Everyone's 2024 Broadhead Results?

[Wilderlife]

I put this video together about the Crafted Archery Aero 1 broadhead. My mate and I ran it from late 2023 to late 2024. Between us I believe we've killed about 80 animals total, at the time of making this video. I'm using a different broadhead for this year so I'm keen to see how they go, and I may put a similar video together at the end of this coming year as well.

 

[Nick Muche]

5 javalina, 2 Coues bucks, 1 whitetail buck, a grizzly bear and a bull caribou. All with Rage Hypodermics or Vortex 2”. One arrow each and short but messy blood trails.

 

[TEmbry]

Shot a coues with a 2” sevr. Black bear with an exact 125 grain fixed. Brown bear, Columbian blacktail, and wild hog all with an evolution Hyde.

Blown away with the blood trail difference after switching to the hybrid designs. I’ll be running sevr hybrids and evolution hydes from now on for all species for the foreseeable future.

 

[ResearchinStuff]

5 javalina, 2 Coues bucks, 1 whitetail buck, a grizzly bear and a bull caribou. All with Rage Hypodermics or Vortex 2”. One arrow each and short but messy blood trails.

Grizzly with a rage hypo? That's impressive.

 

[kcm2]

100 gr Ramcat Hemoshocks on wild hogs. 3 shots, three kills. One quartering away, opened the hole so big the shaft fell out backwards. 50 yard run. The two others were bedded pigs with spines to me, one hit the big bones in the spine and still penetrated through the rib cage at the bottom of the chest, the other did similarly but further forward. Blades were intact in all three. The heads are tough, cut both ways and very sharp.

The elk managed to not get closer than 68 yards and for that, were there for 20-30 seconds before the wind shifted so no data on elk.

 

[Muleyczy]

5 javalina, 2 Coues bucks, 1 whitetail buck, a grizzly bear and a bull caribou. All with Rage Hypodermics or Vortex 2”. One arrow each and short but messy blood trails.

I’ve had good luck as well with Rage Hypodermics.

 

[Muleyczy]

Not a complete pass through but you can see arrow pushing hide on off side using 421grn arrow with 100grn Rage Hypodermic.

 

[huckfin]

My friend and I both put GR Micro Hades 125gr into our elk this season. Both of us found our elk.

 

[PathFinder]

Cow moose with Kayuga Pilot Cuts. First shot at 60 yards, slightly quartering away, went through her heart and exited through the scapula. The arrow zipped through so quickly it made me question whether it went low. She moved to 70 yards and was facing straight away. After maybe 30 seconds she turned enough to shoot again. The second shot went through the bottom of her heart and stopped after hitting the shoulder below the joint and gouging it. She made it maybe 15-20 yards and just under a minute before expiring.

Shots through heart. One is through the bottom.


Entrances in rib cage


Exit through shoulder. It made a clean hole through the scapula. Never found the arrow


End of the wound channel of the second arrow. It stopped and bounced back after hitting the shoulder/leg bone and gouging it.

 

[eddiewiggles]

G5 Megameat, 440 grain arrow, 72lbs and 29.5in DL. Plenty fast enough, especially at 15 yards. Full pass through, stuck in the dirt behind her. Shot was a little farther back than I wanted but she ran maybe 60 yards and piled up.

Buck was shot with same arrow last year, he maybe went 20. Broke the offside shoulder, but broke the broadhead and arrow also.

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[Jaden Bales]

I'm sure the blade opened. Did you examine the wound channel? On pass throughs, when the head grabs grass and stuff upon hitting the ground the blades can snap back closed.

I took some photos of the shot after skinning. I could be wrong because I haven't looked at too many of these shots like most guys who lay whitetails down, but this looked like 2 blades.

 

[fatbacks]

Bull moose with a Swacker. Double lunged and down within 30 yds. Arrow did not pass through but poked out the other side. Not much blood

Blacktail doe. Evolution Hyde. Bad hit too far back but still put her down within 60 yds.

Blacktail buck. Evolution Hyde. Full pass through. Best blood trail I’ve ever seen


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[Sbird2019]

100 grain QAD exodus
485 grain TAW Black eagle rampage arrows
70 lb Mathews phase 4 @ 28.5 in draw

2x impala
Kudu
Sable
Nyala
Gemsbok
Eland

Full pass through on everything (excluding the Nyala and a Sable that got stuck in offside shoulder joint)
A full pass through the thickest part of a big 1600 pound cape eland is what truly stunned me. Passed through and found the arrow 10 yards on the other side

0 tracking required. Everything piled up within 50 yards. I felt a little cheated by these broadheads… I didn’t even get to experience the famous Africa trackers at work

 

[Skerhunter]

The rage NC hypo has been great for turkeys and filled my spring/fall tags with them again this year. Will be comparing to the new iron will next spring (received one after fall season ended).

Used a schwacker 2” to shoot another mature whitetail this year. They do their job, but typically hang up on the far side. I like how they don’t open or rattle in my quiver, so might order more this year. Deer numbers are way down, so no more testing multiple heads in a season.

Proven fixed heads for deer/elk - slick trick, 2 blades - iron will, helix, magnus. Plan to keep using the iron wills/helix heads until I lose them all zero complaints.