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Rage Issue!...some results to ponder.

Don't blame the broadhead. I shot through the humerous (leg bone) of a 2.5 year old buck last year with a Rage 3 blade. The arrow still had enough energy to go through both lungs and the heart, and an off-side rib. It lodged in the hide on the far side. I didn't get as much of a bloodtrail as if I had a passthrough, but I didn't expect to when I saw him run off with the fletchings in his side. He only made it 43 paces. And if he had gone farther, it would not have been the broadhead's fault, but mine for hitting his leg.

By the way, after going through the leg bone and a rib, the Rage 3 blade was still straight and sharp enough to keep using.

Another FWIW, I am not a Rage fanatic. I killed deer with NAP Scorpions (cut on contact mechanicals) in 2007 and 2008, killed two bucks with Rage 3 blades in 2009, and one with a NAP Hellrazor (solid steel fixed blade) this year. Rage are great broadheads; so are lots of others.

Sometimes we lose a deer, but the broadhead is the least likely reason for it. Shooter error, wind/branch, fletching, deer jumping the string, anatomical anomalies, food/intestines/food plugging the whole, bumping the deer before it bleeds out, etc. are much more likely/significant causes for a lost deer.

Blaming an unrecovered broadhead or bullet for a lost deer is like blaming a murder on a random person picked by chance from the phonebook. Sure, it's possible you are right, but you have no reasonable basis whatsoever for the accusation and are probably dead wrong. You can't possibly determine the cause without seeing the broadhead and/or the body.
 
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Also in the scapula, or shoulder blade, there exists a RIDGE. It is TOUGH and THICK. VERY difficult to penetrate even with KE's being upwards of 65 lbs.

Where the scapula and Humerus meet, as well as the elbow where the upper leg bone and humerus meet, there are BALL SOCKETS that WILL stop a VERY heavy KE arrow.

So the bottom line is that even though we sometimes think we make good hits, we don't know for sure unless we have either video OR the recovered deer.

I have BOTH!

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Ditto . I have hit a few deer in the shoulder "ridge" area with different broadheads over the years and have gotten very little penetration . These deer did survive as witnessed by later sightings .
There are areas of the shoulder that a broadhead will penetrate , however a shoulder shot is risky with a bow .
 
One more point about the Rage heads. Make no mistake, these are GREAT heads. But they are DEFINITELY NOT the ONLY GREAT heads out there. In fact, IMO, they are WAYYYY over priced.

ANY SUPER sharp broadhead that hits the right spot (i.e.-heart/lung or major artery ((lucky!!)) will kill deer effectively. The advantage of the Rage is it might buy you a little more "effective area". Logically a 10 inch hole through a deer has a betterchance of killin a deer as a 2 inch hole has a better chance than a 1 inch hole.

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