New Broadheads

[Curtiss Cardinal]

If you really want the best broadhead testing medium you can get. Buy a goat, test the broadheads, have a BBQ.
by the way it's spelled p-e-n-e-t-r-a-t-i-o-n

[elktalker]

Found my test dumby. Not bad for a black tail

Our season opens back up on Nov 23rd this picture is about 15 yards from a new tree stand.

[Jason R. Wesbrock]

Question:

Are the new Steelforce heads stronger than the older ones? I remember shooting some of the 125-grain heads several years ago that bent in ethafoam.

[pacopperhead]

i hope u get that blacktail

[George D. Stout]

You should do well in pumpkin season.  That should be coming around soon.  $17.00 each?  Well, I'm glad the economy is doing better by the day 8^).  Those mousetraps just keep comin' and a comin'.

[elktalker]

I believe the titanium 200 grain head is a lot stronger than the 125 gr. What is ethafoam ?

[JimB]

Ethafoam looks like white styrafoam but it is not.It is flexible,I believe,is a polyethelene foam and comes in different densities like 2#,4#,6#.They used to sell cheap archery targets made out of the 6# density,app. 2" thickness X 2'X2'.I used to have one and that 2" slab used to stop aluminum arrows out of a 60# Bighorn recurve,until it got shot out.The heavier arrows I have been using lately,might be different.

You should be able to do a web search and come up with it.

[Rick P]

Elktalker

I used a bone in pork shoulder for my experiments with a Alaska bow hunting supply "samurai" vs a zwickey "Eskimo". Hogs are all butchered at about the same weight so finding matching shoulders wasn't a problem. I used food coloring to mark the bone and put one arrow through flesh only then one through flesh and bone, thus simulating real world hunting. I threw a BBQ for my freinds when testing was complete and whole pork shoulder is cheap! I also used the same method for testing the Arrow dynamics hammer head against the gold tip 5575. I was also lucky enough to have a buffalo rib section that I used as a control.

Every stamped steel blade I have tested was damaged when it hit bone, the samurai had one hit in the ridge of the scapula that very slightly rounded the tip but did not stop the broad head from fully penetrating. Both the arrow dynamics shaft and the samurai provided marked increases in penetration, as much as 60%!

Ya I know similar tests have been famously done to exacting detail but I'm a "show me" kinda guy and if I'm going to be paying more for any piece of equipment I need test results of my own to justify the expense!