What's in your quiver?

[ramsdude47]

I'm a total noob and have read ad nauseam about arrows and broadheads online. Talk about serious information overload! I'm curious to hear specifics about what people carry in the field. Maybe this is the dumbest question ever, but I haven't really found much that adequately answers the questions firing around in my neurotic brain. I opted for a poll to potentially get higher volume of results even if people don't post.

I can talk myself into a rationale for every one of these options (except >2 systems). I'm expecting most people carry all of the same arrows/broadheads. I can understand the attraction to the simplicity. But in my brain I just have to believe it would be more versatile to have at least 2 options. Having more than 2 options just seems too complicated, but I did include it because you just never know.

Enlighten me!

 

[ozyclint]

Up to 3 different BH's on the same arrow setup plus a blunt or two.

 

[5MilesBack]

I used to carry a grouse arrow plus 4 of the same arrow with two different BH's. Now I ignore grouse and carry all the same arrows with at least 2 different BH's.......125gr Exodus and 125gr GR Fatal Steel or Spitfires.

 

[Billy Goat]

I might have upto 4 different point options. Only way I'd have a different arrow would be if it weighed close to the same and was dirt cheap to use as a stump arrow. Or a flu flu.

 

[ramsdude47]

I used to carry a grouse arrow plus 4 of the same arrow with two different BH's. Now I ignore grouse and carry all the same arrows with at least 2 different BH's.......125gr Exodus and 125gr GR Fatal Steel or Spitfires.

Interesting a fixed and mech. That wasn’t really on my radar, can I ask your rationale?

Also interested to hear about having 4 different points. I feel like I wouldn’t be able to remember which is where in the heat of the moment.

 

[CB4]

Depends on the state regs. For example in Idaho it is fixed blades only so all the same arrow with the same head. Where mechanicals are allowed I will run the same arrow but one fixed and one mechanical head. Always have a judo point in the bino harness for small game.

 

[Brack28]

Go listen to the Eastmans elevated podcast with James Yates, He goes in-depth about a two arrow, two broadhead setup and why he does it. It's a good listen if you like to tinker with your bow/arrow setup. I like a slightly heavy arrow somewhere around 490-520 ish grains with a good fixed blade head( I use Ironwill solid and wide),

 

[5MilesBack]

Interesting a fixed and mech. That wasn’t really on my radar, can I ask your rationale?

Also interested to hear about having 4 different points. I feel like I wouldn’t be able to remember which is where in the heat of the moment.

You don't really have to remember in the heat of the moment if all your arrows impact the same. And I tune my bow so that my fixed heads and mechanicals all hit the same as FP's at 60 yards. That's not really all that difficult, since my mechanicals tend to follow whatever my fixed are doing. However, my mechanicals are a heck of a lot less impacted by the wind. And I much prefer the blood trails of the mechanicals. I shot a moose this year with a fixed and a mechanical, and then I shot a sheep with a fixed and a mechanical. The fixed were good shots and would have killed them on their own, but if they're still standing......even if they're wobbling.......I'm still shooting. Neither took a single step after the mechanical hits.

But sometimes I reach for the mechanical heads first.........I generally don't need another arrow after that. I like my standby's.......but I also like testing new stuff. So I've always had multiple different BH's in my quiver. As long as they all hit the same, it shouldn't matter.

 

[ramsdude47]

Fantastic stuff in that Podcast, pretty much aligns exactly with what I want to try to run. I didn’t realize mechs were the way to go for long range, however.

I know absolutely nothing about tuning so didn’t realize it would be possible to get two different setups to tune to the same POI. Thank you for your elaborate response 5miles.

 

[5MilesBack]

I know absolutely nothing about tuning so didn’t realize it would be possible to get two different setups to tune to the same POI. Thank you for your elaborate response 5miles.

There are a lot of manufacturers and folks that say their heads "fly just like a FP". Well, if that was the case, then you should be able to shoot a bare shaft into the same hole whether it has a FP or those heads on it. From my experience.......that doesn't happen.

But with enough fletching and tuning adjustments, a fixed head, mechanical heads, and FP's should all be able to impact similarly.

 

[406unltd]

4 vaps tipped with 3 fixed and 1 mech
1 gtpp weighted to match, with a judo

 

[S.Clancy]

5 arrows, 3 mechanical (Sevr 1.7) and 2 fixed (Trophy Taker shuttle T). I'll shoot the mech for basically all the shots, I have the fixed for closer brushy shots

 

[Samdemarais]

Fantastic stuff in that Podcast, pretty much aligns exactly with what I want to try to run. I didn’t realize mechs were the way to go for long range, however.

I know absolutely nothing about tuning so didn’t realize it would be possible to get two different setups to tune to the same POI. Thank you for your elaborate response 5miles.

Ya that was a great podcast, mostly for the story of the buck. I have 2 sevr 125 and 2 iron will s125. My intent is for short range and more obscure shot angles to use the iron will , or shooting through a little grass. Longer shots, windy days, follow up shots etc, shoot the sevr. I think a really good shooter could get mechanicals and fixed to fly very close to similar at 70-80 but beyond that the drag of the fixed is just going to hit lower.

 

[InDeep]

I personally carry 2 types of heads . I haven't convinced myself that Mechanicals heads will do the trick on elk. So the Elk get the Iron wills; and the Deer get the carnifours !

 

[ramsdude47]

Closer than I expected though I believe due to the confusing way I worded it some of the 2nd category responses actually belong elsewhere.