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I know Rage or Slick tricks

Slick Tricks! Fly Great, Durable, No moving parts to worry about. They just work! That being said if you want to shoot a mechanical broadhead there are alot of folks shooting Rage. Odds are they wouldn't be shooting them if they didn't like em.
 
I've never tried the Rage, mostly because I have three brothers that tried them and two of them went back to fixed blades. The Rage is awesome on good hits, but I've heard of enough people going away from them to make me not want to risk anything.

I've shot a couple deer with Slick Tricks and a couple with Striker G5, and the results were very similar. I believe this was from a G5, but the SlickTrick was very similar. Get a strong BH that hits where you aim, and take good shots to the right spots, and the results will be great.

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BTW, the deer isn't that tiny; my hand is actually quite a few inches above the deer's hide.

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Thats a good question mine are always open in my quiver i just fix them when i put them on the string.
 
I like G5 Strikers a little better than my Slick Tricks . They fly the same , but the Strikers are sharper and have a stronger ferrule than my Slick Tricks.
 
A.Hall said:
tickweed said:
Rage are a problem, especially when the O rings start to dry rot, which doesn't take long.
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After reading your post, went and checked the "O" rings on 5 Rages that are over 3 years old and the "O" rings are fine as they show no sign of rot. The blades are still locked in a Kwikee quiver
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Well ,if they are over three years old, then you are very lucky. Check most of the broadhead reviews, and opening in the quiver, as well as in flight, plus o-rings going bad are the most common complaints. Not just going by the reviews, our group tried them in Illinois, Kansas, Iowa, Ohio, Tn., and we all just decided its not worth the risk . The truth about mechanicals is that most are designed to have very little air resistance, which leads to better accuracy, especially for bows that may not be tuned properly. What ever anyone shoots, I don't care. Yes, they make big entry holes, but when you have a larger cutting surface, it takes away from peneration. Rage seem to be decent, but the truth of the matter is they sink more into big name advertisement than any other broad head, so that's probably why such high prices. If you like them, great, we all have different opinions. I am only speaking from the experience's we have had with them. Not trying to argue with you, Just not the best for me.
 
tickweed said:
A.Hall said:
tickweed said:
Rage are a problem, especially when the O rings start to dry rot, which doesn't take long.
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After reading your post, went and checked the "O" rings on 5 Rages that are over 3 years old and the "O" rings are fine as they show no sign of rot. The blades are still locked in a Kwikee quiver
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Well ,if they are over three years old, then you are very lucky. Check most of the broadhead reviews, and opening in the quiver, as well as in flight, plus o-rings going bad are the most common complaints. Not just going by the reviews, our group tried them in Illinois, Kansas, Iowa, Ohio, Tn., and we all just decided its not worth the risk . The truth about mechanicals is that most are designed to have very little air resistance, which leads to better accuracy, especially for bows that may not be tuned properly. What ever anyone shoots, I don't care. Yes, they make big entry holes, but when you have a larger cutting surface, it takes away from peneration. Rage seem to be decent, but the truth of the matter is they sink more into big name advertisement than any other broad head, so that's probably why such high prices. If you like them, great, we all have different opinions. I am only speaking from the experience's we have had with them. Not trying to argue with you, Just not the best for me.
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Good post, Tickweed . I couldn't agree more !
 
Crow Terminator said:
The Tricks are probably one of the best fixed blades currently available. They are pretty sharp out of the pack; probably one of the sharpest out of the pack broadheads you can buy. They fly like darts out of super fast setups too.

The Rage heads are pretty good too. They are probably by far the most popular mechanical head. They endorse a lot of "pro hunters" and pass the cost on to you. The Rocky Mtn Snyper is the same broadhead but was much cheaper.

With all that said...I've been getting all the archery catalogs in the mail as of lately: Keystone, Lancaster, etc. And I've noticed one thing in broadheads....there just ain't a lot out there for 75-85 grain heads! Most everything is 100 or 125. I'm in dire search of a good 75-85 grain head with pretty good cutting dia.

Here is a Rage ENTRANCE hole in a deer I killed this past season.
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I think most people lose deer due to bad shot placement rather than broadhead failure, IMO. If you never recovered the deer, than you don't know "for sure" where you hit it. Think of it this way...how many deer have you recovered that you swore up and down was a "double lunger" or perfect hit...only to find you didn't hit it exactly where you thought you did. Same thing goes for the ones you don't recover...that "perfect shot" may not have been so perfect and the blame in archery always goes to the broadhead. Shooting through a Tennessee deer is like shooting through a wet paper bag. Our deer just ain't as thick coated, fat, or heavy bone structured as the northern/midwestern counterparts. Our average mature doe here is about 80-100 lbs. And up there, they might be pushing 200.

So it don't take much to zip through our deer and stick in the ground on the other side. Heck, my wife's bow is just a 26" draw bow at 42 pounds. She zipped a Gold Tip 3555 with 85 grain Trick plum through a good sized deer last year at 25 yds. I was a little worried at first about her not getting good penetration with that low of poundage but she made a believer out of me.
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Crow,

I still have some Muzzy's in the ol' quiver b/c I have killed several deer with them.

However, I am upgrading to the rage's. Just had to many folk refering me to them, and not hearing much if anything negative about them.

I didn't realize the Mrs. killed one last year? Pics???!!!!
 
Both are great heads. I am shooting Rage but may shoot Grim Reapers just for giggles! lol
 
I disagree with the last statement. When I was hunting with the Rage heads, they always came loose in my quiver. My quiver is a Quickee Combo that holds 4 arrows. No foam in it. It's wide open in there.

My broadheads were brand new too. Here is what happens: The blades have a little notch in them that in the closed position, allows the O ring to go up and down into the notch. This is what holds them closed. Well the notch isn't very deep and it don't take much for the O ring to slide out and the blades come open. I'm talking about just the ride to your hunt site or walk from your truck to your stand. Every time I got up in the tree and selected an arrow I would have to put the blades back in place.

Tikka -- There are better broadheads out there for the money. I'm not saying they aren't a decent head, but I'm pretty sure better can be found for a little bit less. I'm going to be shooting the Grim Reapers this year. If you shop around you can find those for about $30 a pack, vs the Rages at $40 a pack everywhere you look.
 
I remember my first bow season ever last year and I was shooting the Rage. I whacked my first bow deer ever and there were deer all around me. I was shaking badly from excitement and nocked another arrow.

The thump from nocking the second arrow caused the blades to deploy and my shaky hands required me to move around a lot to fix the blades. This scared the other deer away from my area.

I had great results with the two deer I harvested last year with a bow. I used Rage both times, but the blades deploying in the quiver and anytime I need to renock quickily is an annoyance.

I am now shooting 85 grain tips so I will be using Grim Reaper this season. Over the top expandable but much better all around reviews than the Rage.
 
I looked at the Montec T13 heads today and they look pretty wicked. I shoot the rage 2 blade myself and have never had much of a problem with them.
 

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