Fixed Broadheads for bear, mountain goat, deer, elk, and moose

[AlabamaMountainMan]

Similar to the caliber threads sharing pictures of wounds, game, and descriptions of experiences, please share the same for fixed broadheads.

If available, please share:
- Draw Weight
- Draw Length
- Animal
- Shot distance
- Broadhead
- Penetration
- Arrow
- Any other relevant information

 

[Robobiss]

You should include draw length (or chrono’d hunting arrow speed) to both of these threads as without it the draw weight is halfway irrelevant. A little dude with a 27” draw shooting 70 pounds is shooting lighter (shorter) arrows slower than someone at 60 lbs at 30”.
2” inches of draw length make more of a difference in arrow speed than 10 pounds of draw weight do.

Anyways, I have shot two deer with Magnus stinger two blades (no bleeder). Both died within eyesight, one went 30 yards, the other stumbled less than 10 and fell over. Both broadheads were razor sharp and hardly made any noise at impact. I truly believe the second deer didn’t even realize he was shot.

Draw weight: 78 LBS
Draw length: 30.5”
Animal: whitetail deer x2
Shot distance: less than 20 yards
Broadhead:Magnus stinger 2 blade (no bleeder)
Penetration: through and through and half the arrow buried in the ground on the other side for both.
Arrows: Victory vap SS. TAW of ~530 grains
Actual bow speed: 285 FPS
Shot placement: behind the shoulder for one, completely broadside. Into the shoulder a little on the other, also perfectly broadside.

Not necessarily a “whitetail” setup. I was using elk arrows. They worked though.

 

[mt terry d]

A few I can recall off the top of my head
Martin Cougar magnum
80#
Aluminum arrows 2219 (?)
Either Zwickey 2 blade or Bear razorhead w/o insert (I interchanged these
both as they flew exactly the same)
Speed 225 fps (if I recall correctly)
Arrow/broadhead weight about 3 pounds LOL! Never weighed them,
but the arrows are like broomsticks compared to most nowadays
5 point bull
Shot distance 10 feet
Heart shot, poked through the off side
Distance travelled about 50 yards or about 4 seconds
as he was at full gallop when shot.

Same setup
6 point bull
Shot distance 30 yards
Double lungs
Not a pass through
Distance travelled @ 150 yards

Same again
4 point raghorn bull
35 yards
Double lung
not a pass through
Distance travelled @ 200 yards

Same again
4 point raghorn
30 yards
One lung and liver
Not a pass through
Distance travelled @ 50 yards

 

[AlabamaMountainMan]

You should include draw length (or chrono’d hunting arrow speed) to both of these threads as without it the draw weight is halfway irrelevant. A little dude with a 27” draw shooting 70 pounds is shooting lighter (shorter) arrows slower than someone at 60 lbs at 30”.
2” inches of draw length make more of a difference in arrow speed than 10 pounds of draw weight do.

Anyways, I have shot two deer with Magnus stinger two blades (no bleeder). Both died within eyesight, one went 30 yards, the other stumbled less than 10 and fell over. Both broadheads were razor sharp and hardly made any noise at impact. I truly believe the second deer didn’t even realize he was shot.

Draw weight: 78 LBS
Draw length: 30.5”
Animal: whitetail deer x2
Shot distance: less than 20 yards
Broadhead:Magnus stinger 2 blade (no bleeder)
Penetration: through and through and half the arrow buried in the ground on the other side for both.
Arrows: Victory vap SS. TAW of ~530 grains
Actual bow speed: 285 FPS
Shot placement: behind the shoulder for one, completely broadside. Into the shoulder a little on the other, also perfectly broadside.

Not necessarily a “whitetail” setup. I was using elk arrows. They worked though.

Good idea. I’ve added it to both.

 

[2Stamp]

Here's a few more recent ones with fixed heads.


Buck Antelope
- 70lb draw wt
- 27.5 DL
- shot distance 52yds
- Iron Will 125 solid
- pass through, arrow went another 15 yds.
- GT Pierce, 300, some heavy @ss Ethics insert system, 504 TAW (this was my heavy weight/ High FOC experiment phase)
- spot and stalk. He was quartering away a little. Near as I could tell he started to spin away at the shot so it was a perfect in the crease behind the shoulder on near side, exited in front of off side shoulder, closer to the neck. He sprinted back down hill and died on his feet about 50yds later, skidding into a little ravine. I didn't find blood until about 10 feet before he hit the ground.


Doe Antelope
- 45lb draw wt
- 27.25 DL
- shot distance 7yds
- Day Six wide, 125gr
- pass through, found the arrow about 12 yds further.
- Easton Axis 400, 75gr insert, 25 gr collar, 495 TAW
- Shot was out of a ground blind. She was so close I had to hover up off the stool because I thought I would put the arrow through the side of the blind. The arrow did hit her higher than I wanted, but centerpunched the onside rib. She ran probably 180yds, the opposite direction I initially thought she went (due to limited visibility out of the blind). Once I found her and back tracked her route, I didn't find blood in the first 120yds. This was because of the high shot.


Mule deer
- 70lb draw wt
- 27.5 DL
- shot distance 30yds
- Wac Em 100gr
- Stopped on the off side, Likely by a rib.
- Easton FMJ, 400, factory insert. Don't even remember total weight. But this shot and these arrows are what got me looking into arrow builds more critically, learning I was under-spined, and wanting "more" out of my arrow.

- The shot was a little quartering to. When the arrow hit he spun and went back down the trail he'd walked up. I could see atleast a 1/3 of my arrow still sticking out the on side. I found blood within about 10-15 feet, and stopped. I could here him coughing down in the oak below me, which lasted for about half an hour. I gave him a full hour before going down. When I walked up on him there were two holes in him. I never found the arrow as I believe in his dash back down the trail the brush pushed it the rest of the way through and I never found it. I caught the back edge of the offside lung. In both pictures the entrance hole is visible.

 

[Eastonsgrandpa]

Following this one.

 

[nighthawkf-117]

Here is a doe I harvested this past season.

Draw Weight - 70lb
Draw Length - 28.5”
Animal - Wisconsin White Tail Doe
Shot distance - About 42 yards, slightly downhill
Broadhead - Iron Will S100
Penetration - Pass through
Arrow - Victory RIP 300 Spine, Iron Will SS Hit Insert, Iron Will Titanium Collar, 283 fps on a Garmin

I have been very happy with the performance of the Iron Wills. I like to sharpen my broad heads to a high polish on the edges and they hold this edge very nice. This shot was from about 25’ up in a saddle and she was pretty much broadside. Arrow passed between the ribs, through the heart, and then center punched a rib on the opposite side, passed through and buried itself about 18” into the dirt. Deer went about 50 yards and tipped over. Upon inspecting the arrow I saw no noticeable damage or dulling at all. I washed the arrow and broadhead, added some oil, then right back in the quiver.

 

[NDHUNTER24]

Whitetail
60lb draw
33 yards
Quartering. Made a poor shot, and shot low but it turned out.
QAD exodus broadhead.
Pass through.

Sent from my SM-S901U using Tapatalk