The Bear Archery Podcast Ep. 191: Broadhead Breakdown

Dylan is joined by Bryan Broderick from Day Six Gear to give you a COMPLETE guide to broadheads! Shapes, sizes, designs, functionality, material, and EVERYTHING in between! The goal: give you a complete guide to making the most educated choice about your broadhead selection!
At the end of the day, the broadhead you choose is the FIRST thing to come in contact with the animal, and often times, the ONLY thing to come in contact with the animal. So, shouldn’t it be the MOST considered part of our gear?
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[@robertmanore9797]

But we actually see the rotation in ballistic jell with single bevel to be way more.The other theory is that causes disruptions in the wound path and actually has been proven to be so.At my age I am not as agreeable as I once was.They do make single bevel kitchen knives by the way.And I do believe they would pry on bone better and the wood splitting analogy doesn't hold water either as I would only take a tour through the mall splitting section at the hardware store to see the amount of different attempts with configurations to do so.

[@alaskatruoutdoors9238]

“Name one knife with a single bevel” How bout the seax? Arguably the most famous knife in history. Because it’s really, really sharp lol.

[@paulmendolia8483]

shot placement before everything.

[@paulheberling2750]

Great episode. Love the arrow info. Big fan of Bryan.
Curious what you think the grains to pounds ratio is for crossbows? Like a 70 lb compound should be 560 grain arrow at 8gr / lb. Would that mean a crossbow would be 2,400 grains for 300lb draw? Super curious. Thanks

[@Hawkbalz]

Read the Ashby reports. The 12 factors. It will open your eyes to the arrow systems.

[@paulheberling2750]

Weight/mass jumps before foc when encountering heavy bone material

[@ashadow315]

Wow…Seriously just WOW… So I guess 30+ years and hundreds and hundreds of arrows in culled buffalo testing broad heads, arrow weights, and FOC mean nothing…
Sorry, I can’t get behind that at all. We can see the rotation of single bevel heads in gel, you can witness it in slow motion just pushing a head through a potato vs pushing a double bevel through it. My Kayuga 175s have A LOT of bevel surface area on them, and will literally blow a sweet potato in half before it fully penetrates it. Lusk shows a 600 grain Scientific Method literally blowing a 4x4 in half while the Bishop high end three blade just stuck in it. They do rotate, which opens the wound channel and reduces friction during penetration, especially on hard materials. That’s 100% fact. The bone can’t stand the rotational forces applied to it and shatters. There are pics all over the net of moose bones split laterally for 12” or more from a single bevel impact. Granted their edges are not as strong but steel quality helps with that. Tool steel is a different animal from stainless.
Ranch Fairy has ALWAYS advocated using the right spine and flat out says you need to start at 300 and 250 spine if you are gonna put the weight up front.
Where you put the weight does make a difference. Using a lighter insert and a heavier head puts more weight on the end of the arrow. That’s simple physics. Don’t believe it makes a difference? Balance an arrow with a small weight 1/2 inch down the shaft from the insert and then move it to the very end of the insert on that same balance point. I guarantee the arrow will no longer be balanced. Now imaging the difference with a 200 grain head and a light insert versus a heavy insert with a 100 grain head.
Shot Placement with a structurally sound and tuned arrow above all else, I can agree on 100%. I can agree that adding chips makes stacks, but there is so much in here that is absolutely wrong it’s just hard to over look.
I’ve killed elk with low 400 grain arrows and light broadheads going 300fps and I’ve killed them with 602 grain arrow with a single bevel. They both worked and resulted in dead elk.
Go shove a good high quality single bevel into a potato and the try it with a double bevel head and see which one is easiest….