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Title: Simmons, Centaurs legal?
Post by: 4dogs on July 01, 2013, 07:35:00 PM
Colorado regs state "Each cutting edge must be in the same plane for entire length of cutting surface" Does the shape of these broadheads make them illegal here?  I plan on calling game and fish but thought maybe someone here has already gotten the answer.
Title: Re: Simmons, Centaurs legal?
Post by: ChuckC on July 01, 2013, 08:06:00 PM
I am gonna guess that the plane that they are talking about is another story ( look up Browning serpentine).

ChuckC
Title: Re: Simmons, Centaurs legal?
Post by: old_goat2 on July 01, 2013, 09:43:00 PM
The blade is on the same plane, it's just not a straight line along that plane.
Title: Re: Simmons, Centaurs legal?
Post by: johnnyk71 on July 01, 2013, 10:22:00 PM
they must mean no spiral blades. or those circular things that showed up a while back.
Title: Re: Simmons, Centaurs legal?
Post by: creekwood on July 01, 2013, 10:56:00 PM
The points on an arc are coplanar by definition. If not, then it is a helix, in which the points do not lie in a common plane.
Title: Re: Simmons, Centaurs legal?
Post by: LittleBen on July 02, 2013, 04:57:00 PM
Yes they are in plane, a flat plane can project through the entire cutting surface. Colorado regs refer to broadheads like the crimson talon which has blades that has the tips curled over to the side.
Title: Re: Simmons, Centaurs legal?
Post by: 4dogs on July 11, 2013, 06:39:00 PM
Well so far I have talked to two different people in the division...one said legal one said not legal.   :dunno:   . They told me the best thing to do would be to contact the officer in the area I will be hunting in since he would be the one issuing the citation to see his thoughts on it. Kind of makes a guy wonder.
Title: Re: Simmons, Centaurs legal?
Post by: beachbowhunter on July 11, 2013, 06:45:00 PM
Interesting...what about single edge BHs? The cutting edges are on different but parallel planes...hmmmm...
Title: Re: Simmons, Centaurs legal?
Post by: Bob Gulliksen on July 11, 2013, 06:51:00 PM
They are legal. That reg was put in there years ago mostly for the Browning serpentine
Title: Re: Simmons, Centaurs legal?
Post by: Missouri CK on July 11, 2013, 06:57:00 PM
Leave it to the Californian and to stir the pot. :-)
Beachy...I'm going to hunt with your ole buddy Joe this fall. I need some tips from you so I can change my luck on the elk. I'm sure hunting with Joe was the biggest key so I got that covered.  :)  
I'm still waiting for you to come out to the Midwest and do some little deer hunting.
CK
Title: Re: Simmons, Centaurs legal?
Post by: Bob Gulliksen on July 11, 2013, 06:59:00 PM
In over 50 years of hunting and fishing in CO I have been checked four times and none of it was too se if I was using the right equipment.