Has anyone had a bad experience with Rage broadheads? I'm thinking of switching to the 2 bladed rage next year and all I have heard is good things.
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Has anyone had a bad experience with Rage broadheads? I'm thinking of switching to the 2 bladed rage next year and all I have he
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Click my name and look in my pic file at the wound a Rage 2 blade made on a doe. The archery guy at Cabelas put me on to them. He said there was some problems with the 3 blade not always opening. I understand that has been fixed. But I have had excellent luck with the 2 blade so am not switching. Yes they are high but still cheap compared to overall cost of archery gear. The blades sometimes unlock in the quiver. I can deal with that by being careful. They are very accurate, cause huge bloodtrails and very, very deadly. What more do you need?
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I hate to be the bearer of bad news. I know Rage broadheads can make big holes in deer but there is more to it. If you have a quartering shot where you hit the back rib to take it out behind the shoulder the Rage will deflect off the skin and change the angle of the shot. A fixed blade with go straight through where you want it. If you hit bone with a Rage you may break off the blades where a fixed blade are more durable. You lose kinectic energy with mechanical broadheads so fixed blade penetration is much greater. Rage broadheads will open at the slightest touch of twig before or after a shot changing the flight of the arrow.
Last but not lease they are so darn expensive you are just lining the pockets of the t.v. host who are paid to shoot them.
I've shot Rage and have killed many deer with them but I've killed a lot more with fixed blades. Stick with fixed blades.
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Over the years I lost more wounded deer with fixed blades (4) than with Rage only 1. The one I lost was a mature buck hit in the shoulder blade after the arrow ticked a branch. Tried to thread the needle with that one and it didn't work. I have seen 2 deer shot by hunters that had broadheads stuck and healed in the shoulder blade. The Rage makes a wound that bleeds like crazy which means an easy and short trail to follow.
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Del I appreciate your point but look at is this way. You do not find mechanical heads in deer because they fall out easily. Fixed blades will remain in the body grinding up the vitals.
I could post a laundry list of animals I've shot with fixed blades that have gone less than 30 yards, bear, elk, muley and that 195 incher in the picture to the left. I rarely have a whitetail that does not fall within sight.
A good shot with any broadhead will kill an animal in short order but my point is there is too much that can go wrong with a mechanical. Why risk it if a fixed blade will do the trick.
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