Muzzy Phantom and 45lbs.

[jonsimoneau]

I have a buddy who is not on this site, but is looking for input on the idea of using a muzzy phantom broadhead...with the bleeder blades in...and a 45# recurve on midwestern whitetails.  I gotta say...the guy is a good shot, so shot placement will not be much of an issue...(he hopes!)  Anyway, does anyone have experience using this head on whitetails with a lower poundage bow?  Penetration issues?  Keep in mind that 99% of his shots will be taken from a treestand.  Thanks guys.

[Onestringer]

Your friend is fine, he will have two holes on most of his shots.

Scott

[Jake Fr]

yup must agree with onestringer

[Bow man]

My wife shoots them and she pulls 42lbs and I saw a young girl put down a 400 lb hog with them and she was shooting 40lb.

[Big Ed]

Make sure they are sharp and put-em where they need to be. Jon make sure he psot some pics on the results!!!

[Bill Carlsen]

I have posted this before so please forgive me. My wife took her first big game animal with a 46# @ 26"  DAS recurve and a beman shaft with a 100grain insert and a 100 grain Muzzy Phantom. She got a pass thru.

Then she used the same set up for this four pointer with similar results.

 

Pictures speak louder than words so i won't add anything.

[ron w]

[KentuckyTJ]

Jon, no doubt they will kill a deer. I hunted with them for two years and shot many deer from my 50 lb bows. But a field point will kill a deer if you hit is in both lungs but it's the shots that don't hit the mark that are suspect especially with a mid 40's pound bow. I ended up going with Magnus Stingers as the bleeder on them is much smaller and I've seen better penetration with them.

[Bill Carlsen]

I would like to make one other point about mutiblade heads. When Fred Bear designed and marketed the four blade Razorhead the average hunting bow  weight was 45#.....50# was considered a "big" bow back then. They (four blade heads) worked very well then and they still do with bows of that weight. Get them sharp and put them where they belong...simple!

[Arwin]

Originally posted by Bow man:
My wife shoots them and she pulls 42lbs and I saw a young girl put down a 400 lb hog with them and she was shooting 40lb.

We know that young lady pretty well!    She killed that big ole' hog with a compound set at 40# and it zipped right through it.

 Here she is with a 250lb +/- hog that she took using Muzzy Phantom 125's and a JavaMan Tanjavur pulling 40@25, her first trad harvest.
 

[jonsimoneau]

Wow!  That young girl is really something!  Congrats to her!  Anyway guys...after your posts...my buddy is going to use them.  I'll post pics of his "luck"...I mean success. Thanks again.