Slick Trick Broadhead vs Shoulder Bone

[hauscaliber]

Shoulder bone 1 - Slick Trick 0

The buck I got this weekend was a quartering away shot where the arrow went thru the vitals and directly hit the inside of the opposite shoulder bone. The shoulder stopped my 450 grain arrow with a slick trick magnum. The steel ferrule and aluminum outsert was bent badly and it also cracked the arrow. I'm shooting a 70# 29" draw compound bow.

I learned that the shoulder bone is no joke.

I'll still use slick tricks since the blood trail was massive and the deer only went about 60 yards.

 

[Newhunter1]

It did it's job.

 

[woodsdog2]

Isn't it just amazing how tough deer can be????? That broadhead looks pretty good for going through all of that IMHO.

 

[Labonte.r]

my cousin shot a bruiser with 12 gauge in shoulder and lost it. Luckily he caught up with same deer week later and harvested him. Slug never went through shoulder. I tend to stay away from them for sure especially with a bow. Granted it’s easier said than done but I tend not to go for heart shots and try to recommend the same to friends. Too small a target and it’s very well protected for the most part. I’ve personally never seen a double lung deer that didn’t die quickly and lot less in the way.

 

[DelaWhere_Arrow]

Did you recover all the pieces? Don’t want any steel shards in your venison...

 

[hauscaliber]

Did you recover all the pieces? Don’t want any steel shards in your venison...

Yeah it was all found. Nothing like biting into some metal lol.

 

[Allegheny Tom]

It can be one of the down sides to quartering away angles. The far shoulder often prevents an exit hole. Near side can be a high entrance and no exit because of the shoulder sometimes leaves a sparse blood trail. Deer hit like that may bleed as much from the nose as much as the wound itself.
Blowing blood out the nose usually leaves a higher blood trail on foliage and smaller blood drops.

 

[hauscaliber]

It can be one of the down sides to quartering away angles. The far shoulder often prevents an exit hole. Near side can be a high entrance and no exit because of the shoulder sometimes leaves a sparse blood trail. Deer hit like that may bleed as much from the nose as much as the wound itself.
Blowing blood out the nose usually leaves a higher blood trail on foliage and smaller blood drops.

That was spot on. More blood came out of his nose than the wound and it was all over the vegetation.

 

[PaTrout1]

Shoulder bone 1 - Slick Trick 0

The buck I got this weekend was a quartering away shot where the arrow went thru the vitals and directly hit the inside of the opposite shoulder bone. The shoulder stopped my 450 grain arrow with a slick trick magnum. The steel ferrule and aluminum outsert was bent badly and it also cracked the arrow. I'm shooting a 70# 29" draw compound bow.

I learned that the shoulder bone is no joke.

I'll still use slick tricks since the blood trail was massive and the deer only went about 60 yards.View attachment 16828

I hit a doe at 50yds within original style Rage 2 blade square in the shoulder blade. It OBLITERATED the shoulder facing me and stopped at the opposite shoulder. She ran 30yds and piled up. I say obliterated because when I was gutting her I reached in to grab the heart and trachea and grabbed what I thought was pieces of the broad head (freaked me out, I thought I was gonna pull my hand out cut to ribbons) but it turned out to be chunks of bone. I was amazed.

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[mattsteg]

I hit a doe at 50yds within original style Rage 2 blade square in the shoulder blade. It OBLITERATED the shoulder facing me and stopped at the opposite shoulder. She ran 30yds and piled up. I say obliterated because when I was gutting her I reached in to grab the heart and trachea and grabbed what I thought was pieces of the broad head (freaked me out, I thought I was gonna pull my hand out cut to ribbons) but it turned out to be chunks of bone. I was amazed.

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Shoulder impacts are a bit of a roll of the dice. Hit it right and everything shatters, hit it wrong and just a thud. As long at the broadhead stays intact and isn't a "clearly stupid" design, it did its job.