Bow and Broadheads for Elk

[KyleR1985]

50-100gr insert or half out, arrows cut as short as you can for your bow, properly spined or one spine stiffer, squared on both ends, 100-125gr head, properly tuned bow that shoots broadheads and field points to same POI further than you can shoot.

Surgical sharp blades - either than come that way or that you sharpen that way.

Slight preference on small fixed heads.

If you build arrows properly and tune your bow properly, and your blades are properly sharpened, they’re all gonna work.

My preference for small fixed heads is the reduction of “ass on fire” running I tend to get compared to wide cut mechanicals. And one less failure point.

More weight up front will ease in tuning, and result in a significant increase in penetration. Mirroring this - less weight on back of arrows will accomplish the same thing - I avoid lighted nocks, bushings, small of a wrap as possible, etc.

I shoot 75lb 30” draw 500-525gr arrows, exodus heads usually, with 100gr half outs.

 

[Beendare]

Thoughts on the QAD line? I saw your comment on the Thunderheads, they quite? I have some Muzzy 125gr from back in the ealry 90's. Smoked a 300lb wild boar here in the south. After I went with lighter poundage I couldn't get them to fly right. Also there were on some giant aluminium diameter arrows before carbons were in.

Lots of guys like that QAD head....short/small so it will be easy to tune though the principles of getting them perfectly straight/concentric are the same.
Lots of choices of heads work....inc mech heads.....the key is understanding the plusses and mines of each design. Factors include; Matching them to your setup......arrow weight....assembly....tuning and testing [a must with any head] shot angles and their penetration potential.....and what happens in the case of a bad shot. With the less penetrating designs, you want to adjust your shots to avoid shoulder and bone.

One example of that last factor;
A big wide mech head might be better on a gut shot.....but that same head gets terrible penetration if it catches bone. Tradeoffs. Everyone has their priorities. I have a buddy that killed a big bull as it turned- shot it in the spine and the 2 blade fixed head penetrated through the vertebrae to paralyze the bull so he could get a followup. If he had been using a wide chisel point or mech head....he would have lost that bull.