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pety221

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Have come to a conclusion ! Shot a doe opening day with a rage never found any blood at all arrow made a pass thru. Never found the deer or anymore blood. Shot one saturday morning spine shot. Doe never went nowere but vroad head broke off at the threads. Will have my slick tricks. In my quiver this weekend. To costly. To be buying them like that
 
Maybe your shot placement was poor? After killing a slew of deer with the 2 blade Rage and seeing the results, your story baffles me!
 
richmanbarbeque said:
Every deer is different every shot is different. Glad I had a rage Saturday morning.
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Rich is right, every shot has it's own quirks. I have not shot the Rage, but many do and are satisfied. I shot a doe last Wednesday with a slick trick and got not blood trail, punctured both lungs and took out the top of the heart. Deer was graveyard dead 35 yards into a thicket. I think both are good broadheads, The slick trick had no damage, I will replace the blades and use it again. Every situation is different, after I couldn't find blood I questioned my shot but placement was perfect. Just one of those things.
 
I've heard a lot of reports about guys losing deer with the Rage, blades break off, one doe shot last week dead center rib cage and whole arrow passed through like a field point.
 
I have shot 2 deer with rage 2 blade this year. None were pass throughs. Broke both arrows and bent blades on the rages. I bought some slick tricks 100 magnums yesterday.
 
I have shot two with rage 3 blades this year and no complaints, heavy blood trails, no broken blades and powerfull pass throughs. I think some folk are just shooting bows that are not fast enough or there arrows are two light to carry the kinetic energy through the deer but that just my opinion.
 
TN444PSD said:
I have shot two with rage 3 blades this year and no complaints, heavy blood trails, no broken blades and powerfull pass throughs. I think some folk are just shooting bows that are not fast enough or there arrows are two light to carry the kinetic energy through the deer but that just my opinion.
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i shoot in the 280's fps and use maxima 350 arrows. i would think it would be a passthru at 13yds or the deer was wearing a bulletproof vest. :D
 
I'll never blame a broadhead for a poor hit . Guys expect Rage broadheads to perform miracles . Shot placement is everything.
 
Every shot and deer is different. If you are going to shoot the rage then you need to be packing the energy to do it. There is no comparison between these two heads, they are completly different. One is a large cutting expandable and the other is a small cut fixed blade both are great heads but for deer Ill shoot the rage all day. Bigger animals I would take the slicks just for more penetration.
 
Let's put it this way if a hoyt cybertec shooting 291fps with a 29in axis that's 9grn a inch should b nuff to open it fully. Don't care how u look at it
 
pety221 said:
Let's put it this way if a hoyt cybertec shooting 291fps with a 29in axis that's 9grn a inch should b nuff to open it fully. Don't care how u look at it
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You might want to shoot out of a tree into a target and make sure where your broadheads are hitting. One a spine shot and the other one who knows where it hit.
 
I haven't shot a Rage personally, but I';ve noticed that lots of the videos of guys shooting Rage the deer run off with the arrow sticking out the side. Of course, you can't tell from a video where the arrow actually hit and if it hit sholder onthe back side, but of all the deer I've hit with Thunderheads and Slicktricks they've all been passthroughs except two spine shots.

I count this one as a non-passthrough, even though the deer dropped like a sack and never got up.

 
If there wasn't a pass through would you wish you had the slick tricks on instead of the rage? With the mechanicals seem like they wouldn't do as much cutting while the animal is running with the broadhead in it. With the fixed broadhead seems like it would still be doing a lot of damage while the animal was running if there was no pass through. IMO. You guys are correct though it all depends on shot placement and every shot is different.
 
I have shot and killed deer with both. Why people continue to argue over this topic is silly. I have both broadheads in my quiver and depending on my mood will shoot either one. Both kill deer if I put the arrow where it belongs in the deer. If I screw up or the deer reacts and a bad shot is made then I have to have the experience and patience to be a tracker and finish the hunting cycle.

More deer is lost from hunters that lack experience tracking than what can be blaimed on equipment.
 

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