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Author Topic: Heads for deer hunting whats in your quiver  (Read 1715 times)

Offline Mike Gerardi

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Re: Heads for deer hunting whats in your quiver
« Reply #40 on: May 19, 2009, 09:19:00 AM »
Woodsmans weighted at 225grains and Grizzly 160s

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Re: Heads for deer hunting whats in your quiver
« Reply #41 on: May 19, 2009, 09:24:00 AM »
I may have any or all of these in my quiver at any one time, typically in this order:

300gr Extreme (my main head now)
125gr Wensel Woodsman weighted to 200gr total
160gr Snuffer weighted to 300gr
160gr Stos weighted to 300gr
130gr Pearson Deadhead weighted to 200gr
200gr Simmons Interceptor w/bleeder

All of them kill; I've got complete confidence in any one of them. Usually I choose which head I'm going to shoot first on a whim.
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Re: Heads for deer hunting whats in your quiver
« Reply #42 on: May 19, 2009, 09:42:00 AM »
This year I'm going to try Snuffers, WW, and Zwickey No Mercy single bevel. I am really wanting to try the single bevel on hogs.
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Re: Heads for deer hunting whats in your quiver
« Reply #43 on: May 19, 2009, 10:39:00 AM »
125gr Stingers for screw-ins.  125gr Zwickeys or STOS for glue ons.  They have all worked for me.

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Re: Heads for deer hunting whats in your quiver
« Reply #44 on: May 19, 2009, 10:44:00 AM »
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Re: Heads for deer hunting whats in your quiver
« Reply #45 on: May 19, 2009, 01:15:00 PM »
155 grain Eclipse with bleeders.
The broadhead used, regardless of how sharp, is nowhere as important as being able to place it in the correct spot.

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Re: Heads for deer hunting whats in your quiver
« Reply #46 on: May 19, 2009, 02:02:00 PM »
new archer here...  I am practicing with 100gr field points.  Should I switch to something heavier?  Doesn't look like anyone shoots with less than 125gr?

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Re: Heads for deer hunting whats in your quiver
« Reply #47 on: May 19, 2009, 02:36:00 PM »
160 snuffers for everything.....
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Re: Heads for deer hunting whats in your quiver
« Reply #48 on: May 19, 2009, 03:00:00 PM »
tcw....yeah...100 grains isn't really a lot of hardware.  Most of the heads we use are heavier and are reusable over and over again.  I have one Zwickey that I've killed 14 deer and one hog with.
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Re: Heads for deer hunting whats in your quiver
« Reply #49 on: May 19, 2009, 03:34:00 PM »
Like Terry said, the 100 grainers don't have much steel.  I normally shoot 125 WW now with 125 grain steel insert.
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Re: Heads for deer hunting whats in your quiver
« Reply #50 on: May 19, 2009, 04:02:00 PM »
175 grain Abowyer Single Bevel Brown Bears weighted to 217 grains with a 100 grain brass insert.  I think it still may be on the light side for these Michigan whitetails...  :thumbsup:
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Re: Heads for deer hunting whats in your quiver
« Reply #51 on: May 19, 2009, 04:12:00 PM »
150 grain Zephyr Scirocco's, with the bleeder if I can get them sharp, without if I can't.

No Sasquatches this year, Terry?  I though you liked those foot-wide broadeads...
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Re: Heads for deer hunting whats in your quiver
« Reply #52 on: May 19, 2009, 04:18:00 PM »
125gr zwickey eskimos but probably gonna move up to 135gr 4 blade deltas, or 160gr stos
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Re: Heads for deer hunting whats in your quiver
« Reply #53 on: May 19, 2009, 04:35:00 PM »
Jeff...I did kill my biggest deer with a Sasquatch...and will likely use them again in TX later this year....with the bleeders....but I will have the Z 4 blades as mainstays as usual.
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Re: Heads for deer hunting whats in your quiver
« Reply #54 on: May 19, 2009, 04:47:00 PM »
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Re: Heads for deer hunting whats in your quiver
« Reply #55 on: May 19, 2009, 04:50:00 PM »
anything as long as its 125grn  :thumbsup:
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Re: Heads for deer hunting whats in your quiver
« Reply #56 on: May 19, 2009, 05:12:00 PM »
300XTreems and Woodsmans w/heavy steel inserts on hairy critters but often use 2" wide, 200 gr. Simmons Treesharks on longbeards
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Re: Heads for deer hunting whats in your quiver
« Reply #57 on: May 19, 2009, 05:43:00 PM »
Abowyer Brown Bears 175gr. with 75gr. steel adaptors for carbons or by themselves on Surewood Shafts (douglas fir)....haven't decided yet. I am leaning toward the Surewoods though.
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Re: Heads for deer hunting whats in your quiver
« Reply #58 on: May 19, 2009, 09:08:00 PM »
Snuffer 160grain with 100 grain adaptor, also have magnus 1s and grizzlies but shoot them at elk.  I'm uping my pounds and might shoot snuffers at everything

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Re: Heads for deer hunting whats in your quiver
« Reply #59 on: May 19, 2009, 09:49:00 PM »
This deer season it will be 190 El Grande Grizzly sharpened by Ron from KME on Sitka Spruce shafts.
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