redheadshooter said:
I don't have any personal experience with Rage. Just never cared for them personally. I bought one pack and never shot a deer with them. But the people I have seen shoot them NORMALLY have huge exit wounds. I shoot the 2" cut Grim Reapers and they leave an exit wound the size of a coke can. I've heard the Tekan T3 will do the same.
I still don't understand how the exit wounds can be "huge?" Have you looked at the circumference of a Rage's once it has been deployed? Its 3/4ths of an inch diameter at that point. How can it leave a huge exit wound? Entrance wound, yes. Exit wounds, no.
I used Rage's for 4 seasons, killed multiple deer with them, some at very steep angles, but only once ever had a complete "pass through" shot while shooting a 70# bow. I had excellent entrance wounds, but would generally loose a lot of energy upon deployment and generally find the arrow had stopped upon exiting. I never saw an exit woud larger than 3/4th of an inch and do not see how it is possible to consistently have an exit wound larger than the size of the deployed broadhead. Most of the time, the blades were bent beyond repair after a kill shot. The ones that were not bent, didn't resharpen very easily. The O-rings require constant attention and, if you draw and let down your bow, the blades would often skip out of o-rings, meaning that you had to reposition them inorder to draw your bow again.
I liked that they flew like field points. I even convinced myself to defend them on this forum. Most or all criticisms of them are entirely fair: They are cheaply made, they lose significant energy upon deployment, they are flimsy, can be noisy, o-rings are susceptible to damage, they are often times only good for one kill (disposable razors), they are expensive, over hyped, and their marketing campaign is cheesy. But, they do fly like field points and leave huge entry wounds.
