broadhead impact damage?

[ChrisS]

I was out yesterday scouting a few new areas and looking for sheds. As I was walking along, I spotted an arrow sticking up out of the ground. It looked like it had been shot at a pretty flat trajectory (point embedded in the ground and the nock side probably only 5-6 inches off the ground. I was thinking ground blind maybe. Anyway, I pulled it out of the ground and was a little surprised to see the damage to the broadhead. I don't use mechanicals, but what could have caused this kind of bend? I was thinking if it had hit a rock it would have bounced or glanced off. Weird.

These are just whitetail woods...

 

[go4thegusto]

Looks like a rock or direct bone hit. Hence why rock solid broadheads are important. Again....we don't select broadheads for the perfect hit, we buy them when things go wrong.

 

[Desk Jockey]

Crazy bend. Gotta be a rock.

I am relatively new to bow hunting. I am curious how many reuse their broad heads after a miss or hit even.

I have saved all my hits as momentos. It's only 5 so far so not a big loss. 3 are damaged too badly to use - 2 busted up broad heads and a snapped arrow. 1 had enough nicks on the blades after passing through and getting stuck in the ground that I d have to work it with a file or replace the blades. I had one pass through and hit soft dirt. It could be washed and reused but I want to save it.

 

[dangerousD]

Some of my mechanicals I will reuse for turkeys if they aren't damaged and some fixed heads I will change blades or resharpen, depending on the model.

 

[OR Archer]

Considering there is no damage to the front blades makes me question if that was from a hard impact at all. Also the fact it's at an almost perfect 90' bend. Something just doesn't add up there.

 

[ChrisS]

Considering there is no damage to the front blades makes me question if that was from a hard impact at all. Also the fact it's at an almost perfect 90' bend. Something just doesn't add up there.

That's why I found it so strange. How I found the arrow, it looked like it had been shot, missed, and impacted the ground. I pulled it out and the bend surprised me. If it had been a direct bone hit, it wouldn't have been stuck in the ground. If it had hit a rock, then like you, I would assume that cutting tip would have been dented or damaged.

Bigfoot maybe.

 

[OR Archer]

Yep. Squatch

 

[Jeff Martin]

it looks like it was heated and bent

 

[Desk Jockey]

Squatch makes fire? Uses arrows.

Isnot this how planet of the apes begins?

 

[Brendan]

Here's my guess. Got shot into a tree, and then bent trying to pry it out. Tree wasn't hard enough to damage the front blades. Whoever did it just ditched the arrow in the woods worrying about a cracked shaft.

 

[BFM]

I bend all my heads like that so I can shoot around corners.