kykiller,
I designed the Talon small game head to give you a little bit of both the shock you get with a blunt with the a cutting edge so often needed to cleanly kill small game. The head came about after literally taking hundreds of nutria, opossums, raccoons, squirrels, rabbits, etc. Small game hunting is probably my favorite thing to do with a bow and arrow and I've used every single type of head available to take them.
There are a couple of points I think are important to make. One is that the right head for you will depend largely on what you're after and what your set up is. There is a world of difference between what a HTM rubber blunt will do from a heavy weight hunting bow and arrow and what it'll do from a 40 pound bow and lighter arrows. Take into account what you're hunting and what your setup is when choosing your small game head.
Another, and I think this is the most critical, is shot placement. My experience having hunted small game with lots of people is that there is an expectation for a head to kill on impact, regardless of shot placement. I think this is because the animals are small, and ocassionally, when shot placement is right on, we do get DOA shots.
The most common shot placement that I made when I first started hunting, and often see people that I take out for the first time, is to shoot center mass. The targets are small and the natural tendency seems to be shooting right for the center. This results in gut shots and longer recoveries. It's hard, I think, but you can train yourself to shoot for a shoulder crease, just like you do with deer. Others prefer head shots for small game. I know that concentrating on shot placement made my shooting at small game get significantly better, and my recovery rate go way up.
Congrats on your first deer!
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