Not everyone believes or accepts the heavy arrow, higher foc or single bevel stuff. I dropped draw weight and got into these things due to concerns for penetration. This shot started out as broadside at 20 yards but at the shot, the deer whirled and it hit the neck. Stuff happens...
A friend of mine shared this...this was a GA deer experience. I thought it might compliment KYTJ's thread on the single bevel. Perhaps some of you will find it enlightening:
Here are the photos from Harold's deer. Arrow specs: 658 grains; 28% FOC; 190 Grizzly sharpened with KME knife sharpener.
The deer reacted before the arrow arrived and it ended up as an inadvertent frontal hit. Range was just over 20 yards.
This first photo is the entrance wound.
Below is the skinned out neck. Upper arrow is entrance. The 2 lower arrows show a huge cut along the top of the spine.
Here's a better view of the cut along the top of the spine, made by the BH. Note that the dorsal processes are missing.
Here's a further dissection showing those 'missing' dorsal processes. There are five severed processes. They are shown here with the connecting tissues still holding them together.
The broadhead then entered through the spine, splitting three vertebra lengthwise. Note the broadhead rotation as the spine was penetrated.
The broadhead barely clipped one lobe of the left lung then passed along the left wall of the thorax, inside the rib cage and left side of the abdominal cavity. Below is the damaged lung. Note that it is a hole – not a 'slice'.
This next photo shows the entire left side of the skinned carcass. Upper yellow arrow is neck entrance. Green arrow is where the arrow penetrated the spine and entered the thorax. Note the degree of tissue damage the rotating, single-bevel head has caused all along the arrow's path.
Here are close up photos of the tissue damage along the left side of the thorax, abdomen and hip.
The arrow passed through the left hip, breaking the femur then exiting, for a complete pass through. Needless to say there was no blood trail as the deer dropped instantly and never even wiggled. This degree of soft tissue damage is typical of that seen when using a quality, truly sharp single-bevel broadhead. It could easily be mistaken as the damage from a high-velocity rifle bullet.
After going thru this it is our judgment that anyone using a quality single-bevel broadhead and not seeing this type of tissue damage does not have their broadheads truly sharp!
Topic: Single Bevel BH damage thread (Read 694 times)
