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I wonder if a mechanical broadhead makes a louder whack sound than a cut on contact broadhead
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Yep. I heard the 'thump'
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I heard my Heart Pounding!
Yeah, I do remember the thump!
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I always hear it. It’s a cool sound. It’s even louder when you shoot a big ole boar feral hog. Most hogs let out a squeal when hit, too. I like it when they squeal!
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lol
Kinda reminds me of my old Girl Friend
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i usually hear a Thwack type of sound especially if i hit the bone.
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Very much so. Hit forward right in the neck, broadhead stuck in the vertebrae. DRT.
When she fell it snapped the ferrule off right at the insert. I had that vertebrae with the broadhead stuck in it for years and then it was lost.
Hoyt Bow Bullet 145 grain, 31" Easton XX75 2317. Clearwater Powermag compound pulling just over 80#. Used to use an Elite GT500 with 90 pound limbs, 31" 2219 arrows with 145gr (if I remember right) Bone Busters sharp enough to shave with. Never didn't have a complete pass through on deer or black bear. Those days are definately over now though. With the arthritis I earned for 40 plus years in electrical construction, I'm starting to look at crossbows even though I just bought a new Elite EnKore this past summer. But it's only got 60 pound limbs on it.
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I did not hear the arrow hit my first deer (Doe). It went between the ribs on entry. Double lung shot, nicked a rib on exit. I have heard many since. It was a long time ago, 1977. My first bow was a Jennings model T 50 lb pull. 2018 Gamegetters with 100gr wasp broadheads. I missed the first Deer I ever shot at a few years before. It was a Nice 8 point Buck. I was new to bow hunting. He walked in to about 25 yds. I started to draw and he Stopped looked straight up at me. I froze at mid draw. He just stared at me. He pawed the ground trying to get me to move. It seemed like our eyes were locked on each others for 5 minutes, but it was probably more like 30-45 seconds. Any way, he had enough of me and bolted. As he lept away I let the arrow fly. It went right over his back. That image is burned into my memory. I learned a lot about bow hunting that day. The hard way. Sometimes thats the best way to learn. Never got busted on a draw since.
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I heard it this year for sure. It was a loud noise and I was afraid I would lose the deer. It ran 40yds and piled up after getting hit hard in the shoulder. Muzzys are truly bad to the bone!
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My first doe was at 42 yards. Loud "wack" when the broadhead hit. Hit her a little higher than I planned but she jumped a little and fell straight to the ground. Didnt have to track her at all.
My theory has been from the beginning is that the only reason she didn't run is because she was old but I remember being very surprised at how loud the smack was when it hit her
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Nope, but I do remember how excited I was to shoot my first deer with a bow. Now I feel like I’m on auto pilot.
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Yeh, cool sound, look forward to it every year.
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Yep, never forgotten sound. Blacktail doe in the rain in 1965, cedar arrow, two blade Bear Razorhead, an ancient Ben Pearson lemon wood semi-recurve bow. The razor sharp arrow sliced in behind the last rib angling forward and made a distinctive quick and short sound of slicing/cutting meat. My hunting partner killed another doe 30 seconds later, and his arrow hit bone to add a clear “chink” sound to the meat cutting.
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My firs time the buck was at 7 yards and I was on the ground with him. I had rattled him in at the edge of a cattail slough. He spun to take off just as I released the arrow from my noisy Browning bow. I remember the noise of the bow and him snapping frozen cattail stocks but don’t think I heard the arrow hit home in very much the wrong spot.
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Have poked six with the crossbow I bought in 2018. Used three-blade Muzzies on all of them. Makes a loud, hollow pop. This year’s was especially loud. All chest shots, so no big bones involved.
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It was 43 years ago, and no, I did not hear it.
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Remember it like it was yesterday. There’s really no other sound to rival the impact.
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I was 14, shooting a Darton Tracer 55 (still have it) pulling 50# and flinging a 27” Easton xx78 with a 90 grain Puckett’s Bloodtrailer 4-blade.
Shot a doe at 17 yards from a 8’ home-made wooden ladder stand. She was slightly quartered to me. Arrow entered just behind the shoulder and exited in front of the hind quarter.
I vividly remember climbing down, walking to the spot and finding my arrow laying on the ground, I recall thinking “holy cow I actually got her”. I waited about 30 minutes and started tracking, I can still see the blood trail. It wasn’t a lot of blood but was easy to follow to where she laid about 75 yards from the shot.
I remember thinking she may not be big enough and nervous what my dad would think. Dad had taken me that morning and he just went to his stand and sat with a camera while I hunted. I walked across the 160 to his stand and told him I got one. He was really excited and to my relief not at all concerned about it’s size. He was more excited than me when I took him to her.
No, I don’t recall hearing the arrow hit, I do remember that I watched her run off and when she disappeared I realized I was still holding my bow up and my release hand at my face.
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My first archery deer was a little six point that kept coming and standing directly under my tree stand. I was 17' up and passed him several times during the day, but finally couldn't resist. He was straight down, I mean the arrow like a plumb line almost off the rest. Arrow passed between his shoulder blades, through his heart, and stopped on the inside of his sternum with a loud halloween-pumpkin-getting-smashed thump. His short sprint ended with him cartwheeling spectacularly; think he died at a dead run. The sound of that crash is also in my indelibly etched in my memory.
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