Blues -- I didn't know Tusker made a 190? The only ones I have experience with are the Concords, which if I recall are 160. Until recently, Dr. Ashby's tests suggested that the steel was too soft, esp. for the long leading front blade. Tusker listened and increased hardness, I believe to 52, which is good. Last year I carried a mixed quiver of Concords, Grizzly, and STOS, all on identical wood shafts, and found all three to be excellent heads in flight and design. The Grizzly got a bit more penetration in foam targets, perhaps because it was a modified design narrowed to 1" at the rear. In any event the Concord is an excellent value for the money in a world where broadheads are becoming pricey as diamonds. Ron of KME likes them as well. Their thinness doesn't provide a great single-bevel "shelf width" for bone splitting, and like all two-blade heads they definitely need a Tanto tip. Be aware that STOS is coming out with 190-220-250 glue-on Ashby-style heads this summer, which I feel are worth waiting for. But all that longwindedness aside, indeed the Tusker Concord is a good, solid, well-designed and economical broadhead that I wouldn't hesitate to use on elk or most anything else. Dave
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