What's your broadhead and draw weight?

[Etter1]

#2923

Just wondering what everybody shoots and what your results have been. I have shot whitetails with both zwickey deltas and tree sharks, but the tree sharks have proven to me to be the superior head. Even from my 50# bow, they have great penetration and are just brutal on deer size game.

[Terry Lightle]

#14439

49# Cari- Bow with 135 grain 2 blade Magnus with 75 grain Woody Weight behind it.Total arrow weight is 710 grains

[tailfeather]

#14444

Magnus 1 out of a 51 @ 28″ longbow….thought at my draw length its more in the neighborhood of 48 lbs.

The Mag 1 is a 1.5″ cut, which is also pretty serious. I’ve always been concerned about the penetration of those huge, concave Simmons heads out of my bow. But seeing your results and those of several others…..they are wicked, indeed.

I’m happy with my Magnus, though……:D Though I am getting some single bevels next year, as I think I’ve told you repeatedly. 8)

[William Warren]

#14455

145gr Bear Razorheads with and without the bleeder blades. 130 gr Rothaar Snuffer (now Magnus Snuffer) Pass throughs with both with decent blood trails. Alot more blood with the Snuffer.

Have yet to get a deer with the Zwickeys. Am interested in the Simmons heads though. They look wicked.

Razorheads with 47# and 50#. Snuffer with 58#. My draw length is 26 1/2″

[archer38]

#14504

I shoot 47# from a Howatt X-200, arrows are around 500 grains tipped with 145 grain Bear Razorhead. Works out to a touch over 15% FOC. Only killed one big game animal with this set up but it passed through a black bear like butter. Never touched bone though

[Jason Wesbrock]

#14590

My normal setup since 2004 has been a mid-50s recurve with 125-grain Ace Standards on arrows weighing 500 grains, give or take a couple grains. I’ve put them through everything from small game to deer, elk, one especially nasty boar hog, and a mature bull moose. I don’t think I’ve ever left one in an animal. Before switching to Ace heads I had similar results with Zwickey four-blades (both Eskimos and Deltas), various three-blade heads, and once with a four-blade Zephyr.

[Stumpkiller]

#14620

Stos 130 gr & RibTek 125S (& 125W, but I prefer the “S”) & Magnus II 125 gr out of 63# and 55# @ 31-1/2″ full-tapered shafts with a 30-3/4″ draw and 600 to 620 gr arrows. Good results and usually a full & clear pass-through with broadside hits.

[David Petersen]

#15424

53#, 300-grain Tuffheads. Shoot plumb through elk.

[Bruce Smithhammer]

#15457

57# draw and 225 gr. Steel Force Traditional (+ 100gr. insert).

[BuckyT]

#15643

56# @ 28″ Magnus 2 125gr. I have 100gr brass inserts in my arrows as well.

Performed well on my only big game kill at moment. Whitetail.

[Bowhunter57]

#16186

53#@29″ Zipper.Using Full length Easton Axis 340’s Snuffer Head,and 100 grain Brass inserts.

[lyagooshka]

#16213

125 gr. 50# @ 28″. Magnus BH. Seems to work great on the broadhead range 😆 . Hope to let you know how it works on a deer some time this season.

[David Coulter]

#16231

#46 Leon Stewart Slammer Special longbow, Beman Bowhunter 400s, 50 grain insert, 75 grain adapter, 225 grain Tuffhead. No experience to report, but they fly nice. dwc

[jaytbuzzard]

#16838

Last year I shot Full Metal Jackets with 145 grain Bear Razorheads out of a 60″ 50lb Shakespeare recurve. I took a nice size doe with that setup. This year Beman ICS Hunter 400s, Bear Razorheads with steel adaptors now weighing 250 grains out of a Ben Pearson Mustang 58″ 50lb recurve. No kill yet, but these things fly straight and true.

[Etter1]

#17648

tailfeather wrote: Magnus 1 out of a 51 @ 28″ longbow….thought at my draw length its more in the neighborhood of 48 lbs.

The Mag 1 is a 1.5″ cut, which is also pretty serious. I’ve always been concerned about the penetration of those huge, concave Simmons heads out of my bow. But seeing your results and those of several others…..they are wicked, indeed.

I’m happy with my Magnus, though……:D Though I am getting some single bevels next year, as I think I’ve told you repeatedly. 8)

But this one has eleven….:D

[Leo Carrisalez]

#18410

100grn Insert, 260grn Abowyer Brown Bear, 340 Beman Camohunter

52@27″

[Kent Hansen]

#18701

I shoot a 93lb Howard Hill Big Five…have for the last 12 yrs or so…broadhead is the Howard Hill 11/32, 160 grns…it’s a beast. Properly sharpened, it’s wicked effective. Everything from Elk to Turkey have “gone to heaven” as a result of it…

[bruc]

#22205

48 lb. Caribow recurve @ 27 1/2′

145 GR. Stos 2-blade, 125 Gr. Zephyr 2-blade with bleeder blades, older snuffer 3-blade. The snuffer is the first in my quiver to use. It is very sharp !!

Bruce

[J.Alex]

#23302

Blacktail recurve 48# @ 30″ and a 31″ 65/70 POC with a 160 gr. Ace broadhead.

[Etter1]

#23310

lbhunter63 wrote: I shoot a 93lb Howard Hill Big Five…have for the last 12 yrs or so…broadhead is the Howard Hill 11/32, 160 grns…it’s a beast. Properly sharpened, it’s wicked effective. Everything from Elk to Turkey have “gone to heaven” as a result of it…

Wow. I don’t understand how people shoot these bows accurately. I’ve read of a lot of guys going on large game hunts with 80-95 lb bows and just always wonder how it’s possible. I’m a pretty big fella, and have been lifting pretty heavily for the last 17 years but a bow like that is way beyond me. More power to ya!

[Roger Norris]

#24054

Pictured below is an Ace 200 grain head alongside an elk track. I like BIG broadheads, primarily for the damage they create. My set up is 57# to 60#, and this head wieghs 230 grains with the insert. I have not had a chance to shoot an elk with it, but they absolutley zip through a whitetail.

My only concern is that I have never had a “bone” encounter with this set up. I believe in the Ashby theories…and am considering something along the lines of a 3:1 single bevel. I killed a few deer with the Grizzlies several years back, but again, it wasn’t a real test, no bone encounters. And I’m damn sure not going to take a bad shot just to experiment.

[Jason Wesbrock]

#24104

Roger,

If they hold up anything like the 125-grain Standards, you should have no concerns. I’ve put those through quite a bit of heavy whitetail bone (on the exit sides, as it should be) and I have yet to encounter anything in a deer that will damage them. To me, Bob and Jan at Ace are like Jack at Zwickey, if they put their name on it, the quality is excellent.

[ray montoya]

#27192

For years, my go to head was the 100 grain Muzzy Phantoms on beman mx shafts or easton fmj’s out of 57# bows…but this year, for the first time since the 80’s i started shooting wood arrows, and am using zwicky deltas again for a 573 grain arrow…complete pass throughs on mule deer, and im happy to be shoot wood arrows again…

[Raymond Coffman]

#27226

I Hunt with 56-60 lb bows and gold tips /”N”fused axis carbons or wood [poc]arrows with 225 gr tuffheads [carbon heads weights are 425 total]. carbons are about 730 – wood around 640+

Scout

[jmsmithy]

#27313

Allegheny Mt Longbow 54″ 60#@27″. OR

Black Widow PMAII 62″ 50#@28″. OR

Bear Kodiak Magnum 52″ 50″@28″ OR

Fedora Stalker 52″ 52#@28″

Each are fed steady diet of either Beman MFX 400 or GrizStik Alaskans ….

Broadheads never change. Ashby 315gr…. Nothing is safe 😈

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