Josh Bowmar Shooting Sevr Through Cape Buffalo

[Ezratenney]

Just curious if anyone else remembers the video of Josh Bowmar shooting a Cape Buffalo with his SEVR 1.5, after it was already dead ,to test penetration! If I remember right, it did exceptionally well. Guessing he deleted it after starting BEAST? Would love to see it again though!

 

[Coveyleader]

I don't remember seeing that.

In saying that, I've been on two elk trails with them with less than stellar endings. On paper they look great, but for me, there are better expendables. It makes no sense to me at all to have a blade swivel, retract, whatever the term they use. There isn't an animal in NA that has ribs that scare me with even moderate bows. I hit a rib, so what? My expandable should smash through them, not pivot around them.

 

[Blockcaver]

Wasn't impressed with the 1.5" Ulmer Edge, the predecessor of the Sevr 1.5". Accuracy was great, strength fine, you could lock them closed for practice too. But the blades were not very sharp (single bevel then) and blood trails were mediocre in my experience over a couple years of use on bears including a grizzly, deer, sheep and elk.

 

[Billy Goat]

I remember a video he did that got anyone with a prescribed fire license scared. It's hard enough to do maintenance burns as it is, then some dumbass is supposedly doing one, and uses a leaf blower to push it into his brand new truck and torch it.

Likely just collected insurance, and made it harder on the rest of us that actually do habitat work.

Heard something like another burn jumped fire break and got a neighbor's cabin....




If he never got another view on social media it would suit me just fine.


Everything i stated is just hearsay tho, owners of this site shouldn't be liable for what some random redneck remembers of events that might or might not have happened.

 

[plebe]

Ashby foundation did some testing with the SEVR 1.5. There’s no video so far as I know, but if you read it’s probably better than Bowmar’s clickbait. Not that the Ashby foundation doesn’t have their own biases, but it’s not intentionally utter rubbish.

 

[Smada962]

Ashby foundation did some testing with the SEVR 1.5. There’s no video so far as I know, but if you read it’s probably better than Bowmar’s clickbait. Not that the Ashby foundation doesn’t have their own biases, but it’s not intentionally utter rubbish.

I’m not a Bowmar fan at all but I’d trust him over Ashby. They’ve proven themselves to be an even bigger joke IMO than Bowmar.

I think the Lusk review is the most unbiased, and the Sevr’s did exceptionally well.

 

[HairyScandinavian]

I don't remember seeing that.

In saying that, I've been on two elk trails with them with less than stellar endings. On paper they look great, but for me, there are better expendables. It makes no sense to me at all to have a blade swivel, retract, whatever the term they use. There isn't an animal in NA that has ribs that scare me with even moderate bows. I hit a rib, so what? My expandable should smash through them, not pivot around them.

This is a Rage Trypan that broke off one blade and bent the other going through entrance run of a big Nilgai bull. Pencil hole through the rest and pencil hole exit..900+ yard tracking job.

 

[plebe]

I’m not a Bowmar fan at all but I’d trust him over Ashby. They’ve proven themselves to be an even bigger joke IMO than Bowmar.

I think the Lusk review is the most unbiased, and the Sevr’s did exceptionally well.

I don’t see the Ashby report on the SEVR broadhead as particularly self serving. It has their slant, but on the whole, well, here’s some reporting from them:

3.
100 Grain Sevr Titanium 1.5" 2 Blade, Black Eagle 250 spine shaft, 610 grains
total weight. All shots made with the 71# Hoyt. Impact velocity 250 fps, Impact
Momentum 0.67 slug tt/sec.
3.a.
Second round on Black Eagle 150 spine shafts 900 grains total weight. All
shots made with the 82# Hoyt. Impact Velocity 220 fps, Impact Momentum 0.87
slug/ft sec.
All three Sevr Titanium heads survived the structural integrity portion of this testing. At
610 grains two were shot into soft tissue achieving 18.5" and 19.5" of penetration, with
one rib impact achieving 7" of penetration. There was no skip angle exhibited on the
arrows tested or any redirection. This head is the first mechanical head not to fail the
structural integrity portion of this test, so we decided to conduct an impromptu test with a
heavier arrow. At 900 grains and all rib impacts, penetration achieved was 16", 20", and
17". Pre-shot sharpness was an average of 433 grams of pressure while the post-shot
sharpness on the blades averaged 671grams of pressure. The MA of this head is 1.25:1.
ABF Comments: Congratulations to Sevr for achieving the milestone as the first
mechanical not to be a total failure in our testing. Note the post sharpness is after two
shots with each head into the Cape Buffalo using two different arrow weights. While it is
difficult to achieve the sharpness we desire with Titanium, the blades retained what edge
they had exceptionally well. Pros to this head were surviving the structural integrity portion
of the test. We would like to see an improvement in the sharpness, if possible with
Titanium, and also see a heavier head made, i.e., 200 grains for improvements in overall
FOC. As this was the first mechanical to not structurally fail, the Sevr was the
surprise of the testing, and would clearly be chosen over many in this test. While
we do not recommend mechanical heads, if pre-shot blade sharpness can be
increased to the minimum acceptable level for hunting we may have one to point
to for those that feel the need to shoot a mechanical.
Questions arising out of this testing for further research: We would like to test this
head further for skip angles, along with other variations of Sevr broadheads stateside.

 

[Outdoorjoe318]

Have extensive experience with Sevrs, both shooting them and tracking game with them. Have been on over 35 recoveries shot with sevrs(and have the receipts to prove it), and can say that they unequivocally leave sub par blood trails. Of all those animals, only one was found based on blood on the ground. Now, many didnt make it out of sight, but of the ones that did, many went far and very very few seemed to put much blood on the ground. Would highly recommend lookin elsewhere, smaller sharper fixed blades have proven much better with blood trails.

 

[plebe]

Have extensive experience with Sevrs, both shooting them and tracking game with them. Have been on over 35 recoveries shot with sevrs(and have the receipts to prove it), and can say that they unequivocally leave sub par blood trails. Of all those animals, only one was found based on blood on the ground. Now, many didnt make it out of sight, but of the ones that did, many went far and very very few seemed to put much blood on the ground. Would highly recommend lookin elsewhere, smaller sharper fixed blades have proven much better with blood trails.

What kind of game?

I shot a whitetail buck with one and there was tons of blood. Sample set of 1. Shot was not-marginal.

Are you not seeing blood trails with good shot placement?

 

[Outdoorjoe318]

What kind of game?

I shot a whitetail buck with one and there was tons of blood. Sample set of 1. Shot was not-marginal.

Are you not seeing blood trails with good shot placement?



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Majority of these were deer that didnt make it out if the food plot they were in. Im opining on well placed shots, but of course ive seen several gut shots as well with nothing on the ground. A few good blood trails but nothing like what you show here. Ive seen big entry and exits as well with little blood coming out, and have heard similar reports from others.

 

[plebe]

Majority of these were deer that didnt make it out if the food plot they were in. Im opining on well placed shots, but of course ive seen several gut shots as well with nothing on the ground. A few good blood trails but nothing like what you show here. Ive seen big entry and exits as well with little blood coming out, and have heard similar reports from others.

Interesting. I’ve taken a bunch of archery whitetails with the original Rage broadheads and had several fall over where they stood and good blood trails on every one that didn’t. Had results like that with original Grimm Reapers too. Used all of them up and have been trying different stuff for deer. Thought the results I had from the 1.5 SEVR were promising. But don’t know anyone else personally using them, so I don’t have a data set on them. Always good to bend an ear to what others are experiencing, thanks for sharing.

 

[Outdoorjoe318]

Interesting. I’ve taken a bunch of archery whitetails with the original Rage broadheads and had several fall over where they stood and good blood trails on every one that didn’t. Had results like that with original Grimm Reapers too. Used all of them up and have been trying different stuff for deer. Thought the results I had from the 1.5 SEVR were promising. But don’t know anyone else personally using them, so I don’t have a data set on them. Always good to bend an ear to what others are experiencing, thanks for sharing.

Have had good luck with rage if they stay shut but they definitely arent the most robust. Grim reaper failed me and didnt open, luckily a good shot so I recovered it to see. See pics below.