Mechanical broadheads.....

[cb750]

I've been looking at the Rage's and noticed they have specific turkey mechanical. I am relatively new to this. Is that just a marketing ploy or is there much of a difference. I understand that its preferable to have the arrow stay in the bird to prevent flight but will the regular Rages work just as well?

[Oppie]

I've been looking at the Rage's and noticed they have specific turkey mechanical. I am relatively new to this. Is that just a marketing ploy or is there much of a difference. I understand that its preferable to have the arrow stay in the bird to prevent flight but will the regular Rages work just as well?

I'm not sure what the real difference is but I whacked a gobbler at 15 yds with a 2 blade rage and the arrow was never seen again

"2.25" cut. The steep angle of the blades minimizes pass-throughs aiding in the recovery of your bird".
Yea right!

[paulaboutform]

Bowhunter1, the Hammerhead 4 blade was a limited run and I wish that they were produced again. The holes in deer were just huge. On my Equinox I always used two blades and added a third this year when my wife used them out of her 380 but did not get a shot off in 2013.
I placed the elastic on the blade indents.

I had settled on Rockets after much testing when I was shooting mechanicals. I thought they were the best out there at the time. That was with my compound. Now I'm all about the Toxic Broadheads...5" of cutting surface and coring out your animal=awesome! I don't know if Rocket still makes them but I also used their Buckblaster. It was a 3 blade and each blade was 2 3/4" long. Devastating!

[DuckHunt]

but that one failure sent me looking...

I had one premature opening of a Spitfire out of my Exomax. It may not have been entirely the fault of the broadhead. It wasn't banded. I would always check to make sure they were fully closed, but maybe that wasn't the case. I killed more than a half dozen deer with Spitfire heads up until that one which I did eventually recover.

Since then I have stuck with banded heads mostly. The Rocket Sidewinder and Hammerhead are my go to heads in that order. When funding is plentiful, it is hard to go wrong with Rage 3-blade heads as well. All of them fire perfectly out of my ExoMax and I've taken a number of deer with all of them with no issues.

DuckHunt