What weight broadhead do you prefer?

[cacciatore]

250 on Carbon with standard inserts, when I hunt wild boars and elk. But sometimes I use 200 BHs if I may hunt in more open terrains same arrow but 1/2” longer.

[Buck350]

Me also 175 for years. I don't see a need for a change for me.

[charles m]

Me also 175 for years. I don't see a need for a change for me.

Same here. 

[Mint]

I have so many broadheads of different weights but like 200gr myself. But an old archery member gave me some brass inserts with the correct tap to thread them for the gold tip weights and now I can use any weight broadhead i choose but just adding weights to the back of the insert.

[Emilio]

This thread sounds "strange" to me, but the answers are giving me a lot of info.

I read, for example, Mr. Terry answering "175 - 200 since mid 80´s"... Well, I am bowhunting since mid 80´s as him and at that time in Spain, we could only find broadheads in the range of 100 to 125 grains. We used to match our arrows in order to get good flies, just playing with the tube caliber and those two different weight options and I can ensure you that we were absolutely successful. I have been doing the same since them, just taking care of getting the best fly of my hunting arrows and a good overall weight of the total arrow, but as far as I can see, today most everybody shoot arrows with much more heavier heads, playing with different spines. I understand that teher must be a reason that I am loosing (maybe FOC). Could you give me a reason to do this?? That´s another thread I pressume.

I am a lazy guy and I don´t like to be adding weights to my arrows so I will try to get those heavy broadheads to play with them in my tubes. Of course I will have to buy stiff tubes to get a decent fly using such a heavy broadheads (200 grains!!).

When I wrote that the post sound "strange" to me, is was just because my natural answer would have been "the one that gives me a perfect fly for the caliber that I am using", and that´s it, question solved... but maybe I am wrong. In the other hand I would have better understood a question regarding the broadhead diameter, for example...

Just forgive me friends, maybe I am too Traditional!! LOL.

Regards

[Terry Green]

Emilio, as far as the 175 to 200, 90% of the animals I've killed were with the 175 grain weight.  Zwickey Delta 4 blade with an aluminum adapter.

That's the head I want to shoot, so that's my 'question solved'.   

[Emilio]

Hi Terry,
Here in Spain we always go three or four steps behind you and even today, it is very difficult to find broadheads in that weights. Yes, we can use weight adpaters in order to add weight to our arrows, but no broadheads on those high weights.
It would have been very nice to have such material in our 80´s!!

Thank you for your answer.

Emilio

[Wudstix]

Emilio;
Sometimes I feel like we in USA have too many options when it comes to tuning arrows to the bow.  I prefer tapered wood and 160-250 grain heads.
 

[Sojurn]

I never get concerned with broadhead wieght.  I'm worried about total arrow mass, and whatever total front wieght makes the arrow tune best. There's a broadhead for every required wieght. Tune is everything.

[Terry Green]

Sojurn, 90% of my arrows since the 80s have been 585 grains.

Great thread all btw. 

[Flbowhunter]

I use to always shoot at least 300 grains up from and wanted a total arrow of around 600-650 grains. Now I shoot about 150-200 up front (depending on if it’s aluminum or carbon) with a total arrow weight of 540-590. I find this amount of weight to be much easier to tune, much more availability, and really flat flight from a 64 r/d longbow.

[Wudstix]

My arsenal is from 60-67# recurve and D/R longbow.  Broadheads are 160-200 grains and arrow weight from 635-660 grains.  This seems to work.  With my two latest bows 50 and 54# I may need to toy with mid 500's in the arrow grain weight.
 

[Bamboozle]

Mostly shoot 175 grains, but sometimes 200. I voted 175, but combined with the 200s I'm way in the majority. Great poll btw.

[Wudstix]

Just got some 175 and 200 grain Grizzly Instinct, plus a handful of Snuffer 160's.  Yummy!!!
 

[ozy clint]

I shoot a variety of glue on BH 's weighted to 250gr

[Scitty]

150gr BH with 50gr insert seems to work for me, 31.5' arrow (350 spine) out of a 63@31 Whip. Can push a little over so 200-225 upfront.

[Friend]

My personal thoughts on the ideal arrow design would be to have 100% of the arrow weight upfront...not possible however, that is my thought process when developing a hunting arrow.