Well the Montec fans will trash me but here goes; I've seen multiple problems with these heads on elk...all related to how easily they dull. My elk hunting buddy used to use them and dull or broken was the norm. I have a pic on my other computer of an arrow with Montec that fell out of a deer in KS....dull blades and the hunter whom I talked to later lost the deer.
Easy to just toss it off to 'shot placement'...but shouldn't a BH stay sharp through an animal? Good shot placement with a head that dulls easy can still spell a lost animal. There are those that will claim, "thats a dead animal even with a dull head due to shot placement"....but if you don't find it as it goes so far....what good is it?
IMO, its a junk head. Now their carbon steel version should be better as its much better steel.
Not gonna trash ya, but definitely going to disagree with this, based only on my experience on a couple dozen animals, the blades on mine are still sharp. Last night I was refletching arrows and came across the one that took my bull last year. I didn't even sharpen it, as it was still like brand new.
These are the standard ones, not even the carbon. I was too cheap to pay the extra for carbon lol
On my cow elk, she was 82 yards, went thru both lungs, 2 ribs, and it had a small nick. And I am not sure that wasn't from something it hit after the pass thru.
I shot thru a buck at 71 yards and buried the arrow in the hill behind him, and it was messed up. But here in Utah it is super rocky. I expected that.
2 spikes at under 50, , BH's stll being used and in my quiver.
I used some right before the hunt began last year, and shot them each about 100 times for final practice. They did get dull after that, but I would expect any broad head to do that.
I will keep an eye on them for sure, but so far I have had a great experience with them. Nothing flies as true out of my bow, and it is sending arrows very fast down range.