With so many reccomendations and opinions on broadhead weights, I am curious as to what most of you are shooting.
What is the broadhead weight you most often use?
Is that weight with or without adaptors included?
Straight shafts,
Chuck
Seems like everytime I need a screw in BH it's always 175gr for some reason.
Glue ons I like a 145.
Most used are 130-160 grain two-blade glue ons.
I have used the 125gr. screw in snuffer for a long time. Always gets the job done for me.
160 grains, glue-on.
I use 100 grain with a 50 grain brass adapter.
I have always prefered the heavier (145+) heads, but this year I traded for some 125 screw in Snuffers and took out the threaded inserts to come up with 100 grain heads. They fly like darts, and total arrow weight is right around 550 grains. So I figure why mess with it if it is working good. I'm anxious to see how they perform this season.
a Delta with a 100 gr. steel adaptor
150 gr broadhead and 50-100 grain brass insert depending on the arrow.
up until a week ago it was 160 gr and now its 125gr I am switching heads for the season.
175 grain screw in.
125 with a 100 grain brass insert
My buddy is suggesting that I use a Stoss 160 gr. 2-blade. Said he had a super clean pass through last year! So I think I might just try 'em!
160 snuffer glue on.....
125 magnus glue on with the one piece glue in broadhead adapter that is basically the same weight as the screw in adapter insert
160gr without adapter love my magnus heads.
For my 37# recurve, I use the STOS 130 grain and for my 42# recurve, I use the STOS 145 grain.
300 Xtremes and 200 gr razor caps. 100 gr brass inserts in my AD Trads.
150 gr. two blade stinger with a 50 gr. insert weight
Right now, 160 on woodies, 260 on carbon (160 bh, 100 steel adaptor). Either STOS or Magnus I's.
2 blade glue on's 160 STOS,
Screw in's
150 WW's or
150 Stingers
It seems that the heavier the head, the better my arrows shoot. For many years, I shot glue on 160's as they were about the heaviest available. Now that heavier broadheads are becoming available, I'm moving heavier. My last kill was with a 190 Terminator on a Sitka Spruce shaft with 50 grains of lead up the nose. Total arrow weight was 620 gr with a 21% FOC.
160 grain glue on for wood shafts.
160 grain glue on plus adapter for aluminum shafts.
I have ordered some heavier adapters, and some heavier broadheads that I will be tinkering with.
160 & 190 griz
125 grain here
Well, this is tough, depends on the bow...
175 grain 2-blades out of about half of my bows... So, probably the one used most of the time.
200 grain 3-blades out of a couple
260 grain 2-blades out of most all of my "heavy weight" bows (65# plus...)
125 grain 2 and 3 blades out of one bow...
zwickey delta on long solid aluminum adapter
175 grain i would like to use steel adapters but i cant get it to tune like i want with them
175 grain thinking about 150 grain
150 grain broadhead with 100 grain brass insert
160 gn STOS and 175 gn Abowyer, both glue ons.
200 gr Grizzlies,350 grs with adapter and extra weight.
160grn snuffers
125 glue on eskimos for my selfbow and 200 grain grizzlys with 100 grain adapters (total weight 300) for my laminated longbows.
Travis
I've tried 125-175 gr heads and I can never make up my mind. So this year I'm splitting the difference and gouing with a 150 gr head.
Use gt screw in weights behind std. insert, so I can adjust the weight down the shaft. Shooting
125gr. and 200gr. broadheads.
160 gr Grizzly's or Snuffers Glue on for Woods
160 gr Grizzly's glue on w/ 125 gr steel adapter(285 gr total BH weight) on carbons.
With the carbons I also have 100 gr brass inserts, so you couls say there is 385 gr up front. Total arrow weight is 678 gr w/ EfoC at 28%
Mike
125gr. - 150gr.
Even when I was shooting compound I tended to like the 125gr. heads for their flight.
My carbon Gold Tips have a 125gr. Woodsman w/ a 10gr. weight adapter & a 12gr. 1" piece of 2117 footer & they fly gerat for me.
My aluminum 2114's have 150gr. Snuffers on em.
125 gr. WW
175gr. woodsman
300gr only weight I shoot.
200 gr. Ace
175
145 total.. Zwickey two blade with adapter.
200 grain Muzzy Phantoms with 100 grain inserts.
On my carbon arrows I use 125gr broadheads with brass adapters to build up to about 220gr. I do this so I can use 125gr judo points with the same arrows I deer hunt with. On my woodies I use 200gr Ace Super Express.
well i guess i had to be the odd ball, i shoot less than 50lbs. draw weight, and have been shooting 100gr. for 10 years. they fly good for me, and my other reason is i shoot three under, look down my shaft and it is dead on anywhere from 0 to 25yds. i would like to have more forward weight, and if anyone can tell me what to do i would give it a try. :archer2:
Thanks for all the replies guys. I figured most would fall between 145-160 grain heads, but I am surprised at how many are shooting much heavier heads than that. Interesting.
95% of the time - 175 grains - since the mid 80s.
That is normally a long aluminum adapter and a Zwickey Delta 4 blade making the 175 grains.
odd ball #2 - shooting 100gr screw in.
I use 125 grain multi-blade heads with a 50 grain brass insert which makes 175 grains up front.
160gr gule ons
175 woodsmen elite, they are quiet as a mouse.
200 screw in. I like the weight up front and I can swap my BH's with 200 gr hex or hammer heads whenever.
And I cannot get anymore weight up front on my CE 350s. If I could, I would go with another 50 or 100 gr inserts and stick with the 200 gr heads.
I use 2 blade magnus 125 gr.
I'll be using Ace 160gr. standard broadheads for this season.
Right now, 160 on woodies(snuffers), will be 260 on carbons (160 bh, 100 steel adaptor) Snuffers and 300 grs BigJim broadheads
F-Manny
I use 125 gr Stingers with 100 gr brass inserts with my carbons and 160 gr STOS with my woods.
135 zwickey.
150 gr Razorcap along with 75 gr adapter
125 thunderheads also have some 100 grain.
175 grain with 50 grain brass adapters....
David
150 gr. no weight added
Been using 250 grain for a few years now
150gr. screw in
Bill
160 grain STOS glue on with wood and with 42 gr. adapters on carbon
175 gr razorcaps
100 gr snuffer + 75 gr steel apapter
145 stos 75 gr adapters---50lb bow at my draw length--28ins
250gr total.
Nothing lighter than 125 have gone as high as 400 It just depends on my current setup and game I'm chasing.If you can make it work IMHO high FOC=penatration.