I have not seen a lot of reviews on these broadheads yet. I have had these heads for several months and killed a deer with them last night.
First off my initial thoughts were this: in comparison to the Rage heads of the past the blades seem fairly sharp out of the package. I spent a lot of the summer shooting these heads. Compared to the Rage SC heads the inflight profile is less with these heads. My bow shot the actual heads with my field points out to 80yrds.
After shooting these heads a lot I sharpened the blades with 600grit and 1500grit paper using a stay sharp jig. I was pleasantly surprised at how sharp these blades worked back to. I would put the potential for sharpness of these heads up there with any mechanical I have ever worked with. Additionally a few passes over the paper brought the points to a needle point as well. Out of the package the heads and blades would probably be plenty lethal, however I am a firm believer that your heads should be "shaving sharp". These offer that potential.
Last night I went out to hopefully take a meat deer. Early in the afternoon a lone doe came into 20yards and I took her on a slight quartering away shot through both lungs. This shot leads me to my favorite observation of these heads. The shot produced the kind of almost unnoticed pass through that you offen see with a sharp fixed blade. My primary complaint of every Mechanical head I have shot is the impact is so violent that the game is "shocked" -&; runs as fast and hard as it can. Not so with this head. Clean pass through, slow run, and tipped over. My set up is a 62# Elite Synergy shooting a 400gr arrow about 260fps.
As for wound the entry looked almost indistinguishable from the 2" Rages of the past. The exit looked similar to the entry. A rib was broken on each size. The lungs were destroyed.
Granted one kill means little but all in all I am impressed with The Rage Hypodermic +P. The head still spins true and the blades took a great edge again.
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First off my initial thoughts were this: in comparison to the Rage heads of the past the blades seem fairly sharp out of the package. I spent a lot of the summer shooting these heads. Compared to the Rage SC heads the inflight profile is less with these heads. My bow shot the actual heads with my field points out to 80yrds.
After shooting these heads a lot I sharpened the blades with 600grit and 1500grit paper using a stay sharp jig. I was pleasantly surprised at how sharp these blades worked back to. I would put the potential for sharpness of these heads up there with any mechanical I have ever worked with. Additionally a few passes over the paper brought the points to a needle point as well. Out of the package the heads and blades would probably be plenty lethal, however I am a firm believer that your heads should be "shaving sharp". These offer that potential.
Last night I went out to hopefully take a meat deer. Early in the afternoon a lone doe came into 20yards and I took her on a slight quartering away shot through both lungs. This shot leads me to my favorite observation of these heads. The shot produced the kind of almost unnoticed pass through that you offen see with a sharp fixed blade. My primary complaint of every Mechanical head I have shot is the impact is so violent that the game is "shocked" -&; runs as fast and hard as it can. Not so with this head. Clean pass through, slow run, and tipped over. My set up is a 62# Elite Synergy shooting a 400gr arrow about 260fps.
As for wound the entry looked almost indistinguishable from the 2" Rages of the past. The exit looked similar to the entry. A rib was broken on each size. The lungs were destroyed.
Granted one kill means little but all in all I am impressed with The Rage Hypodermic +P. The head still spins true and the blades took a great edge again.
