Titanium Broadheads

[Brandon Pattison]

http://www.alaskabowhunting.com/Ashby-Single-Bevel-Broadheads-P147.aspx
http://www.vparchery.com/vpa_3_blade_broadheads.php

Somebody needs to make these in titanium for less weight and at a decent price.

 

[Jtelarkin08]

The vpa comes in a 100 grain and aren't expensive??

 

[SDHNTR]

titanium and decent price are mutually exclusive.

Why do you want lighter than 85, or 100 grains?

 

[Brandon Pattison]

Long heads

 

[SDHNTR]

I hear ya, but are you really having penetration issues? I've killed dozens of critters with a compact VPA 125 and have not had one stay inside the animal, including big elk and wild boar.

 

[Rent Outdoor Gear]

Unfortunately titanium won't hold an edge like high quality steel.

 

[Brandon Pattison]

I wondered that too. Maybe a Ti/SS alloy someday.

 

[Brandon Pattison]

http://www.3riversarchery.com/Steel...evel+Screw-In+Broadheads_i5776X_baseitem.html

 

[Brandon Pattison]

Do broadheads need to hold and edge or just be sharp one time?

 

[Rent Outdoor Gear]

They need to stay sharp all the way through a critter as an absolute minimum. Definitely don't want a blade dulling on hair and hide/bone. Hard to quantify that, but I suspect a Rockwell hardness threshold would be pretty telling versus how much a blade can cut before a given edge would dull, but there are many other factors such as edge taper that would also influence such a test/comparison.

 

[Steve O]

Unfortunately titanium won't hold an edge like high quality steel.

Darin is absolutely correct on this. Lots of stainless is the same way too.