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in reply to: You Favorite Broadhead and why ? #41282

Greatreearcher,

I’m using the Grizzly El Grande 190 grain heads with a single bevel and tanto style tip. He says that this is one of the best he has tested out of all the broadheads. I am using the steel 100 grain adapters and this brings my whole arrow set up to 610 grains. I have some Abowyer brown bears as well and they are a great broadhead too!

Thanks,

Don

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in reply to: You Favorite Broadhead and why ? #40423

Greatreearcher,

I shoot the same 55 pounds of draw weight that Fred does and have shot clean through elk with 375 grain arrows. Fred shot his moose with a lot heavier arrow and that makes a world of difference. I won’t make the light arrow mistake again. The next elk that is shot by me will be hit with 600 grains or more from now on. Fred uses the phantom and that is a great broadhead for a screw in style. After reading all of Dr. Ashby’s reports on Tradgang, I switched over to Grizzly broadheads to try and get even more penetration out of my arrows. I highly encourage everyone to read his reports, it really opened my eyes. After 20 years of traditional archery, I realized I was making a huge error in my arrow weight. I’ll guarantee that Mr. Karch was using heavy arrows to kill his buffalo.

Jer11bravo, if you read Dr. Ashby’s reports, you will see that the two blade heads outperform multiblade heads hands down. Especially single bevel two blade heads!

Don

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in reply to: Have you ever considered a longbow ?? #28709

Texasota,

That is a tough one! It is like asking “how big is a shoe?” or “What does a carrot taste like?”
There are so many different designs out there that it is impossible to say. For years the recurves had it as a whole but now there are a handful of bowyers (ACS CX carbon longbow, Bob Morrison carbon/foam longbow, Black swan archery carbon/ceramic hybrid) that are making the fastest bows on the planet and they are all skinny limbed carbon backed longbows. That is what makes traditional archery so darn much fun! Someone is always making a better bow so that we have a harder time deciding which one to buy.

Don

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in reply to: You Favorite Broadhead and why ? #34080

Montana,

No, there really was no chance that I hit the shoulder on this one. I stalked him for 45 minutes until I was at a little over 20 yards and made one of the best shots of my life. It hit about 2 inches behind the elbow and a little higher than the elbow and it was a quartering away shot that should have punched both lungs. It made a loud crack when it hit so it had to have centerpunched a rib, that is all that is in that area of an elk. Anyway, the reason I was shooting an arrow so light was that I never really gave it much thought before this happened. I just bought gold tip arrows that were spined right and then screwed a Woodsman on the end and went hunting. I had killed elk in the past with no problem at all, but that was with magnus two blade heads. I switched to Woodsmans because they always looked so deadly to me. After this incident I started doing a lot of reading of Ashby’s reports on Tradgang.com and the results are quite astonishing and really opened my eyes to the flaws in my setup, ie: light arrow weight and pointed three blade broadheads. I highly recommend reading all of his reports, they are the most extensive on arrow penetration that has ever been done.

Thanks,
Don

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in reply to: You Favorite Broadhead and why ? #33752

I really liked the Woodsmans as well, until I lost an elk that was hit perfectly behind the shoulder quartering away from me. I got about 8 inches of penetration with my 55 lb. recurve shooting 450gr. goldtip arrows with a woodsman. I was so upset that I almost gave up traditional archery after 20 years. That is when I really started looking into the reasons why this happened and starting reading everything that Dr. Ashby has written about broadhead penetration. Anyway, my choice now is single bevel broadheads with long tapers and heavy weight. I personally am shooting 190 grain Grizzlies with a total arrow weight of 650 grains. If money was no object, I would be shooting the Ashby from Alaska Bowhunters supply.

I think Woodsmans are fine for deer but for heavy boned animals like elk or moose, I would seriously look at a heavy single bevel broadhead.

Just my two cents.

Don

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