Originally Posted By: RubenatorWell?
First, another success story. Needed meat and had a big doe give me a 30 yard broadside shot and blew one through her heart. She ran 80 yds and piled up. Never did find the arrow. Last Tues. I hunted the same stand, which is in a real nice funnel. A half hour before dark here comes a freak buck, which I had passed on and got video of a week earlier. I decided to shoot it with it being my last bowhunt before gun season and still needing some more meat. He was a perfect 4 points on one side and just a beam wrapped around his ear and under his chin on the other. If the sides were matched, he would gross about 140" as an 8 pt. and probably 4 years old and about 200 pounds. He stops in the exact spot as the doe. I draw back, settle the 30 yard pin behind his shoulder and drop the string on the Mathews. Arrow hits him right where I was aiming. He spins to take off for the field and I see the arrow fall out his other side, giving me a pass through. With every reason to think he's dead, I took up the trail. Pick up my arrow and notice the Rage 2 blade had no blades at all! The head had come apart at impact. I found one blade next to the arrow. Took awile to find blood but had a good trail for about 300 yards. Lost the trail in a wet area and decided to back out until morning. It rained that night so I thought I'd just look for the deer and not to expect blood. Kicked around a small thick spot several hundred yards from the last of the blood and run him out. He's again bleeding good and heading in the direction of my truck. He'd gone about a half mile at this point. He swims a swollen creek and I lose blood again. I checked one small spot on the edge of a field and kick him up again. Now he runs across the field and within 40 yards of my truck! I found his bed and no blood, but found blood where he ran by the truck. I decide to wait 'til the next day and not push him. It rained again that night so I'm not expecting blood. Thanksgiving morning marked day three of the chase. I pick up spotty blood for about 100 yards then nothing. It's a narrow creek bottom with a field on one side and a subdivision on the other. I covered all the timber and glassed the fields with no sign of him. My guess is he's still running around unless a gun hunter got him over the weekend. I'm convinced that deer would be in my garage if I hit him with a quality head. Bottom line? I'M DONE WITH RAGE HEADS. They are cheaply built and super expensive. I hunt way too hard and have too much respect for the animals I hunt to leave things up to chance, especially not knowing if my broadhead will fall to pieces. I'll either try Slick Tricks or Montecs next. I've always had good success with Thunderheads, but they don't seem to fly real well out of my Mathews. Good arrow flight is about the ONLY thing I have good to say about the Rage.