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<blockquote data-quote="41mag" data-source="post: 1240487" data-attributes="member: 3804"><p>For me it comes down to penetration and accuracy. Not so much different than when using a rifle. </p><p></p><p>In the areas I hunt I might be shooting at a 80# doe or a 350# feral hog in the same afternoon. I don't want to take any chances on something not working like it is supposed to. When I got back into this a decade ago I was hunting hard and heavy with one of the best friends I have ever had. He had years more experience with bows and using them than I did so I sort of leaned hard on his words. One evening he was sitting a stand he had waited a month for the wind to get right. Well actually it was the opening morning of rifle season but he had been seeing a huge buck and wanted to take him with his bow. For reasons unknown to me he had switched up his broadheads to something a coworker swore by and had hit his buck square on the shoulder as it turned at the drop of the string. To be honest I have seen some sick hunters in my years and I knew when he came out of the woods he had screwed the pooch. </p><p></p><p>We went over and over things and the sad part was he had a rifle with him but simply knew he had hit the deer hard and was waiting on it to drop when it faded into the thick woods. The deer lived and we saw it a couple of more times, and it was literally a beast of a buck. It also learned from the encounter.</p><p></p><p>What came of it was my friends obsession to never have that happen again. While it might have been a fluke once in a lifetime shot he took it personally. We reviewed about everything on the market and shot who knows how many different broadheads in the process into all sorts of head smashing bones and from multiple angles and distances. We came up with the best all around heads being a short bladed cut on contact with a chisel point on them. The thing was most of these type heads are priced out of our budget in most cases so the one we actually settled on were the Slick Trick Razor Tricks. With a simple modification to the tip to give it a small square sharpened point they blew through most anything we shot them into including the big shoulder bones of a hog. Much to our surprise the then owner of Slick Tricks, jumped on this as well and incorporated it into his factory produced blades. Not that we inspired it, but we were in contact with him discussing things about them at the time.</p><p></p><p>Unfortunately they have now dropped those heads from their line, but they still will remain a go to product for me for a long time to come. I haven't found anything else that flew as straight, clipped right on through, and left things dropping usually withing 4-7 seconds of being hit as these things do. The doe I shot weekend before last piled up withing 30yds. I have shot multitudes of feral hogs and yes I have ruined quite a few blades hitting large bone, but overall most of the time they simply slip right through and I get more damage from what they hit on the other side. Usually the ground. </p><p></p><p>All this isn't to say these are the best thing out there. What I will say however is it is hard to beat a sturdy built actual cut on contact head for penetration. Accuracy is another matter as individual tuning and speed does play into some heads accuracy. However if things are dialed in proper, a razor on the front will trump a sharpened steel point time after time. I have recently tried some of the newer Viper Tricks and feel that they are about as close to getting the performance of the Razor Trick as one might come when using a machined point head. They DO penetrate like a hot knife through butter, but I just haven't fallen for them yet. They may come into the swing of things later on as I tune up another bow, but for now the Razors have a good future with all three I have at the moment.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="41mag, post: 1240487, member: 3804"] For me it comes down to penetration and accuracy. Not so much different than when using a rifle. In the areas I hunt I might be shooting at a 80# doe or a 350# feral hog in the same afternoon. I don't want to take any chances on something not working like it is supposed to. When I got back into this a decade ago I was hunting hard and heavy with one of the best friends I have ever had. He had years more experience with bows and using them than I did so I sort of leaned hard on his words. One evening he was sitting a stand he had waited a month for the wind to get right. Well actually it was the opening morning of rifle season but he had been seeing a huge buck and wanted to take him with his bow. For reasons unknown to me he had switched up his broadheads to something a coworker swore by and had hit his buck square on the shoulder as it turned at the drop of the string. To be honest I have seen some sick hunters in my years and I knew when he came out of the woods he had screwed the pooch. We went over and over things and the sad part was he had a rifle with him but simply knew he had hit the deer hard and was waiting on it to drop when it faded into the thick woods. The deer lived and we saw it a couple of more times, and it was literally a beast of a buck. It also learned from the encounter. What came of it was my friends obsession to never have that happen again. While it might have been a fluke once in a lifetime shot he took it personally. We reviewed about everything on the market and shot who knows how many different broadheads in the process into all sorts of head smashing bones and from multiple angles and distances. We came up with the best all around heads being a short bladed cut on contact with a chisel point on them. The thing was most of these type heads are priced out of our budget in most cases so the one we actually settled on were the Slick Trick Razor Tricks. With a simple modification to the tip to give it a small square sharpened point they blew through most anything we shot them into including the big shoulder bones of a hog. Much to our surprise the then owner of Slick Tricks, jumped on this as well and incorporated it into his factory produced blades. Not that we inspired it, but we were in contact with him discussing things about them at the time. Unfortunately they have now dropped those heads from their line, but they still will remain a go to product for me for a long time to come. I haven't found anything else that flew as straight, clipped right on through, and left things dropping usually withing 4-7 seconds of being hit as these things do. The doe I shot weekend before last piled up withing 30yds. I have shot multitudes of feral hogs and yes I have ruined quite a few blades hitting large bone, but overall most of the time they simply slip right through and I get more damage from what they hit on the other side. Usually the ground. All this isn't to say these are the best thing out there. What I will say however is it is hard to beat a sturdy built actual cut on contact head for penetration. Accuracy is another matter as individual tuning and speed does play into some heads accuracy. However if things are dialed in proper, a razor on the front will trump a sharpened steel point time after time. I have recently tried some of the newer Viper Tricks and feel that they are about as close to getting the performance of the Razor Trick as one might come when using a machined point head. They DO penetrate like a hot knife through butter, but I just haven't fallen for them yet. They may come into the swing of things later on as I tune up another bow, but for now the Razors have a good future with all three I have at the moment. [/QUOTE]
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