Recommended 2 blade broadheads

Doug Treat · August 27, 2017, 05:39:00 PM

Zwickey, Eskimo.

Bowguy67 · August 27, 2017, 08:30:00 PM

I'm another stinger guy for screw in set ups

Drewster · August 28, 2017, 10:25:00 AM

Any SHARP, cut on contact head that you can tune well for your shaft. Sharp is the key.

JApple · September 14, 2017, 10:47:00 PM

cutthroats...

Ari_Bonn · September 15, 2017, 12:20:00 AM

Anyone have experience with those tuskers?

Frisky · September 15, 2017, 02:35:00 AM

I shoot 45# @28" out of a fast Drake recurve. When I went to a 2 blade, I decided to try the single-bevel Grizzly. I've shot two deer with it with great results! With the poundage you're shooting, I'd go with the 125gr Grizzly and aluminum adaptors. It's pointier than the 160gr heads I use.

Joe

KillerBee · September 15, 2017, 12:13:00 PM

Vpa penetrators for me. I have had really good luck on big boars with these heads. I shoot the 3 blade terminators for deer and the 2 blade penetrators in the same grain fly exactly the same and are east to sharpen. They are tough as hell as well.

bucknut · September 16, 2017, 09:43:00 AM

Cutthroats! Buy them and never look back. They are like tanks!

Terry Green · September 16, 2017, 11:20:00 AM

Badgers are pretty bomb proof.

September 16, 2017, 03:01:00 PM

If you are concerned about penetration a Hunter's Head (now from Three Rivers) sharpened Mussato style has proven very effective for me for a number of deer. I shot a deer with an original last year along a switch grass field. Normally I would go for a 150 wide Deadhead in that situation, but this one caught me by surprise. A lost arrow pass through and the deer went down quickly and in sight with a gushing blood trail that I didn't need to follow. Of course, I was not using anything like a Holy Grail, just a 50@26 duo shooter JD Berry.

Ron LaClair · September 16, 2017, 04:48:00 PM

Kevin said,

QuoteSome really good suggestions above, except maybe the Stinger Buzzcut (explanation later). I think the better choice, if you are new and aren't sure about sharpening are the Stinger 150 grain, 2 blade (not buzzcut).

QuoteSchmidty3, here is the explanation, it is not mine as I am no expert. From "The Archery Bible" by Fred Bear page 73, right column, second paragraph: "Serrated and sawtooth edges on a broadhead should be avoided. While they look wicked, actually the teeth fill with hair, tallow and tissue and thus impede clean cutting and penetration"

We all revere Fred Bear but he was marketing his Bear Razorhead. Before that he was file sharpening Eskimo broadheads

Ari_Bonn · September 16, 2017, 05:22:00 PM

Hard to say you got Mr.Fred saying serrated bad then you got Mr.Hill saying he only serrates his.

JusAGuy · September 16, 2017, 06:21:00 PM

QuoteOriginally posted by Ron LaClair:
Kevin said,

QuoteSome really good suggestions above, except maybe the Stinger Buzzcut (explanation later). I think the better choice, if you are new and aren't sure about sharpening are the Stinger 150 grain, 2 blade (not buzzcut).
QuoteSchmidty3, here is the explanation, it is not mine as I am no expert. From "The Archery Bible" by Fred Bear page 73, right column, second paragraph: "Serrated and sawtooth edges on a broadhead should be avoided. While they look wicked, actually the teeth fill with hair, tallow and tissue and thus impede clean cutting and penetration"
We all revere Fred Bear but he was marketing his Bear Razorhead. Before that he was file sharpening Eskimo broadheads [/b]

QuoteOriginally posted by Ari_Bonn:
Hard to say you got Mr.Fred saying serrated bad then you got Mr.Hill saying he only serrates his.

We're fortunate to have experts like Mr. LaClair, Mr. Bear and Mr. Hill to give us advice from the "real world".

Unfortunately, even the legends like those fellas don't always agree.

Ron LaClair · September 16, 2017, 08:57:00 PM

Broadheads have changed over the years since the days of Fred Bear and Howard Hill. There wasn't a manufactured head like the Magnus Buzzcut or the SteelForce or the out of production Raptor.

People made their own version like the LaClair Lacerator.

September 17, 2017, 01:44:00 AM

I have shot 48 deer with serrated broadheads and not once have I had the head choked with tallow or cover with more than one or two strands of hair. I did find a rocky mountain head once that was covered with dry hair, under that was matted hair. It was a full length 25 diameter easton shaft and missing one plastic fletch. A couple hundred yards later I found a doe laying on the open field with the missing plastic fletch in the entrance wound. Different heads have different benefits from one edge or the other, depending the metal hardness and the shape of the head.

Roy from Pa · September 17, 2017, 06:58:00 AM

There are several good heads on the market and you will get many opinions. I've always used Magnus II two blades. They always flew very well for me.

Wheels2 · September 17, 2017, 07:33:00 AM

I had to go to new heads this year due to bow change.
Based on all of the good things said here and other site, I have two packs of Magnus Stingers coming.
I sure hope that they are as sharp as claimed.

September 17, 2017, 03:12:00 PM

Remember the Wasp 3, 4, and 6 blade heads? Now there was a broadhead.

Walt Francis · September 17, 2017, 10:32:00 PM

I think I have tried most of the broadheads mentioned. My preference is the Eclipse and Grizzly, they are both built solid. I've have used them to take a critters from as small as a hun to as large as a moose and bison; Never had either of them fail. I can't say that about some of the others that have been mentioned.