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Author Topic: 3 blade with #40  (Read 4724 times)

Offline Tim Finley

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Re: 3 blade with #40
« Reply #20 on: March 15, 2023, 11:18:37 AM »
If I was shooting that light of a bow the WW is all I would shoot it will penetrate farther and never a small narrow 2 blade .

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Re: 3 blade with #40
« Reply #21 on: March 16, 2023, 08:36:31 AM »
It would be interesting to know the arrow weight of these 3 blade pass throughs?

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Re: 3 blade with #40
« Reply #22 on: March 16, 2023, 10:59:06 AM »
With my 42# Firefly Messenger my arrow weight is 510-515.  Great performing combination.

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Re: 3 blade with #40
« Reply #23 on: March 16, 2023, 11:07:57 AM »
Tim, why no 2 blade?

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Re: 3 blade with #40
« Reply #24 on: March 17, 2023, 11:27:51 AM »
Arrow pinch and bad blood trails I hung up a fully intact deer carcass and shot different heads through it and the WW penetrated better than the two blades .

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Re: 3 blade with #40
« Reply #25 on: March 19, 2023, 12:13:39 PM »
The wensels hissed in flight for me, bucky you should look at the vpa heads they are a solid 1 pc design.    You should tell us more about your setup though what bow and what type of arrow and what point weight your tuned at.  I have a 40# saunders recurve and i use a heritage 90 with a 250gr left bevel abowyer whitetail and its a huge two blade.

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Re: 3 blade with #40
« Reply #26 on: March 19, 2023, 03:14:29 PM »
Tajue 17, i have had great success with 2 blade Stingers for 10 years. Just wondering about 3 blade. Arrow is GT trad 500 spine with 150 head 150 insert. Bow is Kanati LB 40@26

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Re: 3 blade with #40
« Reply #27 on: March 19, 2023, 03:15:35 PM »
Tim, no problem with my 2 blade penetrating.

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Re: 3 blade with #40
« Reply #28 on: March 20, 2023, 06:08:31 AM »
Id look at the vpa 3 blades even the wensels it really comes down to budget but if your arrow is flying straight and your shot distance is reasonable then a really sharp 3 blade will work,,  there are many pics and videos.    My favorite 3 blades are the big snuffers but they are hard to find..  using a heritage 90 with a 160 snuffer and a 42gr long aluminum insert i shot straight down into a big 170# doe and my arrow was sticking out the bottom between her shoulders, the bow was a 46# northern mist baraga with B50 non FF string.
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Re: 3 blade with #40
« Reply #29 on: March 27, 2023, 10:07:29 PM »
Have no second thoughts with either snuffers or woodsmans. Used 160 snuffers on 2014s out of daughters 42# recurve to take a fat Ohio doe a few years ago to see just how well it would work. Arrow blew through on a broadside. ......YMMV....
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Re: 3 blade with #40
« Reply #30 on: March 27, 2023, 10:24:49 PM »
Are we still talking about this?

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Surely you can shoot a 150# deer with a 3 blade.  :bigsmyl:
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Re: 3 blade with #40
« Reply #31 on: March 28, 2023, 01:02:53 PM »
Are we still talking about this?

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Surely you can shoot a 150# deer with a 3 blade.  :bigsmyl:

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Re: 3 blade with #40
« Reply #32 on: March 29, 2023, 09:39:42 AM »
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Re: 3 blade with #40
« Reply #33 on: March 29, 2023, 05:32:43 PM »
70# :scared:

Offline TwistedHollow

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Re: 3 blade with #40
« Reply #34 on: March 29, 2023, 06:52:32 PM »
I like the Wensel woodsman’s and had success with them but had a hard time getting them sharp. VPAs are also a nice head

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Re: 3 blade with #40
« Reply #35 on: March 29, 2023, 09:16:26 PM »
As a 26" arrow shooter, a longer arrow out of the same draw weight may be about 30-36 grains heavier (if shaft weight/inch are identical), but I don't think the draw length matters as long as the draw weight at the different draw lengths is identical.  Once the arrow leaves the back of the bow, no more force can be applied to the projectile.

Of course if one is using a bow that is 40#@28", the 26" draw will produce less energy out the front than any longer draw would.

I have only shot one big game animal that I consider not thinned skin ( TX boar). I've shot bear, whitetails, mule deer, and pronghorn with 2 and 4 blades.  Great placement, sharp, and stable arrow flight = dead.

By the way, that Boar wasn't even shot with a "broadhead". I was a guinea pig (no pun intended) using a -4 cable bladed "head" called the atom.  I was astonished at the effectiveness of this head. However, I never hunted with it again.  Boy, I'd bet it would should hammer squirrels though!

All said and done though, I'm more comfortable with 2-blades even though I have no poor reports otherwise.

I should add, it has been 47 years since my last physics class, so I am more than grateful to be reminded.  :)
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Re: 3 blade with #40
« Reply #36 on: March 30, 2023, 06:45:01 PM »
I’ve killed the majority of my deer with 40-45# pound bows and the OG wensel woodsmans. No issues at all. I have switched to mainly 2 blades but only for options and I can sharpen them better imo. Still have and will use the WW’s as I need. All were pass through. Arrow get hung up on feathers a lot but always two holes.

Just being nosy, and the fact that I really don’t know, which two blade is the preferred BH for 45# draw weight? Not sure why, but I like the looks of the single bevel Eskimo’s. Thanks, John

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Re: 3 blade with #40
« Reply #37 on: April 10, 2023, 04:44:57 PM »
I've been using, woodsman, snuffers, palmer extreme cuts, phantoms out of my 47lb Palmer recurve and haven't had a problem on deer. For hogs i switched to a simmons big two blade really liking the land shark and had no problem getting passthroughs on hogs.
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Re: 3 blade with #40
« Reply #38 on: April 11, 2023, 01:57:38 PM »
"I dont think many can pull 70# anymore, i know 2yrs pulling 67# i needed shoulder surgery"

Some of us aren't pansies.

If anyone has to have surgery from pulling a bow has NO IDEA what they are doing in drawing a bow.  ZERO!!!
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