main issue.. you need to be using mechanical to make up for the light lbs pull

I don’t trust mechanicals with a 70lb bow. I’m not gunna have my wife shoot them with 40lbs. Way to much resistance on empact to open the blades.

Navasot what mechanical other than possibly the low KE from rage will open and penetrate well from a low poundage bow < 45lbs draw?

Saw a picture yesterday of a proud kid with his first deer, spike double lunged at 24 yards arrow dropped the exit side at 20 yards of the run, deer went 40 yards. I setup his bow 2 years ago when he was 8, adjusted it for him before this season. In those 2 years he went up 1.5 inches on draw and 15lbs on weight to 24.5 and 37 lbs respectively. Setup Easton 500 spine arrows with 100gr G5 Montec. It was a very proud Grandpa showing the picture.

I have seen enough of those type pics and stories using 500 or in some cases 600 spine arrows with either Magnus Stingers or Montechs to recommend much else. Combination works if they can shoot

Any banded type mechanical will open up fine with low poundage bows just don’t plan on shooting over 20-30 yards.. which i don’t like doing on deer anyway. Penatation is something that is misread. From the outer skin to the vitals of most deer your talking a few inches.. shot placement is key

Don’t trust them on a 70lb bow...

I’ll just leave lol

Nav I do not disagree with you on the rubber band held ones or magnetic ones opening easy but penetration is what I worry about with them. Tracked one with my dog over a quarter mile for a kid that used a mechanical with the rubber bands, by the time it went through the skin and 2 ribs it only got part of one lung. We got her and it was easy for the dog but not sure I could have worked out the blood trail and they had given up when I got a call.

It was a good shot slightly quartering away and looked like if more penetration would have been there they most likely would have seen her fall after running almost 100 yards across a field. The kid was 12 and IIRC shooting a little under 40 lbs at a 24 inch draw.

That’s fine, you can leave. I don’t like them do to the fact I’ve lost a deer one a mechanical. Why add something that very easily can fail? I’ve had them open during flight, completely missing my target, have had them not open, or just flat out brake. I’m glad you like them and work good for you. Me personally won’t ever use them again, nor recommend them. I think people jump to them just because they can’t tune a fix blade, or don’t want to mess with there sights out of season to shoot practice tips instead of Broadheads. Just my opinion not trying to pick a argument