Worst Broadhead


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Re: Worst Broadhead

I had a hard time getting a Muzzy 3 blade to fly good for me. I was shooting very fast bow with really really light arrows and they plained like crazy. (I was going for one pin good out to 35 yards. Which I achieved with that set up.)

I switched to mechancals and never went back.

I now shoot heavier arrows and a bit slower and have huge KE but got use to the mech heads.

I have never ever had any troubles with them on either bow set up and just stick with what works for me.

I was disappointed about the Muzzy heads too, heck I named one of my cats Muzzy because of them.

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Re: Worst Broadhead

Plaining can happen, mainly with fixed blade broad heads. The wind catches the blades almost like airplane wings. The arrow being to light and traveling to fast can cause the broad head to fly around erratically and not straight.

One shot would be like 4" low and 5" left and the next would be 3" high and 4" right. All at 20 yards.

Not good.

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b-heads don't plain, atleast not to the extent that most people say. The reason most people say this is because there bow and/or set-up isn't tuned properly. Sometimes it is because they need to adjust there arrow rest/nocking point, other times they need to tune the b-head to the arrow, which is something that most people don't do. Tuning your arrows is important to get good arrow flight. All you really need is a good arrow spinner to check and make sure that everything spins true. Sometimes, inserts aren't set in properly and the b-heads create a wobble because they aren't seated properly. This causes the "plaining" effect but it usually isn't blamed for this because most people don't check for it.

If you can't get a fixed blade b-head to fly straight, then you need to tune your entire set-up. I have shot 125 grain 4-blade Muzzys from my BowTech at over 280 f.p.s. and they were grouping perfectly with my field points. The reason was that my bow was tuned properly. Do your paper tuning, then group tune. After that, get correctly spined arrows and broadhead combo's that will give you a F.O.C. in the 10-14% range. After that, tune your arrows, like I mentioned above, and you should have b-heads grouping perfectly with field points at all distances.

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BM007, I've got to disagree with you on this, to some extent. Yes, you can get your some broadheads to group with your field tips, but not all of them. But, you do get planeing with broadheads. If it was an arrow set up wrong or my bow, I'd see it in the arrow flight, by squirrel tailing, fish tailing, or porpoising. Out of all the years I've been shooting, I have only seen two bows that have hit close(1" difference) to where the fields tips did. The planeing comes from the braodhead not align or off-set from the fletchings correctly. They'll fight against one another and cause the arrow to go off flight. Yes, I agree that spine, weight, speed, and set-up have alot to do with this as well. But, don't blame anyone for not having there bow, rest, and arrows not set up properly, because I think I know how to do that.

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