Zwickey single bevel No Mercy

[SuperK]

I was just wondering if anybody has taken any big game with one yet?  Has anybody read if Dr. Ashby has tested them yet?  Just wondering if they performed as well as expected.  Thanks

[Trad Man 25]

SuperK,, i was in Africa this summer,, and i took 7 Animals with the No Mercy Bh's,, but these were the double beveled,, and i never hit any bone that they could not go straght throught ,,  so never needed to get out the single bevel,,   ))

James

[Dr. Ed Ashby]

Lee, I did some testing on the single-bevel No Mercy year. Due to the back problem, I haven't even started to enter or collate this year's data, but the No Mercy's bend rate is about identical to the Eskimo, or the Magnus 2; i.e. each bends not infrequently on oblique heavy-bone impacts. There's a bit on the Magnus 2 in the latest 2007 Update; already posted here on TG. Whenever they retain structural integrity the SB No Mercy does show good bone-splits; something no double-beveled heads shows.

Ed
TGMM Family of the Bow

[Mudd]

"each bends not infrequently on oblique heavy-bone impacts" I assume this means that they do in fact frequently bend?
Thanks!
God bless,Mudd

[SuperK]

Thanks Dr. Ashby; I pray your back gets better.

[Dr. Ed Ashby]

Roy, on my scale "not infrequently" is less than "usually" and a bit less than "frequently". Sort of means that they do sometimes bend when I don't think they should have, and will generally bend on the shots that I expect is going to bend anything except those that are strong enough to make my "best braodheads" group.

Of course you have to consider that, to be a "best" broadhead I think it should rarely every bend on any impact with any animal tissues, from any impact angle. The top of my scale, the "best of the best" are those that "have shown no bends on any shot into any tissues of any animal", i.e. they have shown total structural integrity in all tissues from all shot angles.

In simple terms, I think that a few folks are going to have bends with the No Mercy on oblique heavy-bone impacts, even on whitetails. On perpendicular and near perpendicular heavy-Bone impacts I had no bends with the No Mercy; and I expect that MOST folks will find the same result.

Ed
TGMM Family of the Bow