punch_master
11-06-2006, 12:59 PM
My slick trick experience
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I kept on hearing from alot of sources all the hype about these darn "Slick Trick" broadheads and I just had to plunk down some hard earned green on these broadheads and give them a try by putting them through a deer or two and seeing what the results were. I am a fairly good fan of Muzzy three blades so I got to explain that I was a little sceptical of changing and was probably a little prejudiced against the slick tricks up front. First after I got them home and started building them up I noticed a couple things A) how sharp those little buggers really are. B) How they love to slice up your fingers putting that little jigsaw puzzle together. C) They are really short steeply angled wicked looking things when you compare them to a muzzy that is about twice as long. Well anyway I finally got six of them put together and on arrows without having get more than one transfusion so I was good to go.
Spin test: I found out long ago that if your broadheads wobble when spun you might as well chuck em cause they wont fly for squat at any speed. My Muzzy's in the past usually only wobble after they hit something hard like a rock or a heavy bone. These slick tricks didn't wobble when I was done but it took some fiddling. It seemed to me that the metal washer on back that catches the blades was directionally sensitive. There is two sides to it. One is slightly chamfered and the other is flat. It worked better for me when I put the flat side next to the broadhead and the chamfered side next to the shaft. Don't know why it made a difference only that it did. Oh yeah I always true my arrow inserts using the G5 arrow squaring device first.
Flight test: I shot them at 20 yards and could not see any difference in point of impact or flight characteristics from my muzzys or from my field points for that matter. same same. All is well so far.
Where the rubber hits the road: I'm hunting on Saturday and the plan is to harvest a doe and give it to the FHFH and try out the slick tricks at the same time. 10:04 am and a good sized (for here anyway) 90 lbs doe comes by at 20 yards away. I come to full draw and my darn face mask is keeping me from feeling my kisser button in the corner of my lip. I figure just ignore it and shoot anyway. It's only 20 yrd. How far off can it be? Bow fires and I watch the arrow sail about six inches high and about 4 inches to the rear of where I was aiming. OH OH this could be not a good thing. Deer takes off and I lose sight of it almost immediately as almost always happens where I hunt. I wonder how far this one is gonna go with that marginal hit. Well I go retrieve the arrow and it has went completely through and buried itself about three inches in the ground. Good penetration anyway. I look at the shaft and I see lots and lots of red blood. Thats good. Then I also see greenish brown goo in places. That's not so good. I figure give it about half a hour and just go look to see what kind of blood trail you got. Start looking for blood at 10:30 and at first I don't find any at all. Then I find the trail. LOTS of blood. A trail a blindman could follow. My muzzy hits NEVER bleed this good even with a double lung hit. WOW, all this from a BAD hit? I travel no more than thirty five or forty yards down the proverbial red brick road and almost step on my deer crashed out against a tree. WHAT the heck? Why did it die that quick? I thought I'd be trailing this one half way to the moon. I see the entrance wound. It's frigging huge. Went right through a rib about a inch down from the spine. Broke it clean off. Seems I got a little lucky and caught the main artery that supplies the whole back half of the critter. It bled out in literally seconds. Rolled it over and looked at the exit. Even further back and another busted rib on that side. Big Hole was plugged shut with intestine. That explains the green stuff.
In conclusion I can honestly say that the slick tricks did impress me a whole bunch. That kind of bloodtrail from such a high hit with one side plugged shut should have given a very poor trail but it didn't. That is a sign of a very good broadhead INMHO. I can't wait to see what kind of bloodtrail I get from one I don't muff the shot on. Anyway Slick tricks have earned the punch_master seal of approval.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled broadcast.
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I kept on hearing from alot of sources all the hype about these darn "Slick Trick" broadheads and I just had to plunk down some hard earned green on these broadheads and give them a try by putting them through a deer or two and seeing what the results were. I am a fairly good fan of Muzzy three blades so I got to explain that I was a little sceptical of changing and was probably a little prejudiced against the slick tricks up front. First after I got them home and started building them up I noticed a couple things A) how sharp those little buggers really are. B) How they love to slice up your fingers putting that little jigsaw puzzle together. C) They are really short steeply angled wicked looking things when you compare them to a muzzy that is about twice as long. Well anyway I finally got six of them put together and on arrows without having get more than one transfusion so I was good to go.
Spin test: I found out long ago that if your broadheads wobble when spun you might as well chuck em cause they wont fly for squat at any speed. My Muzzy's in the past usually only wobble after they hit something hard like a rock or a heavy bone. These slick tricks didn't wobble when I was done but it took some fiddling. It seemed to me that the metal washer on back that catches the blades was directionally sensitive. There is two sides to it. One is slightly chamfered and the other is flat. It worked better for me when I put the flat side next to the broadhead and the chamfered side next to the shaft. Don't know why it made a difference only that it did. Oh yeah I always true my arrow inserts using the G5 arrow squaring device first.
Flight test: I shot them at 20 yards and could not see any difference in point of impact or flight characteristics from my muzzys or from my field points for that matter. same same. All is well so far.
Where the rubber hits the road: I'm hunting on Saturday and the plan is to harvest a doe and give it to the FHFH and try out the slick tricks at the same time. 10:04 am and a good sized (for here anyway) 90 lbs doe comes by at 20 yards away. I come to full draw and my darn face mask is keeping me from feeling my kisser button in the corner of my lip. I figure just ignore it and shoot anyway. It's only 20 yrd. How far off can it be? Bow fires and I watch the arrow sail about six inches high and about 4 inches to the rear of where I was aiming. OH OH this could be not a good thing. Deer takes off and I lose sight of it almost immediately as almost always happens where I hunt. I wonder how far this one is gonna go with that marginal hit. Well I go retrieve the arrow and it has went completely through and buried itself about three inches in the ground. Good penetration anyway. I look at the shaft and I see lots and lots of red blood. Thats good. Then I also see greenish brown goo in places. That's not so good. I figure give it about half a hour and just go look to see what kind of blood trail you got. Start looking for blood at 10:30 and at first I don't find any at all. Then I find the trail. LOTS of blood. A trail a blindman could follow. My muzzy hits NEVER bleed this good even with a double lung hit. WOW, all this from a BAD hit? I travel no more than thirty five or forty yards down the proverbial red brick road and almost step on my deer crashed out against a tree. WHAT the heck? Why did it die that quick? I thought I'd be trailing this one half way to the moon. I see the entrance wound. It's frigging huge. Went right through a rib about a inch down from the spine. Broke it clean off. Seems I got a little lucky and caught the main artery that supplies the whole back half of the critter. It bled out in literally seconds. Rolled it over and looked at the exit. Even further back and another busted rib on that side. Big Hole was plugged shut with intestine. That explains the green stuff.
In conclusion I can honestly say that the slick tricks did impress me a whole bunch. That kind of bloodtrail from such a high hit with one side plugged shut should have given a very poor trail but it didn't. That is a sign of a very good broadhead INMHO. I can't wait to see what kind of bloodtrail I get from one I don't muff the shot on. Anyway Slick tricks have earned the punch_master seal of approval.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled broadcast.