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OK numbnuts.....I guess you missed this part.

I hunt with about 10 other guys on occasion and we share many many results so I do infact have a bunch of mechanical experience.....wanna know something? in our group the mechanical vs fixed blade is a common talked about subject and in our case most of our lost/unrecovered deer have been shot with mechanicals and very few with fixed blades.

I'm talking 15 years of 10 or more guys results every year is compared and we ALL but one have gone back to fixed blades....and the guy who hasnt usually loses 2-3 deer a year...and the rest of us guys are getting sick of it! mad That last sentence.......it wasnt just 1 mechanical we all tested....it was just about EVERY one ever come up with.

So YES...I have been there and have done that!!!
Unlike others I base my thoughts/choices on actual experience....BUT like I said "do whatever floats your boat!"

If you would quit reading and start doing maybe YOU too will be able to come up with YOUR OWN conclusions....not noone elses.








Then again....maybe not.

Kid, if you looking for sympathy you're in the wrong place. Round here, we live off of real world results. Not something put together in a studio or on a computer with some fancy graphics program. There are those of us that have been around the block a time or two and have made some mistakes and have learned from them. Our goal is to keep others from making those same mistakes. We dont pull punches and we aint pollitically correct. So if you got your pantys in a wad cause what you were told wasnt what you wanted to hear, I feel for ya. But go ahead and do your own thing. And when that cracker or swacker or whatever its called fails, do come back and tell us about it. We'll be waitin for ya

I am having problems with my slick tricks...........they only cut a hole the size of a shotgun slug, 1 1/8 inch to be exact.

*Grin*

Muzzy's for me. Lots of deer and rodents, 5 turkeys and 2 elk....no problems so far. 20 yrs ??? Had one deer get away, but it wasn't a broadhead problem . I'd prolly squirrel hunt with mechanicals, maybe do some kitty management around the house

If I want to get some venison, damn sure won't be with a mech tip.

Shiloh Ranch in Oklahoma, a hog hunting spot that I frequent, prohibits mechanicals, with the exception of that NAP head that just spreads out the blades on contact. One fellow recently said he had one that would blow clean through a hog. Well, they had a good boar on the rack, so he tried....2" of penetration or so. The 3 blade fixed head flew through and disappeared.

You owe it to the animal to use a good, sharp fixed head broadhead for a quick kill, and not to follow the advertising hype on the TV shows.

I fell into the "mechanical hype"...fly like a field tip BS and had to trail a deer that was hit Perfectly, just behind the shoulder..quartering away...I've seen deer drop within 15 to 20 yrds. from the same shot with my fixed blades. What I found when I finally retrieved this animal was that on entry one of the blades had busted off and the the other was bent. This was the 1st and last animal I ever shot with a Mech Broadhead!!! I shoot the "G2 Montec 100g", resharpen them every year...deadly!
Mechanicals are for people who dont take the time to "tune" their Bow's to shoot a Fixed blade....my Montec's shoot like field points, the Key?...Practice, Practice Practice...then go into the woods!

All good and valid points. All I was saying earlier is that I asked about one specific broadhead and asked if anyone had any experience with it. I never said I didn't have any experience with any mechanical or fixed. Quite the contrary. I have experience with both. I just have limited experience with mechanicals and none with the schwacker machanical. That is the question I asked.
Tom calls me numbnuts because I pointed out that he hijacked this thread and he should have never replied. I asked for specific experience with one brand of broadhead. If soemone can find where I asked it mechanicals were a good choice, I will say I am wrong.
I am 99% certain that I am going to use the 125g Thunderheads anyways. Again, I was just asking about one specific broadhead because I know the issues with mechanicals. Some of you guys are just goobers!

By the way, if anyone is actually using a schwacker broadhead, besides Hank Parker, and would like to give me some feedback on it, feel free to do so. Otherwise, this thread can slowly go away.

I called you numbnuts because you assumed I have only have used/experience with 1 mechanical broadhead.

Thats all.

Now if your going to use the Thunderheads, those are a decent broadhead.

Well, at least I have chosen a "decent" broadhead in the past. I must have been able to feel my nads back when I bought them.