Broadhead failure

[Fixit]

Has anyone ever had a mechanical broadhead come apart and result in loosing a deer? I believe this happened to me yesterday, with a rage that had almost no blood trail, with one unbloodied blade laying on the ground where the deer was standing. I saw the fur disturbance,and the shot was good.

[billy_56081]

I had a rocky mountain grim reaper fail on me but in found the deer. The expandable blades sheard off the set screw, luckily it had about a half in wide fixed blade in the tip that passed through.  I found the expandable blades about an inch or two in the entrance

[Fixit]

Judging by the blood trail, or lack thereof, I suspect the other blade may have been flung away at entry, and the wound was little worse than would be done by a field point. Upsetting none the less. Not recovering an animal bugs me, badly, as it should.

[billy_56081]

I believe the broadhead I was using was the 2 bladed version of the rage. Barrie archery 🏹 I believe sold the patent. I think I posted about it many many years ago on the original gbo site.

[Ranger99]

Sorry to hear of that
I've already had my go round with
mechanical /expanding heads.
No more for me

[Lloyd Smale]

ive shot a number of deer with the 125 1.5 rage out my Raven R20 and never had a single issue. one thing i found with them though is you should change out those rubber o rings every year. They do get brittle and break and it allows the broadhead to open in flight. Never shot a deer like that because i was told by another rage user and actually kept some for 2 years and tried them and about half opened in flight.

[teamnelson]

Sorry to hear that my friend - I can imagine how frustrating that must be. The consensus in some of the crossbow forums is that dental bands are better than the factory o-rings, and it seems the thing to do is to swap them out even on a new package as you don't know how old the o-rings are. The higher speed/energy crossbows produce can test the elasticity on those things.