In my experience ,which granted isnt a lot, the CS heads are slightly easier to sharpen. I have cut myself with both and both cuts hurt:smile:

 

I thnk the answer is yes. They seem sharped out I'd the box and carbon steel is always easier to put and edge on the stainless. Althought it also gets dull faster too but you only need to shoot it once then resharpen.

 

I own both, and actually prefer the regular Montecs over the CS Montecs. I don't like having to put oil on the carbon steel heads, and the stainless heads seemed just as sharp to me.

They're not razor blades, so don't expect to shave with them. But they're plenty sharp to cut through anything you shoot at. Easy to re-sharpen as well, just use a flat diamond stone.

 

To me, the only difference is $5 (per 3). I'll stick with the Montec.

 

I have been shooting Montecs a couple years now and was glad to see the CS's. I do a good bit of knife work and can tell you that a good quality carbon-steel is generally better for cutting than stainless steel. Stainless steel has a lot of chromium in it to resist corrosion, and chromium takes away some of the good edge-retension / abraision-resistance of higher % carbon steels. When I got my Montes CS's I noticed they where pretty sharp right out of the box. I touched them up a little more before I took them out to the field ( I can never resist...the first thing I do when I buy a new knife is sharpen it, no matter how sharp it was when I bought it). I missed a buck this season (under-shot, miss-judged yardage). When I recovered my BH out of the dirt, I studied it and found it held up to the abraisiveness of the dirt better than its stainless counterparts.

I did get a little surface corrosion on them this winter out in the snow, but I didn't worry too much about it. Now that the season is over, I just polished the corrosion off, applied a little Rem. oil to them, and set them asside for next season.

 

I looked at the CS today and I like them.

 

Stainless Montecs are not that sharp out of the package and they do not sharpen easily. I have not tried the CS Montec. Montecs fly awsome, so i would love to get that head razor sharp. If you want to keep them bleeding the broadhead needs to be very sharp.

 

Why would G5 make a CS montec that is exactly the same broadhead as the stainless counterpart if there wasnt a sharpness issue. Just saying hmmmm.

 

So the G5's are sharper??....

 

G5 makes two versions of the Montec, a carbon steel version and a stainless version. The carbon steel version was offered to be a sharper and more easily sharpened version of the Montec. The downfall is the carbon steel version will rust.

 

Thanks for the info about the CS heads, and rusting...I will have to keep an eye on that when I put them in the quiver!

 

Give Nap Hell Razors a try. Just about identical to Montecs, but sharpen easily. You get 4 for the price of 3 Montecs. I love Montecs, but the Hell Razors are cheaper, and actually sharpen well.

 

I've been using regular Montecs for quite a while, but I bought some Hell Razors this year. They were a lot sharper out of the box. The Hell Razors were sharper out of the box than I can get my Montecs after working on them.

 

I have killed with both and both are great heads. The CS's might be slightly sharper out of the package, but both kill!

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