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Broadheads for elk?
- Thread starter jakhammer
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I think any good fixed blade that you can get to fly perfectly will work. A 2 blade broadhead like Iron Wills, Cutthroats, etc will be best for penetration. I am going to be trying the 1 inch version of Tooth of the Arrow broadhead. If those don't fly well, I'll try Iron Wills.
Spend the extra time to properly tune your bow and bare shaft tuning really really helps to get your best arrow flight. Properly timing your cams is really important as well.
I would shy away from mechanicals but that is just my opinion. I know some guys use them and have good success with elk. I have used them and had great success on whitetails. I just think elk are in a league above whitetails and a fixed blade should be used.
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Spend the extra time to properly tune your bow and bare shaft tuning really really helps to get your best arrow flight. Properly timing your cams is really important as well.
I would shy away from mechanicals but that is just my opinion. I know some guys use them and have good success with elk. I have used them and had great success on whitetails. I just think elk are in a league above whitetails and a fixed blade should be used.
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I am certainly not the voice of experience on killing elk as I have only killed one. I killed it with a G5 Deadmeat rear deploy mechanical. The shot was a pretty fair quarter and probably travelled 2/3rds of the body length of the elk. We picked the arrow up 10 yards on the other side of where the elk was at the shot. She went about 70 and was down. That said, the above advice to stay with COC or fixed heads is sound as is the post from Homebrew about having your bow and arrow setup as tuned as possible.