First "bad" Experience with Mechanicals

[fabsroman]

Petey,

I had almost the same thing happen to me a couple of years ago. That was the last deer I shot with a bow because I haven't had the time to fix the problem. I bought the fixed blade broadheads but haven't had the time to play around with the bow.

My doe was a quartering away shot as 9 of them were leaving from under my tree because one of the was stomping and snorting like crazy. Anyway, I put the arrow right behind the shoulder blade. I thought it was a good shot but she ran out of view and I didn't get out of my stand until late because my buddy was hunting about 50 yards further up and he hadn't killed anything yet. The next morning I went to recover the deer because neither he nor I had a flashlight that night (i.e., we were morons). The mechanical broadhead got stuck on the far shoulder and the carbon arrow had broken in half. I found one half of the arrow with a little blood on it where I hit the deer and the other half was still in the deer.

At the end of the day, I'm not too impressed with mechanical broadheads, but I only tried them on that single deer. That shot was less than 20 yards and I shoot a 69 pound bow.