What do you guys think? I'm a BH junkie and have been pondering the idea of a 3 blade head for late urban archery and hogs.  My setup is #47 28.75in out of a Black Widow PSA V.  Arrow is a Beaman MFX Classic 500.  Thinkin about the Snuffer SS, Wensel Woodsman and a few others.  I'm currently shootin a 125gr Buzzcut.  Any other heads ya'll really like that leave some gaping holes?
Thanks, Sam

Well for deer I think you would be fine, but for hogs I would stay with a 2 blade.  47#s is kinda light for a 3 blade and hogs.

God Bless,
Nathan

I agree with bornagain.  

Sam:  Maby for a 50# pig, but for a full grown hog, stay with the 2-blade. You just gonna piss a big one off.  RW

I believe I'd stay with 2 blade at that bow weight for the piggies.

Three blade will work without a doubt, but the next one I kill will be with a two blade 160 grain Ace Standard. I just like the old school design.

Terminators or woodsmans will work.I would stay awat from snuffer ss

Snuffers always work for me

With that setup.....I think you are borderline if you run into a large shielded boar.....stick with a moderate to narrow 2 blade.

Geez, That's a tough one....For most normal sized hogs, I'd say you'd be just fine with a WW or Terminator....BUT.....(there's always a but right       )

When you're hog hunting you just never know what might show up, Like Terry said, for a big sheilded boar hog, you'd be better off with a small two blade with your light set-up.

I use 3 blade g5 heads in the carbon steel version, 55 lbs. usually blow right thru hogs, large and small.

I agree with Terry. I just shot my first large shielded boar over the weekend. It was quartering away and I went behind the shield, but that was just luck. I can't believe how tough the skin is, let alone the shield, on a mature boar.

49 @27 with a 640 grain arrow.....RC

I would not hesitate to shoot a woodsman with a heavy arrow at your draw length.RC

QuoteOriginally posted by RC:
49 @27 with a 640 grain arrow.....RC

 

Looks like that worked pretty well there, RC!

Awesome job on that pig, RC. I'd like more room for error personally, but I bow to your experience.  

Big boars are the staple game of Aussies, and we seem to favour two-bladers as a general rule. I have succeeded with three-bladers, and I have also had a catastophic failure that may not have been so with a two-blader (although I'll never know for sure). However, I do know of two or three guys who have had great success with three-bladers, although one of them seems to have decided against them in favour of two-bladers. I prefer two-bladers for the big boys.

Three blades will work with your set up but i err on the side of caution in most things and as such would opt for a well built two blade .

Like Robert said a "heavy arrow"...

a few years back i shot a pig with a 50# longbow, 535gr carbon with big snuffer up front.  at about 15+ yards i saw the arrow hit perfectly at the hog's elbow. *lots* of blood on the dirt road, hog took off into the swamps.  we tracked it good, 'til the blood thinned out a bunch and it started to rain, never found the pig.  terry found the broken back end of the arrow, which indicated there wasn't a whole lotta penetration.    

   

a year or so later i moved on to a different longbow, 55#, and upped the arrow weight to 585gr minimum, with wensels up front and higher foc.  that setup blew the entire arrow right through the mid section on the hog i killed this past june (100#+)

   

not scientific conclusions, but for me i'm sticking with higher holding weights for 3 blade wensel heads (i like that wensels and terminators are a bit narrower than snuffers) mounted on heavier arrows.  if i shot less than 55# or so, i'd wanna use a relatively narrow double bevel twin blade and as much arra weight as possible.