Serated Broadheads Pros & Cons

[Kingstaken]

I'm looking at a broadhead I never seen before. It's steel force 140 grain glue on with serated edges.
Anyone have experience with this broadhead or another with serated edges?

[ChuckC]

My personal opinion is a serated head is never as sharp as a well sharpened straight blade (traditional blade) head.  It is only my opinion.

Someone had, in another post, in another lifetime compared cutting a steak with a serated knife to one of regular blade.  I suggest, if I am hunting a well done deer, then yes,serated is fine, but for raw meat and innards...no.  Remember, this is just my opinion.

ChuckC

[V I Archer]

Gene Wensel wrote an article in tbm a few years ack about how to put a serrated edge on broadheads using a rifling file.  Interesting idea to toy with.

[mbbushman]

A properly sharpened serrated edge will way out cut a straight edge. But it is very difficult to sharpen serrated edges once they get dull. For that reason I don't use serrated blades much, or serrated broadheads, I don't have the patience to resharpen them.

[Terry Green]

What's WAY more important is are they sharp?!?!?!

Either serrated or not really don't matter if they are scary sharp...

Next is where you put them....that's also more important that serrated or not.

Is your arrow flight great?...more important than serrated or not.

In the big sceme of things....worrying over serrated or not aint worth it...cause then you gotta worry about 'what degree of serration'?

My suggestion, sharpen what ever you got, and go shoot your bow.   :D

[bjk]

I've never seen a steelforce bh that wasn't scalpel sharp.  Haven't used them in a while, but they made a good product.

[Shawn Leonard]

Serrated wounds heal up or close up quicker. Ever get a paper cut, bleeds like md and hard to stop, same as a razor cut. A jagged cut ya can pinch off and squeeze and it will seal up and quit bleeding quicker. A doctor friend who hunts told me a straight edge head is the only way to go. I will also say Steelforce does makea nice sharp head, I shot 40 or more deer with them over the years. Shawn

[Sneakypete]

Dr. Ashby says no way, and that's good enough for me. We are trying to penetrate, not saw.

[owlbait]

That said, if the old Journeyman Raptor heads ever come back out I will buy a couple dozen. Used to serrate Magnus heads with chainsaw file and they were wicked and effective. Lots of work and hard to get all your heads consistent.

[hickstick]

don't know.....not legal in MA.  

[Adam Mooney]

Call Nick at steel force and let him tell you why the Serrated edges are better. Here is the deel, If you cut something with a razor you have a perfect cut nice and clean, Now cut something with a jagged/Serrated and the ripped rather then cut. Steelforce heads are awesome and the will resharpen them for you for life (main Blade only). The SABERTOOTH HP is an awesome blade it has a reverse Serration with the teath sticking out instead of cut into the blade. They even just came out with a new head called the PHAT HEAD. I was the first to see it before it was released at the ATA show. It is real sweet and it is 2x thicker then the older heads .080 thickness. Here is the number for them 570-448-2845. Tell him ADAM sent you from AWU.

[jindydiver]

This argument gets trotted out every year doesn’t it?    
It makes no difference if an artery gets cut by a razor straight edge or a serrated edge, the artery can no longer hold the blood pressure and the animal is going to die. I use polished straight edges because I want my arrow to penetrate and reach that artery so it can do it’s job.

And steak knives are serrated so that when you scrape your blade edge on the plate you aren’t scraping your cutting edges, your blade stays sharp and stays cutting steak.

[Terry Green]

Originally posted by jindydiver:
And steak knives are serrated so that when you scrape your blade edge on the plate you aren’t scraping your cutting edges, your blade stays sharp and stays cutting steak.

Then that makes a good case for serrated if you hit a big rib hard...the edge will skitter across not duling the cutting edges.

OK......I'm going back out to shoot my bow.
   

[jindydiver]

And so the arguement goes back around again  

[Terry Green]

Too funny indy!!!!!