I shoot an older Excaliber crossbow at around 325 ft/sec. It's stock as it can be. Excaliber says my crossbow gets the best accuracy with 150 gr broadhead. In fact, Excaliber has a fixed broadhead, the Boltcutter, that they recommend, but it's only 1 1/16" diameter Killed my first deer with one of these, but it didn't bleed a drop. If I hadn't heard it fall and knew just about where it was, it would have been a disaster. Bolt made a clean pass thru.
So I changed to the 2" Rage. I've killed a few deer with it and so far, it's been ok, but it's not as accurate as the Boltcutter. Accurate enough, I guess, cause I never lost a deer, but I'd like it to be better. Blood trails have been better than the Boltcutter, of course, anything would beat the results I had. Again all have been clean pass thru's.
Last year I saw a Schwacker 150 gr with a 3" cut. Read some reviews and like everything else, you read good and bad. Did see a video where a fellow compared 4 broadheads (I forget which ones) and the 2" Schwacker shot thru an old tire with 18" of penetration and didn't destroy the blades. In this test of 4 broadheads, it was the clear winner. Of course, I read a review where some fellow bad mouthed them something terrible.
Well, I decided to give the 3" Schwacker a try. I already had some 150 gr field tips, so I re-sighted the crossbow and tried 2 shots with the practice tip. Shot exactly where the field tips did, just as advertised. Just as accurate as the Boltcutters, so maybe Excaliber knew what they were talking about.
If and when I get to shoot a deer, I'll take pics and let yall know how they did.
