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[Billy Goat]

To me, it doesn't seem as if these replaceable blade heads are as sharp as they used to be. Maybe it's a liability issue, I don't know. But when I was hitting it hard in the late 90's, early 2000's, I was almost afraid to swap blades in my Muzzy heads--they were like scalpels. I cut myself more than once.

Late response, but....


Company that use to make blades for wasp, muzzy, and many others was just a few miles from me.

Guess what, got bought out, moved much of the production to China.


I haven't really investigated it, I have a neighbor who was an engineer pre and post buyout, but I suspect it's just quality of material. Initial blade sharpness is one thing, edge retention is another. I think it's in the retention many of the new replaceable blade stuff suffers.

 

[Mbatsonz7]

Magnus or Qad

 

[DDMRK18]

Kayuga

Been very happy with QADs, iron wills, and Kayuga Pilot cuts. Heads I’ve had bad experiences with include grizzly stick, Kayuga tri zot, and TOTA. Mixed results with slick trick, but mixed results = no go in my book.

What were the bad experiences with the trizots? I've been eying the 175gr heads

 

[Outdoorjoe318]

Kayuga

What were the bad experiences with the trizots? I've been eying the 175gr heads

They fly great, seem sharp, and never had one break. But ive shot 5 animals with them and only had one recovery with no drama. Ive found 2 the following day, near perfect shots, went insanely far(one was still alive). I dont know if they tiny cut plus twist lets it seal up or what but its been a weird issue for me. Never happened with any other head. Love the style and how they fly, but theres something weird about it. Horrible blood trails too. I can send you pics of those 2 animals and where i hit them but i know wtf im doing and something just ain't right with em.

Honestly once I have that many bad experiences, I stop trying to analyze and just move on to something that works. Im lucky in that i get to shoot tons of animals and most of these losses were whitetail does, but they really gave me a problem. Even put a dog on some of em and we were just following pin pricks and waaaayyyyy too far. Im used to 80-100 yds max tracking with a good shot, often watching em fall.

 

[DDMRK18]

In my experience kudus fly well but I’d say they’re not sharp at all compared to some others. I sent back nine of them to be factory re-sharpened and they all came back. I tested all of them and none of them were sharp enough for me to really want to use. Compared to QAD, IW, or megameats, they’re incredibly dull in my experience.

Again, fly good for me, but with a well tuned bow, I can get almost all high-quality fixed broadheads to hit with my field points til about 70 as well as I can shoot. Past that they start grouping a little bit lower than field points in my experience.

I would agree with this. I bought a few packs of the contour plus and I wasn't very happy with the sharpness of them. Ended up selling all but 3 of them. They do fly well and the 150 has a big cut for a 2 blade fixed head but the sharpness definitely isn't on par with others I have.

 

[DDMRK18]

They fly great, seem sharp, and never had one break. But ive shot 5 animals with them and only had one recovery with no drama. Ive found 2 the following day, near perfect shots, went insanely far(one was still alive). I dont know if they tiny cut plus twist lets it seal up or what but its been a weird issue for me. Never happened with any other head. Love the style and how they fly, but theres something weird about it. Horrible blood trails too. I can send you pics of those 2 animals and where i hit them but i know wtf im doing and something just ain't right with em.

Honestly once I have that many bad experiences, I stop trying to analyze and just move on to something that works. Im lucky in that i get to shoot tons of animals and most of these losses were whitetail does, but they really gave me a problem. Even put a dog on some of em and we were just following pin pricks and waaaayyyyy too far. Im used to 80-100 yds max tracking with a good shot, often watching em fall.

That's wild! What grain were you shooting?

 

[Outdoorjoe318]

That's wild! What grain were you shooting?

150. Again, fly fantastic. I would highly recommend the pilot cuts, especially with that extra big bleeder, that thing is super legit and ive had great luck with it. Full pass thru long ways on an African lion, and with no bleeders buried to the fletch(stiff 4 fletch) on cape buffalo and giraffe. Shot many deer with them with the wide bleeder as well and no issues.

 

[DDMRK18]

150. Again, fly fantastic. I would highly recommend the pilot cuts, especially with that extra big bleeder, that thing is super legit and ive had great luck with it. Full pass thru long ways on an African lion, and with no bleeders buried to the fletch(stiff 4 fletch) on cape buffalo and giraffe. Shot many deer with them with the wide bleeder as well and no issues.

Funny you say that. This past season was my first season bow hunting. Got my first doe with a 175 gr pilot cut with the 1" bleeders. That's what got me looking at the trizots. I'm glad I found your post before I went to the trouble of ordering them. I'd still like to get some just because I'm a Broadhead addict lol, but for hunting probably not

 

[Outdoorjoe318]

Funny you say that. This past season was my first season bow hunting. Got my first doe with a 175 gr pilot cut with the 1" bleeders. That's what got me looking at the trizots. I'm glad I found your post before I went to the trouble of ordering them. I'd still like to get some just because I'm a Broadhead addict lol, but for hunting probably not

Hell yeah, congrats dude!! That's awesome. When youre ready to come bowhunt Africa and get to test a bunch of heads back to back let me know!!

 

[DDMRK18]

Hell yeah, congrats dude!! That's awesome. When youre ready to come bowhunt Africa and get to test a bunch of heads back to back let me know!!

Thank you! Maybe one day I'll be able to lol. If you have the pictures of the wounds could you send them to me? I'd like to check them out

 

[benkahle9]

I may be in the minority of bow hunters on this forum in that I don’t think too much about my broad head at all.

I have exclusively used Muzzy Trocars for over 10 years and while I have had my fair share of unrecovered deer I don’t think it has anything to do with the broad head design.

What I think is much more important obviously is shot placement and head is sharp. I think really anything will do the trick and I don’t think the amount of time for a critter to crash/expire is an appropriate measure of one designs lethality vs another (all other things like shot placement being equal in both cases)

 

[MtnRedy27]

QAD Exodus are the only broadheads I’ll use. Lethal, reliable, durable, and sliced tags to prove they’re mighty effective!

 

[EP357]

Can't go wrong with VPA

 

[T-town]

Thunderheads for the past 35 years. If it aint broke..............

 

[Robinhedd]

Magnus Stinger 125

 

[ozyclint]

Give me a 160gr glue on STOS......if they were still made.

 

[Philotheos777]

Evolution Jekyll is my choice for fixed heads.

However, I use mechanicals for elk and have killed my last 5 bulls with them. Since switching most die within sight and zero have went over 100 yards. In fact I would bet combined they haven’t gone much over 200.

Which mech do you prefer?

 

[Philotheos777]

I really believe it has more to do with the encounter than the hit that decides if an animal runs or stays. I switched solely to expandables when they became legal in Oregon. Since switching I have had much better blood trails, I’m color blind and that is the biggest reason for switching.

Out of the animals I’ve killed with expandables over 50% have just walked off or stood there. My bull this year looked around and walked up the hill following a cow while a river of blood ran out of him. The farthest an animal has only gone maybe 130 yards. I’ve watched 2 bulls and an antelope tip over not more than a couple dozen yards from where they were hit.

I’ve had similar experiences with COC fixed heads but with way less blood. I've had more animals run off with COC fixed heads than mechanicals.

Here's a speed goat staggering and dying 30 yards from where he was hit with a huge mechanical.

What expandable are you running?

 

[Stache Attack]

Slick trick magnum if I ran your setup. I have broken a blade on a rock but if You want blood a four blade is great and I have had excellent flight with slick tricks

 

[nphunter]

Which mech do you prefer?

I’ve had great luck with G5 dead meats, Rage Trypans and Evolution Hyde’s. I’m currently shooting Glue in Hyde’s and really like them. I’ve killed the most elk with Dead meats and they’ve always performed flawlessly as well.