Hunting w/ Wood and 125 grain heads???

[skychief]

Who  hunts with wood shafts and 125 grain broadheads?

Let's hear some results and setups.  Maybe a harvest picture or two would be nice if ya have them!

It seems that some think it nearly impossible to kill a deer with this combination, these days!

Best regards, Skychief.

[Prairie Drifter]

I do. I've used cedar, poplar and douglas fir. I usually use Magnus heads, but this year I'm gonna try some Zwickeys. Here are a few .

44# Maddog longbow

 

47# Rocky Mtn Recurve

 

 

[robtattoo]

Not often, I've got too used to my skinny carbons & heavy points, but when I do, they seem to work jes' fine!

 

[iawoody2]

Been doing it since 1959.

[Greyfox54]

I personaly think 125 grain heads are enough. In 1993 I shot a huge Canadien Bull Moose with 2219 aluminum arrows and 135 grain Zwickey Deltas out of a 66# Black Widow . I glad nobody told the moose and I got him before I found out I wasn't using a heavy enough head ! I've got some good pictures but don't know how to put them on computer .

[abbatoys]

Taken 3 longbow bucks with cedar arrows and both magnus and zwickey 2 blade 125 heads, none went more than 40 yards, not great blood trails, but when they only run that far it makes for an easy recovery

[sticksnstones]

I don't choose to run this setup personally, but when I ported the Michigan Longbow kill archives to our new website I found 125 two blades to be the #1 killing broadhead, and wood was the #1 killing shaft. The lethality of this combo can't be argued.
Thom

[joe skipp]

I use 125/135/160 grain broadheads on my wood arrows and they shoot great. Aside from the 160 gr Snuffer, I shoot 2 blade Eskimos and Deltas in the lighter weights. Good flight and penetration. It's a deadly combo.

[Fletcher]

Wood arrows with 125 gr heads have been killing things just fine for a long time.  They are a proven combo.  I like wood with 200 gr heads, but that doesn't mean the other won't work.  In the end, "it's not what you hit them with, it's where you hit them that counts".

[Walt Francis]

I have taken a lot of game, including mule deer, whitetail, black bear, and elk, with 125 grain broadheads mounted on wood arrows.  For many decades that was the preferred weight, my guess is that it was used on the vast majority of wood (and AL) arrows.  That said, for the past five or six years my preferred broadhead is the 145 grain Eclipse on wood arrows.  

Dead is Dead, the critter don't much care what broadhead or arrow was used to kill him/her.

[VictoryHunter]

This will be my first year using woods but I have always used 125 gr heads.

[Knawbone]

  46lb self bow and 125 grn  zwickey on cedar shaft. Shot this Buck at 16 yrds threw one lung and the heart.Dropped 40 yrds. from the tree stand.

[Cyclic-Rivers]

 

 

its enough