What are the largest fixed 2 blade broadheads (length and width, not neccessarily weight) out there, vintage thru current? Just a curiousity thing mostly, as I'm assuming the large deadhead has to be one of them and is a good example of a large head that doesn't really weight a lot
Simmons tree sharks.....2 inches wide....flying hatchets
Centaur Battle ax.
I forgot about the battle ax....2 and 1/8 wide
Forgot about the simmons, those centaurs are pretty cool. Any others? Older ones?
German Kinetic DS 1 7/8" wide!
Bisch
The DS is cool looking, but at $250 for a set of three, they better come with a helper to gut, skin and load the animal too!
Those wide blades look great but I wonder if they impede penetration.
I soot a 50 Savannah and was thinking about the tree sharks at one time.
However I wonder if Id get a good pass thru?
Simmons makes one that is longer and not as wide as the tree shark too I believe. Some of these definitely seem to go against Ashby's findings, but then again there are a lot of pics with dead animals out there from all these. To each his own I guess.
A well sharpened tree shark will blow through anything. I read online about a guy that hunts elk with them exclusively out of a 50lb bow and has gotten pass throughs on every one. Me, personally, Ive killed deer, bear, and pigs with them and have always gotten great penetration with a 50lb bow and 600 grain arrow. The one that sticks out is the bear I killed a few years ago. About a 200lb sow. I shot her while she was coming down a tree. The arrow entered just in front of her back leg, passed lengthwise through her body, existed her sternum bone and stuck in the tree she was climbing down.
Before that, I had one pass through both scapulas of a young buck and bury in the dirt. Unbelievable heads! I think they can compensate for a poor shot in a lot of cases and my initial thinking was that you are much more likely to hit a critter in the liver or guts than bone thats heavy enough to stop the head, but I havent found a bone yet that they wont penetrate.
I had great success with the Tree Shark on will boar but I had no penetration in steep angles. 57# recurves 630 grs arrow.
Shoulder blades are very difficult to pass on Big boars.
QuoteOriginally posted by Highlandwarrior:
The DS is cool looking, but at $250 for a set of three, they better come with a helper to gut, skin and load the animal too!
When I bought mine, I got them straight from DS for about $60/3. There was only one run of them made. They were custom made for DS.
Bisch
Yup, but if you can find them now, that's what they are going for apparently. At least the ones on "the bay" right now are anyway
Bisch is right...they are now made in China and not the same!!! Sold the company and the new company moved production to China. Silver Flames are really a thing of the past. They are NOT what German Kinetics made!!!
Pretty sure those 3, and those are the only ones up, are original DS's