Whitetail shoulder blades

This will be interesting. I used to shoot the havocs, still have one left I believe and now shoot the G5 T3s. Be curious to see how the G5 products do.

I'm still a firm believer in the old standard NAP Thunderheads. Used them for years, went to Muzzy for a while, and went back to TH 125 gr the last several years.

I've read a number of "tests" of penetration and durability on various collections of BH's, but have yet to see one that included the old favorites as a basis for comparison. IMO, that old TH 125 will stand up to any of he youngsters in the field. The tips are VERY hard and come to a small point that can be touched up with a stone easily to offer minimal resistance to entry, but are extremely resistant to the curling that afflicts many COC heads. The blades are strong and hold up well in my summer practice sessions shooting into the ground, and seem to have the right balance of hardness and toughness to hold a shaving edge while resisting serious damage.

I hurried a shot on a young buck once while walking in to the stand for the evening hunt, and the string hit my arm and sent the shot off-course, hitting the deer in the hip. I felt terrible, expecting a difficult trailing job and iffy recovery, but as I watched, the buck trotted away at first then slowed to a walk, and laid down! I waited a few seconds, then began slowly slipping in for a second shot. After several seconds, I saw that his head was down. Checked with the binoculars and saw that his sides weren't moving. Sure enough, when I reached him he was done!

Saw the reason when I skinned him. The BH had penetrated one side of the pelvic girdle, cut the femoral artery, and buried to almost the back edge of the blades in the off side! I was shooting a 70# Oneida at the time and 2219 arrows that weighed 585 grains total, so they had the KE and momentum to hunt about anything that walks in North America, but that BH was tough enough to get it done even when I messed up and hit probably the solidest hunk of bone in the deer. And a few years later, when I was kinda shot on cash and was getting ready for another deer season, I dug that BH out of that pelvic bone and sharpened up the blades and touched up the point very lightly to restore it to its original condition and hunted with it again. For my money, they are still the best of the bunch, or so close it'd be a photo finish.

I even put one on the crossbow bolt I was sighting in this year. It flew perfectly and was dead center at 30 yards, so I'll be using one again if I ever get to the woods this year.

slick trick original and the hypodermic +p or standard hypo

You might ck internet b 4 you take all that time and money. There was a guy how did all these test on blades shot them into diff things to see how they held up etc. I havent seen it for a few years.

Time and money arent a concern. Ive seen tons of videos on broadheads but the only way to know how my setup performs is to do it myself

Any update on this thread yet? Very curious as to what you will be finding out.