Sorry but until you find the deer (if you do) and show me the two pencil holes on both sides I just reject these it didn't open stories that are based on nothing more than not finding the deer and the head being closed after a pass through. Most mech heads close again after a pass through or as you pull them from the ground. But even a closed head through the lungs or heart would equal a dead deer. Can you open the head with your fingers? If so then there is no reason it would not open on a deer.

Also people lose deer all the time with fixed heads too. In fact since there are way more people using fixed heads than mechs (heck I still use them too) I'd bet you that "more" deer are hit and lost with fixed heads. It's just in those cases the hunter knows they can't run to the internet and find a group of people who will throw their arms around them and let them dog the lost deer off on the broadhead.

If you don't find the deer, you don't know what happened. People should have a decal on their truck windows that say that. I can't count the number of times I have helped a friend or family member look for a difficult to find deer that was "Hit Good" only to discover when we actually found it that "uh oh", it wasn't hit so good after all. If that has been the case with the ones we found then I'm going out on a short limb and bet that it's also the case with the ones that we didn't find. 99% of lost deer, despite all the excuses and misplaced blame are actually due to bad shot placement.

Last edited by Todd1700; 10/23/11 09:21 AM.
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