Durability’s great, I’ve had one break like a 1/8” piece off of the tip of one blade. The rest have looked almost new after passing though elk. The main reason I went expandables is because I’m color blind and can’t really see blood.
This one spun at like 43 yards and shot him through the front of his shoulder and almost buried it to the fletch Died less than 100 yards away. Did gutless and it was 1am when I quartered him so I didn’t open his chest up and find the head.
This one was 60 yards, arrow went all the way though and hung up in the skin on exit. He fell on it and shoved it back in. Perfect broadside, bull went about 40 yards and fell over like 30 feet from my hunting partner, no blood trail needed.
That’s the exit
58 yards and he was like 80’ elevation below me on a super steep hillside. Clean though, The wife called this bull in. Great blood even though I had a high rib/lung entrance, it was pouring rain too, bull went about 70 yards.
The exit
The head
Here’s a head my son shot all the way through a 4 point mule deer. 28.5” draw, 45lbs and 400gr arrow. Most of the heads you can’t tell apart from new ones after taking them apart and cleaning them.
Broadside, the buck went less than 100 yards but was still hard to find in the deep sage. You can see the entrance in front of his quiver.
I don’t really take many hard quartering shots. My son took a shot on another 4 point buck last year and made a super hard quartering shot. It’s was poor shot placement and the arrow went in through the ribs and exited through right above his hip socket and stayed in the buck. He had to make a follow up shot but the buck didn’t go anywhere and the broadhead did its job. It was a good lesson for him on taking quartered shots. I’ve only taken two hard quartering shots, one with a fixed head on a buck and hit him in the ass when I was younger and I lost him. I also took a quartered toward shot on an antelope and put a rage Trypan through his shoulder blade and it came out in front of his rear quarter. I wouldn’t take a hard quartered shot in a bull. I’ve shot 3 bulls in the shoulder in my life and all three took off with my arrows. One with a sharp fixed head at under 20 yards, I do everything I can to avoid the shoulder on an elk.
The Trypan is another great elk head and is very durable. I’m switching to evolution heads this year because of the glue in option, i kept all of my dead meats though because they are great heads.
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