I have committed to using Cutthroats this year and I am curious if any of you have taken game with them this year. They look plenty tough and I can get extremely sharp. I don't anticipate any issues with them, but I am giving them a go on whitetails this year before I carry them elk hunting next fall.
D.P.
Dave, I have used them the last couple years. Had success on several whitetails. Used them elk hunting this year but the wind cost me an opportunity to test on elk!
I have shot single bevel forever it seems and after using the cutthroat last year plan on continuing for many years to come.
Tom
Dave Cutthroats are overkill on deer :biglaugh:
Dave, I switched over to the Cutthroats midyear. No big animals, but I was able to harvest some public land goats. Here are some of the images.
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One of the blood trails.
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Here's the most damage sustained so far. A complete pass through on a billy, then the broadhead hit the lava rock the was just on the other side of him.
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Given the positive results, I recently ordered another dozen from RMS Gear.
That's what I will be using this year for the first time. Sure hope I get a shot.
I'm pretty sure if I do I will get a pass through and my wirehaired dachshund will not get much of a workout. That's ok. He enjoys just finding the deer. Twenty-foot trail won't really put him off :)
Dave--I just finished sharpening 6 up, and hopefully I'll be bloodying (is that a word?) one up tomorrow. I bought the 250 left bevels and my KME knife sharpener really finished them off. Good Luck
Thanks for the responses. I expect them to do their job well if I do mine, but I like to see the successes. I can't get out until Friday afternoon.
D.P.
There is an elk shoulder bone with a big hole in it on the counter in RMSG and it was the off side shoulder! I didn't bag anything with one this year but they performed well on the doe I shot last year. My wife did inflict a pretty horrible wound channel on an aspen tree shooting at the biggest bull I've ever called in, you could clearly see some serious torquing action on the bark!
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I'll be using them this year also. I hope to have actual experience to share sometime soon.
Any more? No shooting for me on our opening weekend here in Michigan.
D.P.
I am using them also this year. I will be out in the morning for the first time this year.
I am loaded up with them. I fired a warning shot at a turkey a few days ago. Not really the way I planned it, but it is hard to draw with a dozen of those things within 20 yards of you in a treestand. LOL
Lethalflight57 sent me a photo of a bear he shot this fall. I know he was using Cutthroats earlier this year for our bear hunt this spring. So, I am guessing that is what he used for the fall bear.
I am thinking hard about ordering some to try, but Stos have been good to me.
dhaverstick has a thread (Birthday bull moose) below that he used a Cutthroat on.
I was at the RMSGear shop yesterday playing around and I saw the off shoulder blade of Paul's bull and it has a still sharp broadhead stuck in it. Was plenty good for me. Here is the story.
http://rmsgear.blogspot.com/2015/09/pauls-first-elk.html
Up for the afternoon, hoping to hear of some successful kills with the Cutthroats.
I'm hunting with my recurve the rest of the year and it's shooting those heads well. I'm going to touch them all up this week, 2 weeks until I can bow hunt again.
I have shot 2 deer with them. Recovered one and didn't the other. Both were good placed shots. I don't like them and switched broadheads mid season this season. The entry and exits are small. Hardly any blood was found. I've shot 2 deer with the broadheads I have switched too and I really like them.
I've shot at least 4 with them, they are pretty spendy but work as well as any if I do my part.
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Kevin Dill used one on the bull moose he took this fall in AK.
Pass through. Went about 80 yards.
I shot this 400lb black bear with a 190gr Cutthroat and wood arrow out of my JD Berry Morning Star. Shot was 17 yards, he ran about 60 yards, did the death moan, and it was all over in less than a minute. I have also killed a few deer with them. Great durable heads and very easy to sharpen, but sometimes the blood trails leave something to be desired. Not blaming the heads, that's the nature of the beast with narrow 2 blades...
Stud bear congrats!
One of the main benefits of these heads besides the narrow profile and thus great penetration is they are nearly indestructible. So if you consider them expensive at least take into account how long they will last if you don't lose them. A lifetime.
Many of the laminated designs I used did not hold up under impacts with the ground or bone. But who cares right, since they are so cheap. I got tired of tuning laminated bh's though and having to buy another pack every season.
I use Abowyers too.
I used them (200 grain) in Africa. I was really impressed. I had complete pass throughs on every animal. I took 6 animals while there. I also took a shot at a guina bird, for the feathers for fly tying. I did miss the first one and hit a big rock. After recovering the arrow, the broadhead had no damage and was still sharp.
As mentioned they cost more, but will last forever. I've shot a lot of different broadheads in my 50 years of bowhunting and this has to be the best I have every used.
I shot a doe and nice 8pt with cutthroats this year, newer guy here so nothing to compare them too but I hand sharpened em and they did the job, they are stout that's for sure
Since this thread is 6 yrs old - Dave did you ever do the elk hunt and any success using these heads?
I did go on the hunt, but the only bull we had an opportunity on had me as the caller. For my white tails I am still using VPA 3-blades, Magnus 4-blades or Ace & Zwickey 2-blades.
D.P.
Thanks for the input gents. I've been watching this one and definitely like to use cutthroats next season. :thumbsup: