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Short version - I had 3 IronWill broadheads and their performance, flight and penetration was something above any broadhead I have used in the past…. However, I recover about half the arrows I shoot in the woods and swamps I hunt in. Is it worth it to spend the money and get more IronWill? Or stick with cheaper ones that also perform well? I mean… what’s $20 extra bucks when I spend $xxxx on fuel, travel, gear…..
you can skip the rest, just giving the details and backstory on the situation.
So I found 3 used iron will broadheads that needed sharpened and thought I would give them a try because the price wasn’t too bad vs new, but still high enough to put them in the price range of my other broadheads. Out of the three, one was bad enough I used it as a practice head and got the other two back to a razor edge. I can say, I liked them a lot. They flew perfect, sunk into my target a good bit better than my normal broadheads and I had a lot of confidence in their performance and they were on my #1 and #2 arrows. Arrow #1 was shot and lost, I spent a lot of time looking for it… and #2 I sunk into a deer with amazing performance, I couldn’t have asked for anything better from a broadhead, however it lodged in the spine and I couldn’t get it out and didn’t have a saw to remove it at the time and had to leave it behind when I packed it out. It made me think of how many arrows I actually recover when shooting it at game. Most shots pass thru or not, I figure 50% of my shots I have recovered arrows and probably due to the types of spots I pick being very thick and swampy bottoms. My last 6 deer, 3 pass thru shots and arrows not recovered (and I looked hard for most of them), one stuck in a spine. 2/6 arrows recovered.
I don’t need new broadheads, I still have a few less expensive broadheads that will work and fly great for less than half the cost of the Ironwill. But boy did they give me a confidence boost using them and knowing how they perform, but it’s so tough to throw a $40 broadhead attached to a $10-15 arrow out into the woods every once in a while and not find it.
you can skip the rest, just giving the details and backstory on the situation.
So I found 3 used iron will broadheads that needed sharpened and thought I would give them a try because the price wasn’t too bad vs new, but still high enough to put them in the price range of my other broadheads. Out of the three, one was bad enough I used it as a practice head and got the other two back to a razor edge. I can say, I liked them a lot. They flew perfect, sunk into my target a good bit better than my normal broadheads and I had a lot of confidence in their performance and they were on my #1 and #2 arrows. Arrow #1 was shot and lost, I spent a lot of time looking for it… and #2 I sunk into a deer with amazing performance, I couldn’t have asked for anything better from a broadhead, however it lodged in the spine and I couldn’t get it out and didn’t have a saw to remove it at the time and had to leave it behind when I packed it out. It made me think of how many arrows I actually recover when shooting it at game. Most shots pass thru or not, I figure 50% of my shots I have recovered arrows and probably due to the types of spots I pick being very thick and swampy bottoms. My last 6 deer, 3 pass thru shots and arrows not recovered (and I looked hard for most of them), one stuck in a spine. 2/6 arrows recovered.
I don’t need new broadheads, I still have a few less expensive broadheads that will work and fly great for less than half the cost of the Ironwill. But boy did they give me a confidence boost using them and knowing how they perform, but it’s so tough to throw a $40 broadhead attached to a $10-15 arrow out into the woods every once in a while and not find it.