2 Blade broadheads

[Deertaker]

Hey everyone,
Just wondering what people normal do for 2 blade heads, do you normal mount the head vertical or horizontal? and I guess also why, or what have you found to make you do it the way you do?
Thanks!

[Pat B]

I shoot wood arrows and set the point where the arrow spins true so it can be most any orientation. For a 15 to 20 yard shot in heavy southern woods I don't think it matters. At longer distances in open country it may.

[GCook]

Where it ends up when tight in the insert.

[toddster]

Actually, I mount my broadheads, so with my natural cant they are horizontal

[Tim Reese]

Same as todster

[Phillip Fields]

I mount mine horizontal. When the arrow bends around the riser I don't want the blade to catch the wind as it would if vertical.

[mgf]

Using aluminum and carbon arrows,  wherever they tighten in the insert.

[dnovo]

I usually mount mine vertical. Although sometimes they end up anywhere if I’m having trouble getting one to spin perfect on a wood arrow. I personally don’t think it matters and don’t believe in the wind catching a vertical broadhead idea.

[black velvet]

I mount mine horizontal. Vertical bothers my vision. Its makes me look at the arrow instead of the target.

[Terry Lightle]

Horizontal for me

[Bisch]

Actually, I mount my broadheads, so with my natural cant they are horizontal

This is what I do also^^^^. My reasoning is so I have the same sight picture every time I pull back on a critter. If your setup is well tuned, broadhead orientation dosen’t matter except as how it looks to the shooter.

Bisch

[kopfjaeger]

Vertical for 53 years. 

[Sam McMichael]

Considering that the arrow rotates while in flight, I don't see that it makes any difference. Wherever the head mounts straight is good for me. I just want it to fly straight.

[Kris]

Horizontal (when canted) and spinning perfectly.  Horizontal to NOT see it and so the BH would/should never engage my hand/finger if something went wrong.  I am RH'd and I cannot bend my left index finger from a childhood accident, so that sticks out there a bit and I have to corral it in with my middle finger to keep it tucked.  I don't care to have "inches" of arrow in front of my riser at full draw and like to keep that whole dynamic neat and close to the bow.  I can literally draw a horizontally mounted BH over the top of my hand without risk of injury.  Also nice when shooting selfbows and similar w/o a horizontal rest.  G. Fred suggested this years ago(1989?) Re: Zwickey Deltas to me, and I've stuck with it ever since.

There is no right or wrong, it is personal preference and everyone has there own reasons. 

I disagree with the arrow flight argument Hor. vs Vert.  The arrow is spinning inches/feet from (unless no helical or off-set) the bow upon release, and will correct itself per your correct spine & tuning efforts, regardless of the initial BH orientation.

Kris

[Tim Finley]

Im with Pat B they have to be spun straight to have any real accuracy you just cant stick a broadhead an arrow and get it to fly straight with out getting the wobble out . You would need to turn the nock to get horizontal or vertical .

[Buggs]

I mount them perpendicular  to the wood grain, assuming if any external turbulence or rotational pressure exists on the face of the head in flight, the spine of the shaft might help dampen the effect.

[blacktailbob]

What others have said about spinning
Which is exactly why I hated these heads. How do you spin test a chisel head? Yeah I'm sure it's hard to curl a point but....

What ever is close to horizontal for me as long as they spin like top.

[Tim Hoeck]

10 and 4 for me. I do it because I don't notice the broadhead at all when I'm at full draw

[cacciatore]

I fine tune every single arrow and broadhead so it really doesn’t matter how they are placed; but I like them perpendicular expecially hunting wild boar at close range

[Chuck Jones]

I draw the arrow back until the broadhead touches my index finger on my bow hand. I mount the broadheads vertically because of that.