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    • Bowgnome
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        Has anyone had experiance with the Atom broadhead?? They sound almost too good.

      • Jason Wesbrock
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          Are those the ones with the little wires for blades? If so, they don’t look lile anything I would want to use.

        • Bruce Smithhammer
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            “The most lethal and effective broad head in the world for any size of game.”

            I’ll be honest – this seems like a lot of hype.

            Just take a look at the link on their site, “The Atom’s Technical Data.” Here is but one of several ridiculous quotes:

            “Again, problems with fixed bladed broadheads are the ONLY reason mechanical broadheads emerged as an option to consider.”

            Patently false. None of the “problems” he cites with fixed blade broadheads are by any means inherent to all fixed blade designs, though they certainly have been problems with some designs. However, using problems inherent to some fixed blade designs as a blanket statement for all is ludicrous. And mechanical broadheads did not come about, or solve, most of these problems, while creating numerous others. Mechanical broadheads were, I’m convinced, created by a marketing department, not an engineering one.

            From there, I could barely even continue to read on – it wasn’t about truly technical information, it was mostly a lot of highly personalized conjecture and hype. And really poorly written at that.

            In short, I didn’t see anything at all to convince me that this is somehow an improvement over a well-built, 3:1 ratio fixed blade head. And more than enough to make me think that it’s a significantly worse choice.

          • Stephen Graf
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              I’ve had them in my hand. I don’t know what they are good for, but they are not good for traditional archery.

            • David Petersen
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                Jerry — You asked an honest question and we are not “getting down on you” for that, no way. However, all the above comments offer solid advice. Stay away from these gimmics and use a good fixed-blade broadhead. A quarter-century ago, I fell for a strongly advertised head with 5 replaceable blades that came with a same-weight plastic practice head. It cost me what would have been my first really nice archery bull, good shot placement with a heavy bow but it just didn’t penetrate and left me with an unrecovered wounded animal. The Ashby arrow lethality study determined that the worst possible broadhead type is mechanical, and the best — strongest, best-penetrating, most lethal, is a long narrow two-blade with hardness around 53R, and heavy.

              • FUBAR
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                  Looks kind of like a bird hunting head

                • jmsmithy
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                    I’m very sorry for what I’m about to say so forgive me….in my experience, absolute crap:shock:

                    Saw them a few years ago, shot them from multiple wheelies and, just for the heck of it, out of my 50# Widow about two years ago…

                    A. Can literally just squeeze them and they come apart

                    B. Not really sharp, especially if you compare side by side with a good single bevel head

                    C. Can’t withstand being poked through a burlap target (from approx 6 yards shooting Matthews 60# compound, two of the wires where broken off….)

                    D. Didn’t fly any better or worse than any other head, coupled with the fact that as for practicing with them, it’s a REAL issue as again, they do not hold up to repeated impacts into a block type target, never even bothered trying them on a more solid, Rhinehardt type target…

                    As you can no doubt tell..not real high on these things. I put them up in the gimmick category with those other abominations sold by some Sports-type Guide with the lazer guidance system built in 😈

                    What really torques me up is that someone somewhere is going to / has launched one of these ( or lazer disasters ) at some undeserving game animal….

                    AARRGGHHH!!!!!

                    Sorry if I’m too emotional about this but whatever happened to quality equipment, used by ethical hunters, in fair chase hunt 🙄 ❓

                  • Bowgnome
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                      Thanks guys I appreciate the frank and honest feelings. I would expect no less of traditional folks.

                    • jmsmithy
                      Member
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                        No worries Gnome, that’s what we’re here for….sorry if I got a little preachy there but you’ll see we Trad folks are a passionate bunch about the critters and lifestyle we love ❗

                        😀

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