I just saw a new broadhead on 3rivers site that is $125 per 3. I would love to know how many are sold.
http://www.3riversarchery.com/schmeisser+archery+broadhead+one_i5267X_baseitem.html
Bout 29.25 for 6 Deltas...... :D
Broad heads, at least for the deer hunting that I do, simply are not worth this price. Perhaps some, especially those going after the big, tough, and dangerous game, may find it worth the cost, but I just don't see it.
With amount of game that has been taken with broadheads like Bear, Ace, Magnus, Z-Delta just to name a few I would think $125 for 3 is a bit much. I'll stick with the proven standards. Heck I have bought good used bows for $125.....lol
Team them up with Grizzly stick shafts and some high end feathers / inserts etc and we are at about. . $60 per arrow ? I hunt from the ground in a marsh. Each shot is very likely lost in the stuff. No thanks.
CHuckC
I love he grizzly heads, but they are pushing $50 for a half dozen. I'm thinking next purchase will be going back to zwickeys for deer hunting and save my grizzlys for the next time I go elk hunting. Both are just as accurate and will easily penetrate a deer. All but 1 of my deer have been killed with zwickey or grizzly heads.
The best shooting bow for me (a 66 bear kodiak) that I have ever owned, I bought for $135 last year. I have owned several $1,000 bows that can't touch it for the combination of performance and shootability. If the cheap bow fits, use it.
Maybe its maturity (This is my 43rd year of hunting with a recurve) but my attitude has changed considerably on what I need to spend to hunt. That covers all equipment not just heads or bows.
That is getting kind of crazy! I thought my German Kinetic heads were expensive!
I don't know how many they sell, but if it is not enough, they will either lower the price or stop production.
Bisch
And we pick on wheely guys and their money spending spree's! Trad. archery is catching right up in the gimmick market, and fast.
Wheely guys don't have anything on us, IMHO. I spend way more on Trad stuff than I ever did for a compound. I'm not into techie stuff anyway. Give me Zwickey's or Ribtecs and I am a happy camper.
That's a lot of dough for a broadhead that,according to them works great as long as "it is in one piece"
The screw-in part must be made of GOLD!
QuoteOriginally posted by kennym:
Bout 29.25 for 6 Deltas...... :D
x2 !!
Not sure where my cut-off is, but for sure, $40 plus per head is on the wrong side of it.
that's insane.. man some people over think this hunting stuff.
I'm not gonna use em. Like my Stingers too much, and GK'S are cheaper. But I can't help but think some of the folks who will criticize these heads will also not bat an eye spending 200, 300 or 600+ on a fancy custom knife, so tell me, what's the difference? Some folks drive a Malibu, others a Benz.
I draw the line at anything other than my Grizzly Kodiaks. Great design and construction and all at a fair price. Plus they are sponsors AND Bill and Tracy are just plain nice folks.
Seems pretty crazy to me, especially if you read their description .... always nice to know your farrel will "snap" before it bends ???
I have killed moose and elk with a two blade Magnus that cost about $26 for 6 at the time. I have had only one broadhead fail on me in all my years of hunting, it happened shooting an elk and it was a satelite with replaceable blades. The farrel broke right at the end of my arrow, that was back in the mid 80's.
I know everything has gone up in cost. The steel price, the cost of electric to machine them, cutter costs for the mills, etc... but I hate paying $30 for 3 Woodsman heads. $10/head average seems steep. I don't know. But then bow prices have risen the same too. Everything seems to go up but the paychecks. Wish that would grow too so I could get more bows and broadheads ;)
I about coughed up a lung getting a dozen cutthroats. I can't imagine a better head at any price!
All about being tough, not much for design, and it is going to be tricky to glue on. I should get 6 of them to go with my Alaskans. On those tapered carbons I would not ever have to worry about the ferrule breaking because they would never get shot. I cannot pick a spot when all I can see is dollar signs flying away.
P T Barnum said that there is a sucker born every minute. That is why there are $40 broadheads.
Well I wouldn't fault anytime for using them but heck no! I've stuck with heads that run in the $5 a piece
Some people when given the choice, will buy the most expensive of anything....
I live near a resort mountain town where this is displayed daily. There are alot of Americans with more money than sense. :)
Too pricey for a poor boy like me. :eek: For that kind of scratch, they'd have to help with the dragging.
I'll stick with my original Woodsman's. They've treated me good for years, and at least for the time being, they aren't super expensive.
Bob
QuoteOriginally posted by GreyGoose:
Not sure where my cut-off is, but for sure, $40 plus per head is on the wrong side of it.
You bet!
broadhead prices are getting just plain rediculous.. dont need to pay 40.00 a head to kill anything..they are just playing up to people who think that the best always cost more..
I will just stick with my 185gr. grizzlies.
Bill
I want to try them for sure, just waiting on one of you fellas to buy them for me. To each his own. :readit:
Barbed head like that is illegal in Alberta so not even an option here...I will buy some ABowyer damascus heads as a kind of novelty due to my nickname...and even a 53 dollar broadhead is inexpensive if it works its magic on a big bull elk
DDave
I am going to spend 300 bucks of a kitchen knife because I want...you pays ur money and you takes ur choice
DDave
Way too much for me on principle alone..lol.
I can't see how a broadhead could be worth that kind of money. Cutthroats are much cheaper and seem pretty much bomb proof, and it still hurts to drop the money on them.
Some people must have more money than sense.
QuoteOriginally posted by Pointer:
Way too much for me on principle alone..lol.
One well known company took the price of their heads from $35 to over $40 for three in one year. I wish I could jump my rates like that. I'm out, don't care how good I thought the head was.
It was the principle. :mad:
made to snap instead of bend???IMO an odd feature to put in the plus column!
how wide is it?----is it stainless--high carbon???-how thick is it??--I like less mystery in my heads and a person can spend they're money any way they want--seems somewhat sketchy to me?!?!?!
Their purchase is 100% optional. Don't understand why what they charge would be an issue for anyone not interested.
QuoteOriginally posted by damascusdave:
Barbed head like that is illegal in Alberta so not even an option here...I will buy some ABowyer damascus heads as a kind of novelty due to my nickname...and even a 53 dollar broadhead is inexpensive if it works its magic on a big bull elk
DDave
That head is not barbed???????
Bisch
I can build a dozen really nice woodies with razor sharp Zwickies on the front of all 12 for that much $
Out of my league. Even what's out there seems high to me most days. That's why I went looking for a cheaper option, but you already know about that. Any day now...
Jeez TRAP where is your adventure? You call the right place and get 12 perfect to nearly perfect cedar or fir shafts for 40 some bucks, a dozen Zwickies for 40 some bucks, another ten for feathers and glue, what do have? An arrow that fits you and your bow, a broadhead that flies good, is easy to mount and sharpen and will kill anything it hits in the kill zone. All you have left to do is get in the right spot at the right time and make the shot.
To each his own.Too pricey for me. Too many animals have fallen to---------heads for me to shell out that much.
3 for $30 is as high as I want to go.
Really cant think of any animal that would require more BH than a VPA 3 blade or Tuffhead has to offer.
It's all about availability... as long as I can find what I like for less than that, then I won't spend that on a head.
I couldn't find the features I wanted in a cheaper watch, so I paid a little more for one.
As long as stingers are available at their current price point, I won't be spending more than that!
Some folk thrive on bragging rights, the more money spent the better they think the product will be. $40 broadheads or a $1500 recurve bow both fall into the same category.
That's a poorly designed head, also...being too abrupt in the way it widens to be of much use on anything but a perfect shot.
I have bought up every old stock grizzly I can...and now have a two lifetime supply of them...for about 2 dollars a head I figure. I get them so sharp I'm afraid to handle them...and they never fail...never. Hard to argue with that.
Zuwikies(mis-spell) are cheaper and better in my book, killed a lot of deer with them old school heads..
Inflated price..... poorly designed.... no thanks
I wouldn't choose those, but for reasons other than the price.
If I could get my favorite bow for $200 vs. $1,500-2,000 I would grab it. Has nothing to do with "bragging rights". I would never accuse those who buy this expensive head of doing so for any other reason than they like the head and their passion is worth it too them. Oh, and they can afford it.
I too was taken aback by the bent ferrule comment in the description. They should focus on the toughness of the blade not the difference in same of the ferrule and the blade. I suppose a lot of broached ferrules would bend before the blade would but...