Longest Mechanical Kill

[KBF]

With all the broadhead talk lately, would like to hear a good and bad stories about the longest kill anyone has taken with a mechanical. Not going to get into ethics on this as we all know where it can go.

1)Make of head
2) Species
3) Distance
5) Recovery distance

And so forth, anything pertinent

[1ruger]

rage,mulley 59 yrds, dead in 42yrds. absoultly outstanding watching blood shoot from both sides as it run away. bull moose rage 43yrds and fell in 60yrds last fall.

[petew]

and include the longest wounds and misses.

[randymarriott]

Mulie. 40yds G5 Tekken 2 ran 100+/- AND DROPPED
Watched the blood shoot out of the pass thru hole as she bolted.

[Ultimate Predator]

84 yrds antelope buck 2 blade spitfire passtrough 70 bull caribou 3 blade rocket hammerhead pass trough 65 muley buck grimms pass trough 1997 PSE bow 180fps

[Ultimate Predator]

280 fps never lost an animal due to mechanical broad head failure tried the rage broadheads didnt like everytime i pulled one out of the quiver a blade was allways open

[Buck~Knife]

when the rage 2 blades first came out,I gave them a try and was very impressed,made a mess out of everything i shot,dead in 25 yards or less.

My mistake is I was cheap,i used one broadhead on 3 animals,replacing with new blades each time,but the ferrule was weak after 3 big game animals and I ended up shooting a big 225 lb mature 8 pointer and at 20 yards out of a 70lb bow,the arrow went right into the boiler room,but no penetration as if it hit shoulder.I picked up his trail the next morning and 9 hours later i found him in is bed stone dead 3/4 of a mile from where i shot him.

The head broke and i only got one lung,leaving the threaded part of the broadhead ferrule still in the arrow.

I shot deer out to 40 yards with rage 2 blades and the only thing i didn't like is that the blades wouldn''t always stay closed.I would never re-use any head now,not even if it looked perfect,i'd use it for varmints and always use a new head for big game,whether you can replace the blades or not.

[Salavee]

and include the longest wounds and misses.

Great idea !!

[cody j]

Mule deer,60 yards,rocket steelhead,deer ran 20 or 30 yards and tipped over

[H380]

and include the longest wounds and misses.

I think that is what he meant about good "AND" bad stories .Seems like the bad stories are the ones we never hear .

[huntin]

When I was younger and not as smart I shot a bull moose on a hale marry shot at 92 yards. With a steal head I think is what it was called. Hit him low in the guts. 1.5miles later I found him dead. Not very proud and will never do that again.

[petew]

I think that is what he meant about good "AND" bad stories .Seems like the bad stories are the ones we never hear .

Exactly.

[slough shark]

I've only ever shot 1 deer with a mechanical,a 2 blade spitfire, mulie doe directly under my treestand. I hit it directly between the shoulder blades hitting the lungs and it ran about 150 yards and didn't leave much of a bloodtrail although that could have been because something plugged the exit hole. Either way I just use fixed blade broadheads now, I figure there it just removes the possible chance of mechanical failure.

[Lefty-Canuck]

I will not use a 2 blade anything ever.....3 blade or 3+ blade fixed or mechanical for me.

I like the idea of a three flap wound vs. a slit of a wound.

LC

[KBF]

Great idea !!

Like the original post says

[pottymouth]

Spitfire 100 grain (3 blade)

41yds on an antelope. Recovery was 3ft to his left !

[HoytAlpha35]

62 yards, Rag horn elk, Rocket Steelhead in front of an axis arrow, 390 grains finished. The conditions were good and I made a perfect quartering away shot. He piled up less than 100 yards. Thankfully never had any bad long shots, but I also know better than to take those stupid long shots now. Hopefully that last sentence sticks with a newbie!

[smith88]

I've only ever shot 1 deer with a mechanical,a 2 blade spitfire, mulie doe directly under my treestand. I hit it directly between the shoulder blades hitting the lungs and it ran about 150 yards and didn't leave much of a bloodtrail although that could have been because something plugged the exit hole. Either way I just use fixed blade broadheads now, I figure there it just removes the possible chance of mechanical failure.


Not trying to be a smart a** but could it possibly have been the angle of the shot and not the broadhead that caused the problem?

[jcrayford]

Good story.... hunted 9 years without ever taking an animal, then egged on by my brother, shot a fork Muley with a 100 gr. Steelhead at 80 yards. Muley went 60 yards uphill out of creek and expired 30 yards from the truck. That started off my archery career and have aspired to take closer shots.... 2007, 5x5 bull Elk at 20 yards, 100 gr. Steelhead, spun and went 60 yards back into meadow, then walked 40 yards into edge of trees and laid down for good..... 2009, Muley doe at 40 yards, complete pass-through with 100 gr. Steelhead, doe piled into barbed wire fence 20 yards later and that was it.... 2011, 4x4 Muley buck at 47 yards, lodged in offside front shoulder socket with a 100 gr. Grim Reaper Whitetail special, ran 50 yards and was down for the count, just when the school bus came by.... But the best was 2010, not a single drop spilled - had a 2x2 come in and sniff my arrow 12" away from my bow hand.... That season was perfect!

I've tried fixed, but can't find the accuracy confidence with them that I get with my Steelheads (and now with Grims). I'm sure that given enough time, I'll have one of those "horror stories" that fixed-lovers crave to pass along to everyone, but I'm sure that the horror story will come at the cost of my own stupidity - not the broadheads fault.... I'm the one releasing the head!

J.

[L.O.S.T.Arrow]

:D Im one of those Fixed broadhead fan boyz mentioned ...lol

Having said that ...the NAP Spitfire looked like the tuffest expandable out there..was also frition and no rubber bands...like an expandable thunderhead...

So although i have shot and tested a lot of expandables..with the spitfire I thought I would give expandables a try...

I had a mule doe tag here at home so I would test them that way...

It was a perfect broadside 30 yard shot...

on entry the Spitfire sheared off one of its thick blades on a rib...

The mule doe only went 20-30 yards

however I wasnt impressed with that one blade breaking thats 33.3333.3333333 % of the blades cutting surface...lol

so I simply stick to a fixed I trust...
If you shoot a mecanical or expandable...thats your choice and I respect that..

Neil

[raymondpeters]

shot a 150" whitetail 2 years ago with a g5 tekan from 0 yards, ran 70-80 yards before he stopped and tipped, that was after i nicked his back at 40 yards a minute prior. found out the next day that my 40 yard pin was set to low hence the high shot.

[NayNay]

Shot a nice WT last year with a Grim Reaper 1 3/8". Shot was 45 yards and I put the arrow to far farward and hit the shoulder blade. Arrow didn't penetrate and bent the broadhead all to hell. Tip bent over and two blades were bent. Wasn't impressed with the performance. But like I said it's my fault for not putting the arrow where it needed to go.
This year I'm shooting Magnus Buzzcuts 125gr.
Here is a pic of the deer and the Broadhead.
http://i1254.photobucket.com/albums/hh619/NathanBohning/20121019_221602-1.jpg (http://s1254.photobucket.com/user/NathanBohning/media/20121019_221602-1.jpg.html)
http://i1254.photobucket.com/albums/hh619/NathanBohning/Oatfieldse095.jpg (http://s1254.photobucket.com/user/NathanBohning/media/Oatfieldse095.jpg.html)

[slough shark]

Not trying to be a smart a** but could it possibly have been the angle of the shot and not the broadhead that caused the problem?

The angle definately had something to contribute to the problem of plugging however I have shot a couple of deer from pretty close to the same angle with a 3 blade thunderhead (fixed blade) and never had an issue with tracking it down on the blood trail. I just prefer to use the fixed blades now as I think there is less that can go wrong on that part of the shot.

[calgarychef]

I don't shoot mechanicals so take this for what it's worth. A lot of research by folks like Doc Ashby point to the "cartwheeling" effect on quartering shots. This is where the blades deploy and cause the arrow to flip out its the intended shot path and they basically lose most of their energy in a sideways motion instead of a forward motion. If I did shoot mechanicals it would only be on direct side shots never on quartering or worse strongly quartering shots, there just seems to be too much to go wrong there.