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Rage penetration (abuse?)
dcso3009
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Ok I have an opinion on the Rage 2 blade head now that I have taken a deer with it. They do their job well. I, however, was a little shakey on this one. I misjudged the distance and hit the doe in the spine. It went all the way through the spine, but did not exit. The blades were intact and not bent like I thought they would be. A 2nd arrow to finish off the deer went through 2 ribs, and the shoulder blade with an exit! Again no bent baldes, or damage.
The only bad part of these heads has been mentioned before... You can't change the blades easily. The screw that holds them in gets damaged and you have a hard time to get it out.
The only bad part of these heads has been mentioned before... You can't change the blades easily. The screw that holds them in gets damaged and you have a hard time to get it out.
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First how they look for flight
And here is deployed
Next the offending screw
Here is where it sits. You can see how the load on the blades will damage the threads...
Last one that the head of the allen screw stripped out (please ignore the deer chunks still in the head)
I love my new camera... Awesome Macro!
I like the head, just not the price if they are a one time use.
The screw should be 4-40 or 4-48 according to the handbook. I have to say that its a poor design. Too small of a screw for the force that is exerted on it. It would almost be better to have a pin that you could press in an out to replace the screw.
+1 on pinning it.
The idea of pinning it would work well, wonder why they didn't just do that.
because like a lot of other niche markets, the people designing products are not always someone that can look over a completed design and see the problems. Screws are not designed to have force pushing into the threads. The force of a screw is along the threads, up and down through out the screw. Screws maybe able to be used like the above broadhead, but the screw needs to be larger then a screw with .110 outer diameter. There just isn't enough material there to do any good.
Maybe you need to be on the design team for a broadhead company...[:D]
Bode
I was thinking of trying them out and looked on eBarf and saw bands for the RAGE heads. They are fairly cheap on eBarf. I wasn't aware that the RAGE used bands until then.
Here is another Rage success story that may not have happened with another BH... My co-worker told me he shot his buck (small 8 point) in the throat with his Rage. 40 yard blood trail and deer in hand! I would not want to see anyone duplicate that shot, but the head did it's job.