Broadhead Damage 3 different pig tests

You're speakin French now? 😂 This is such good info to noodle around in my head. Like you said, I have not paid as much attention to this as I should!

Them teeth are beautiful partner. How much did the cost?

That 1 company is VPA. Premium price then I have to spend an hour on each head. Got me once, never again.

If we have gotten to the point now that we’re concerned about ground damage to the broadhead, or side flexing due to the running of the animals, that’s a great place to be.

Yes, heads used in real hunts have their problems after they completely penetrate an animal but these shots still provide more real info than gel. Maybe the best testing would include some type of meat target like Paul Harrell uses. A layer of hide, a chink of meat, some pork ribs, oranges or something similar for lungs and then a repeat of the same for the offside. Followthis up with fleece like he doesor maybe gel. Youcould always replace theribs on 1 sidewith a scapula as long as it was fresh and you could shoot the target from various angles to represent the shots we take while hunting.

shot my first stick bow deer with a grizlystik single bevel, frontal shot, she carried it 15 yard and pulled out in the brush. broadhead took me 10 mins to sharpen. Shot a buck with the same broadhead 2 weeks later and it skipped off a rock after and now that broadhead is retired.

That's because you don't know what your talking about😅😂 just a bass fisherman who shoots arrows what would you know🤣😂🤫🔥🤙🏽

Troy. I’m shooting a 360 grain arrow setup (twizzler)and want to use the new Magnus single bevel. I’m sure Im going to have to change arrows but not sure where to start. I’m using Easton 6.5 26 1/4 long 400 spine. Bow- 61 lb 27” draw…..Help

Broadhead integrity, sharpness and arrow flight have become an obsession with me. Thanks. LOL!! I should get that workbench sharpener, but I'm still using the broadhead guides and sharpening by hand. I will at some point but I got stupid priorities like buying a new washer/dryer I need to deal with. 🤷🏼‍♂️🤣

I was thinking about one edge of a single bevel being worse for the wear than the other... Might be due the direction of the rotation... Need to check if it is always or mostly one side or the other and which direction it is beveled for.

I sent you pics and the story about the doe I shot this year; and the inside flat of her scap was all chewed up. Broad head was fine though

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Used RF 200gr bh last year on a whitetail, went right thru most of the deer as if it was not there...70 lbs, 648gr arrow. Stuck in the ground right where I was aiming. Adirondack soil is know for its lack of organic material and abundance of rock. Folded about 3/16 of the tip right over. Rocks happen and I have a practice head.

I think the reason one side is way duller than another after burying in the ground is that
The force will be on the side that hits first
a vector of force
So it’s not even either side of the broad head
One side will have more force the other is almost in a void of dirt as it moves sideways
Just a thought

Mr Fairy, at what point do you throw away a broadhead? If you can get it razor sharp again, but a few chunks missing, things like that, what point is not shootable

The wild beyond the target animal isn't forgiving on broadhead edges, fact.
Start off with high quality broadheads and the chance they'll survive passthroughs is higher.

I can't wait to see the revamped RF 200 single beveles!

So thats what the Uline catalog is for....

I Love the fact almost 75,000 sub to your channel that means all those people actually give a damn about this stuff because every bow hunter in the world could learn something from this channel yet marketing and hype teaches them not to listen to the most important parts of bowhunting! Yet there’s an army who does! Thanks Troy!

Really looking forward to the new RF 200's becoming available. My Toughheads 125 are dialed. At 20, 200's impact the same and drop 2.5 at 40. Apollo 300's RULE!

Can a broadhead be TOO TOUGH? My answer would be yes, if you cannot adequately sharpen it. Extremely tough broadheads can be extremely tough to sharpen and some can not reach adequate sharpness with the average traditional sharpening method of a stone or file. I prefer carbon steel over stainless regarding sharpening, because carbon is much easier to achieve a lethal edge. Stainless is a tougher steel, but can be extremely frustrating to get to the same level of sharpness as a carbon without a lot of extra effort and special sharpening tools and techniques. Having said that, stainless can be made adequately sharp, but my level of sharpening skills just takes a carbon edge to a much higher level of terrifying with much less time, effort and specialized sharpening equipment. I have been known to cheat using an electric grinder.

As always... very entertaining, incredibly valid, thought provoking REAL CONTENT, Troy. Thank you for all you do for the bowhunting community, my friend... even when you fall under scrutiny from all the naysayers who regurgitate the same smooth-brain "logic"... you just keep it all about sharing data and facts.

95% of the bowhunting community needs more discussions like this. We're so inundated with anecdotal paid endorsements these days. It's all about the dollar and who's paying more. Thank you for keeping it real and focusing on sharing what we should all be interested in...

Carrying $15,000 dollars worth of gear in your truck doesn't put an elk in the freezer. The arrowhead does.

Your on camera speaking has greatly improved over the last year or so. Well done!

Just keep doing what you are doing another very good video

All this nonsense is pointless. It makes no sense. Who gives a damn if a broadhead gets dull after a shot. I don't care if it passes through the animal and completely flys apart, breaks apart, and completely destroyed. Some of these topics and " testing" are senseless and a waste of time " my broadhead passed through an animal and stick in the sand, and dirt and rocks , and when I pulled it out and cleaned it off , it was duller than before the shot. This head isn't any good and I need to find one better, because it might not kill deader than the next head" ( talking this while kneeling beside a dead animal with a gaping hole through both sides and 3 gallons of blood around it) . See how damn stupid that sounds?some people and topics talked about just get dumber the more they talk

The last couple minutes of the video make the most sense to me. I don't care what happens to my arrow after exiting the critter. I care about what happens at impact and what happens on the trip through the animal. Anything after the animal is irrelevant. I can't wait to see the test videos. I would like to see you use different shaped broadheads also so that we can see which shape is more effective at impact.

When are we getting the magnus single bevel buzzcut?

If your taking time for the cadaver-broadhead damage study or really, any "cadaver lab" studies...

if you can set up a couple high speed cameras (top and side views perpendicular to arrow flight) and corresponding "inch tape" boards you can increase your study "outputs" to also provide data on impact to exit deceleration, changes in angle, and arrow roll/position impact shifting for the KE-Momentum studys. (a few more imputs for many more outputs)

Keep up the great research.

And for everyone like me who needs reminders, NOW is the time to start testing, building, and improving for the fall.

Happy Hunting Dusters!

I think that the reason you see more dulling on one side vs the other is because you have a primary contact edge and a secondary contact edge.
Think of it like snow shoeing, the guy that cuts the first tracks makes it exponentially easier for the next guy. The next being the other edge. Obviously this is specific to single bevel, as secondary rotation follows first rotation/ S cuts. The primary eats the worst of it (edge chatter/ damage) and the secondary slides on easy street.

I am one of the guys that emailed you back in November about my broadhead being all chewed up and I know for a fact it didn’t hit the dirt cause the last 3 inches of the arrow was still in the deer and the arrow was 10 yards down the trail where the deer ran. I’m not sure what happened. Or why. I know I hit the heavy part of the scapula and potentially the off side humorous. But it definitely made me think. I wish I could test them on animals here in my state other than a handful of deer I can shoot during season.. shooting the tuffhead evolution 2. Definitely considering the magnus or the ranch fairy head. Just hate wasting money to get the same results of a chewed up broadhead on the other side of my animal… Thanks for the video Troy!

Another great video! Thanks

if I'm looking for a 75-80 pound capable left handed bow to set up following your wisdom what would you recommend? I'm not a gear head so it doesnt need to be the latest greatest fancy thing. Just a bow that if i find one used will hold up to time. I'm currently shooting a Bear Game Over, at 74 pounds and with some string twist I've been told I can get it close to78 but from what I understand this is not wise? Been killing deer for twenty years with a bow and have decided after watching everything you have ever put out some several times that id like to start doing it right. Any advice is welcome, I'm up in the blue ridge mountains in North Carolina.

I'm amazed that people need to be told that dirt dulls blades 😂😂😂

Thank you for your thoughts, it means alot that you took the time. Back in the day we were actually doing it right with the Golden Eagle bows when they were the new hot thing with our giant "telephone" pole aluminum arrows that we got snikered at for.....they were actually very close to high FOC and were indeed very stable when tuned right. lol...If you could keep them straight. I'll likely be ordering arrows and a tuning kit from you this summer some time.

I would love to know what my last two broadheads looked like. Unfortunately they were shots from a tree, and the deer were on the downside of a hill annnnd they’re gone now. lol

One shot leads to a test. Then the next shot leads to a different test. Hmmmm good thing you run a channel committed to testing for the rest of us dummies.

Ranch, thanks for all the info. I’ve gone through the testing and decided to land on the 150gn head for this year for whitetail with a 102gn insert as well. I’m going to run the iron will single bevel wide and was wondering if you’ve had any experiences yet with the iron will wides and how they performed for you. Best of luck on the trail of knowledge. Thanks again for all of the great information

For me, this makes a lot of sense. I remembered back to a deer I didn't recover and couldn't for the life of me figure out why. I put a good center mass hit quartering away with a 3-blade "M" broadhead on XX75 shafts with a complete passthrough. Trailed it for 3/4 mile and it was found by the neighbor's dog in the spring another 1/2 mile away after crossing a CRP field. Then I was watching one of your videos and you said something to the effect of the thin blades just don't hold up. I remember every single one of the "M" blades being trashed over the years. This last year I switched to Grizzlystick 175gr and noticed something completely different. On a miss, I buried one in a creek bottom and to my surprise wasn't completely beat to hell. The next one connected on a fairly high downward angle quartering away shot that hit the heavier part of the ribs. I checked both broadheads when I got home and to my surprise cut through paper with only a couple hangups and both were able to be brought back to sharp quickly. That made me realize better blades are where it's at. It will be interesting to see what happens with the testing.

STOP

STOP

STOP steering our new young hunters off in the WRONG direction

STOP promoting bad low hits on animals

STOP the deer torture

STOP making people hit the branches in the trees because they have to aim 3.5 feet above the animal

STOP making people shoot under the animal because the were off on their yardage calculations by THREE YARDS....JUST STOP>>>STOP>>>STOP>>>

why are you wearing a WRAY shirt....promoting democratic domestic terrorism...REALLY????

The reason the broadhead is duller on one side after hitting the ground is because it did NOT hit the ground at 90 deg.

Ranch fairy heads are the best I’ve ever shot. Killed 2 this past season with my biggest buck to date and they both didn’t go 50 yards. Got the worksharp jig and it’s crazy how sharp you can get them. Love the videos and the broadheads!!

My hypothesis for the one dull side on the two blades is that since the arrows rotate as they fly, the first edge that touches the ground acts like a keel of the ship and the friction with the ground will keep the opposite edge mostly off the ground, possibly slowing down the rotational momentum during skips as well. The only way to be sure is to shoot broadheads on the ground (through something) with a slow motion camera to simulate the slowdown after an animal. Shooting it directly off the bow to the ground will probably have too much forward momentum.

What steel are you using for your broadheads?