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Main Boards => PowWow => Topic started by: DW on July 04, 2008, 12:50:00 AM
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What do Yall think?????? I know Chris (Landshark160) has taken some animals with one of these so maybe he'll chime in.. I'm not completely sold on single bevels mainly because I prefer 3 or 4 blades but this thing looks cool...... (http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k209/rickybob_2006/CIMG2236.jpg) (http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k209/rickybob_2006/CIMG2237.jpg)
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Looks great. Where'd you get it?
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Don, I killed 3 deer and a hog with those this past season, but I never did hit a shoulder blade. That is about the only thing I worry about not shooting through to begin with. What I did seem to notice, and it could be imagining it, was I seemed to be getting less penetration than normal on soft tissue hits. The first deer was broadside at 10 yards. I normally stick it in the dirt on the other side on those shots, but the arrow only penetrated up to the fletching. That kinda had me concerned. I usually get pass throughs on 75% of my shots, but I failed to get a pass through on any of the 4 critters I shot with the single bevel. Not saying it doesn't work, I just don't think it works well with this blade profile. I've since gone back to the double bevel version.
If you haven't read it, Dr. Ashby has a good write up about it in his last report. I believe it starts around page 22.
http://www.tradgang.com/ashby/2007update5.pdf