1 3/4-2 /1/4" cut Schacker, or 3" blade cut by an FOC give a lot of forgiveness. So what we have with expandables is a better inflight situation and much better terminal effect. Xbows almost always have more than adequate energy. Most compound vbows do also.
Failure problems : I've had 2 blades break in appx 100+ deer shot with Expandables. Both times, the deer went down in its tracks. Kind of like the person who complains about a bullet failing terminally because it didn't passthru like a Barnes commercial where it looks like a perfectly expanded flower. However, the deer was always lying dead where hit. I've never had an expandable failure except a first year, 2-blade Spitfire. Don't like Rages! I've spent hours tracking my color blind son's deer hit with Rages. He uses FOCs now.
So, in summary, a low profiled, expandable with large cut has both inflight and terminal advantages to fixed broadheads. This isn't conjecture; rather, a life time of experience shooting both fixed and expandable broadheads.
Arrows steer from the front and back. Not quite, they stabilize in the back but steer from wind from the front. Tony Boyer taught me to practice "in the wind", lots of wind! Take a xbow, sight it in from 20-60, or better yet, 100 yds(HHA Optimizer). Practice shooting with same weight field point and indexed fixed Broadheads in low to no wind conditions. The groups will almost always be larger with the broadheads. Then substitute very low profile Expandible broafheads for the fixed. FOCs, Schackers, Rage 2-blade(don't like these terminally), etc. Groups should get closer to field points. However, some fixed broadheads (the Excal 150g, Muzzy, STs,etc) may equal the field points.
Then go shoot in the wind: head, quartering, side and shoot to your max range. Shoot in 10-20mph wind. The Expandibles look pretty good now. They don't steer like the fixed do. I've found quite a bit of steering by some expandibles such as one of my favorites:Spitfires. Very little steering by FOCs or Schackers .
So, I'm convinced the expandibles hold the edge in inflight characteristics, especially in the wind.
Now, face it, we don't always make perfect hits or have perfect chances to make perfect hits. We all can benefit from some forgiveness. I assure you, a 1 3/4" cut 3-blade expandible, or 3-4 blade 2" cut (Rocket), or 1 3/4-2 /1/4" cut Schacker, or 3" blade cut by an FOC give a lot of forgiveness. So what we have with expandables is a better inflight situation and much better terminal effect. Xbows almost always have more than adequate energy. Most compound vbows do also.
Failure problems : I've had 2 blades break in appx 100+ deer shot with Expandables. Both times, the deer went down in its tracks. Kind of like the person who complains about a bullet failing terminally because it didn't passthru like a Barnes commercial where it looks like a perfectly expanded flower. However, the deer was always lying dead where hit. I've never had an expandable failure except a first year, 2-blade Spitfire. Don't like Rages! I've spent hours tracking my color blind son's deer hit with Rages. He uses FOCs now.
So, in summary, a low profiled, expandable with large cut has both inflight and terminal advantages to fixed broadheads. This isn't conjecture; rather, a life time of experience shooting both fixed and expandable broadheads.
