TV Bow hunting

[SA Friday]

Had some down-time on my hands lately and I've been watching tons of OLN during the day. There's really nothing else interesting on during mid-day unless I'm watching cartoons with my son. Ya, I like cartoons still (my bad, back to hate..)

I watch these pro/sponsored bow hunters shoot animal after animal and not achieve a pass through. I forgive Nugent's lack of pass-through since he was using a recurve, but there is absolutely no reason for the rest of them to not achieve a pass through shot if 35 yards and under and all but one was int his range with brand new compound bows, carbon arrows, bla bla bla. No pass-through.

They are all using mechanical broadheads. If a full grown adult with a modern compound bow cannot achieve a full blown pass-through on a white tail deer at 25 yards because the broadhead takes so much energy to open instead of punching through, it should NOT be used to hunt with, period.

Seriously, it isn't that fricken hard to spin tune a carbon with a quality broadhead like a NAP or Muzzy. You get 5 minutes of epoxy dry time to get it right. If not, you suck, go on to the next carbon and try again. I can get 10-12 perfectly tuned out of each dozen. I'm going to use at least 4-6 of them to practice with anyway. I know they are sponsered by these new fancy fangled mechanical broadhead companies and many are using them because of the sponsership. I could not in good conscious use their product for an ethical hunt, nor would I accept the sponsership. Of all things to ensure ethics are being taught and practiced always, hunting is in my top 5.

Ugh, just this minute the exact thing I'm talking about occurred on OLN and they didn't recover the deer on a clear heart shot (with no pass-through???). They found him a week later 200 yards away from the shot. NO OUTIE HOLE, idiot... Go buy some Muzzys you d*&ch-bag.

Edited May 1, 2009 by SA Friday

[Bigpops]

I hear ya Friday. The quote that always gets me is the "it wasn't the proper angle but I had to take the shot" as they refer to a quartering to shot. That just burns me everytime.

I tried a set of mechanicals. They tuned very nice, were easy to set up....then I lost a nice buck from a 15 yard, broadside, heart/double lung hit. Blood trail for about 40 yards and then it just quit. Needless to say the heads were tossed out. I too went back to Muzzy's. There plain tough.

[HSMITH]

I shoot mechanicals hand have NO problem getting pass through performance. The problem isn't the broadhead, the problem is the arrows. Too many people shoot light carbon arrows with light broadheads. Light arrows carry little energy. Get an arrow over 400 grains, and 500+ is even better, you too will have pass through performance with mechanical broadheads. Heavy arrows have a downside though, you need to be able to estimate range accurately if you want to shoot past about 25 yards or so. Accuracy is why I shoot mechanicals, they are more accurate than ANY fixed blade super tuned whatever broadhead out there. Add a little wind and the advantage mechanicals have increase dramatically. I have had no durability issues with mechanicals either, the Spitfire 125's I still use (I bought 18 of them and have 6 left that haven't flown yet) will penetrate 3/4" plywood at 10 feet, open fully in the plywood and not break a blade. I have done it twice. Arrows are XX78 2413 at 28", weigh 560 grains and run 275fps out of my bow.