Broadhead size

[Highlandwarrior]

What are the largest fixed 2 blade broadheads (length and width, not neccessarily weight) out there, vintage thru current? Just a curiousity thing mostly, as I'm assuming the large deadhead has to be one of them and is a good example of a large head that doesn't really weight a lot

[Terry Green]

Simmons tree sharks.....2 inches wide....flying hatchets

[Rock 'N Bow]

Centaur Battle ax.

[Terry Green]

I forgot about the battle ax....2 and 1/8 wide

[Highlandwarrior]

Forgot about the simmons, those centaurs are pretty cool. Any others? Older ones?

German Kinetic DS 1 7/8" wide!

Bisch

[Highlandwarrior]

The DS is cool looking, but at $250 for a set of three, they better come with a helper to gut, skin and load the animal too!

[Slickhead]

Those wide blades look great but I wonder if they impede penetration.
I soot a 50 Savannah and was thinking about the tree sharks at one time.
However I wonder if Id get a good pass thru?

[Highlandwarrior]

Simmons makes one that is longer and not as wide as the tree shark too I believe. Some of these definitely seem to go against Ashby's findings, but then again there are a lot of pics with dead animals out there from all these. To each his own I guess.

[Etter]

A well sharpened tree shark will blow through anything. I read online about a guy that hunts elk with them exclusively out of a 50lb bow and has gotten pass throughs on every one. Me, personally, Ive killed deer, bear, and pigs with them and have always gotten great penetration with a 50lb bow and 600 grain arrow. The one that sticks out is the bear I killed a few years ago. About a 200lb sow. I shot her while she was coming down a tree. The arrow entered just in front of her back leg, passed lengthwise through her body, existed her sternum bone and stuck in the tree she was climbing down.

Before that, I had one pass through both scapulas of a young buck and bury in the dirt. Unbelievable heads!  I think they can compensate for a poor shot in a lot of cases and my initial thinking was that you are much more likely to hit a critter in the liver or guts than bone thats heavy enough to stop the head, but I havent found a bone yet that they wont penetrate.

[cacciatore]

I had great success with the Tree Shark on will boar but I had no penetration in steep angles. 57# recurves 630 grs arrow.
Shoulder blades are very difficult to pass on Big boars.

Originally posted by Highlandwarrior:
The DS is cool looking, but at $250 for a set of three, they better come with a helper to gut, skin and load the animal too!

When I bought mine, I got them straight from DS for about $60/3. There was only one run of them made. They were custom made for DS.

Bisch

[Highlandwarrior]

Yup, but if you can find them now, that's what they are going for apparently. At least the ones on "the bay" right now are anyway

[Terry Green]

Bisch is right...they are now made in China and not the same!!!  Sold the company and the new company moved production to China.  Silver Flames are really a thing of the past.  They are NOT what German Kinetics made!!!

[Highlandwarrior]

Pretty sure those 3, and those are the only ones up, are original DS's