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<blockquote data-quote="Anschutz" data-source="post: 1201591" data-attributes="member: 33100"><p>I've taken 3 deer with a bow with three different broadheads. 2 fixed and one mechanical. I'm a huge proponent of practicing to a range much further than you would ever think of shooting at game and have your bow tuned as close to perfect as you can get it. My first deer with a bow was a one by none (unicorn as my mom called it) at about 15 yards with a 100gr thunderhead. I had tuned my bow poorly and didn't account for a quartering too angle. Hit a few inches off where I was aiming and hit the liver. I waited a while kicking myself for making a poor shot and failing to confirm everything before I went hunting. Nonetheless, I ended up centering up the liver and if it weren't for thicket blocking my view I would have watched him bed down. The second deer I took was with a NAP Killzone and I had it shooting very well out of my bow. Again the shot was short on a small doe which stuck around after two misjudged yardages (I thought she was a larger doe) She was quartering to me and this time I accounted for this and the arrow entered just behind the shoulder hitting the center of the first lung and the rear of the second. I watched her go down within 30 yards of where I was. The third was with a Magnus Stinger 4-blade (cheaper, sharpened on my sharpener and then honed with extra fine sandpaper, overall my favorite head) on a fairly large bodied NY 7-pt at 24 yards lasered after the fact. I had switched to a SpotHogg TommyHogg and leave it set to 35 yards when hunting. It was near dark and I was already tying my bow up to get out of the stand when I heard something behind me. After getting an arrow in, stopping the deer, finding my peep then pin, and settling behind the front leg in the lower third of the body, I let fly. I watched the lighted nock go higher than I was aiming but still a good lung shot, sparks flew from hitting a rock and I watched the deer fall after maybe 45 yards. The blood trail was better than the Thunderhead deer and the body cavity was filled with blood upon field dressing it. Overall, I don't like switching broadheads based on what I'm hunting so since I live in CO I'll stick with the Stingers in hopes that I can get an elk this fall/winter. Sorry for the Novel. </p><p>-Zach</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Anschutz, post: 1201591, member: 33100"] I've taken 3 deer with a bow with three different broadheads. 2 fixed and one mechanical. I'm a huge proponent of practicing to a range much further than you would ever think of shooting at game and have your bow tuned as close to perfect as you can get it. My first deer with a bow was a one by none (unicorn as my mom called it) at about 15 yards with a 100gr thunderhead. I had tuned my bow poorly and didn't account for a quartering too angle. Hit a few inches off where I was aiming and hit the liver. I waited a while kicking myself for making a poor shot and failing to confirm everything before I went hunting. Nonetheless, I ended up centering up the liver and if it weren't for thicket blocking my view I would have watched him bed down. The second deer I took was with a NAP Killzone and I had it shooting very well out of my bow. Again the shot was short on a small doe which stuck around after two misjudged yardages (I thought she was a larger doe) She was quartering to me and this time I accounted for this and the arrow entered just behind the shoulder hitting the center of the first lung and the rear of the second. I watched her go down within 30 yards of where I was. The third was with a Magnus Stinger 4-blade (cheaper, sharpened on my sharpener and then honed with extra fine sandpaper, overall my favorite head) on a fairly large bodied NY 7-pt at 24 yards lasered after the fact. I had switched to a SpotHogg TommyHogg and leave it set to 35 yards when hunting. It was near dark and I was already tying my bow up to get out of the stand when I heard something behind me. After getting an arrow in, stopping the deer, finding my peep then pin, and settling behind the front leg in the lower third of the body, I let fly. I watched the lighted nock go higher than I was aiming but still a good lung shot, sparks flew from hitting a rock and I watched the deer fall after maybe 45 yards. The blood trail was better than the Thunderhead deer and the body cavity was filled with blood upon field dressing it. Overall, I don't like switching broadheads based on what I'm hunting so since I live in CO I'll stick with the Stingers in hopes that I can get an elk this fall/winter. Sorry for the Novel. -Zach [/QUOTE]
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