I have the 100 grain Swackers and if you are using the bands they provide they will not open in flight. If I was worried I would just add a dental band also as extra insurance.
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I have the 150gr 3" cut. I killed gobblers with them but not any deer, just because i used the FOC broadhead. I plan to use them out of the BD 360 this fall for deer.
I tested them a lot before hunting with them. I never had one open in flight or fail to open on/in whatever i shot them into. One huge plus imo is they don't open until there in the deer. Saving the sharpness of the blades until there in the boiler room plus still giving a left bevel 1" 2 blade cut. They are very accurate and fly super.
It is possible if you hit something hard going in. The nose can bend and fowl the blades. It took a white oak board for me to get this to happen. I'll add in 45 years of bowhunting i have never hit a big bone going in. With well over a 100 deer under my belt.
You can use heat shrink (don't heat it just cut and slip it over) from the hardware store and it works fine. I just bought enough for a lifetime of the white shrinkwrap for mine.
I don't know if Swhacker still does this or not. And this info is on there Q&A page and i called them. Some of the heads have oil on them from the factory. This will cause the Heat shrink band to fail. Simple fix just to be safe clean the heads and replace the bands that come on the heads from the factory.
Best i can recall that's the good bad and ugly LOL.
Look at the Levi Morgan #269 before you buy. I might switch
. You can lock the blades closed so you can shot every arrow with the exact head you will be hunting. Plus they make i guess its rubber or something that you put in the same hole used to lock it closed. And if i understood right it replaces the need for the band.
Check them out 2.5" cut too and they make smaller cutting too.
I tested them a lot before hunting with them. I never had one open in flight or fail to open on/in whatever i shot them into. One huge plus imo is they don't open until there in the deer. Saving the sharpness of the blades until there in the boiler room plus still giving a left bevel 1" 2 blade cut. They are very accurate and fly super.
It is possible if you hit something hard going in. The nose can bend and fowl the blades. It took a white oak board for me to get this to happen. I'll add in 45 years of bowhunting i have never hit a big bone going in. With well over a 100 deer under my belt.
You can use heat shrink (don't heat it just cut and slip it over) from the hardware store and it works fine. I just bought enough for a lifetime of the white shrinkwrap for mine.
I don't know if Swhacker still does this or not. And this info is on there Q&A page and i called them. Some of the heads have oil on them from the factory. This will cause the Heat shrink band to fail. Simple fix just to be safe clean the heads and replace the bands that come on the heads from the factory.
Best i can recall that's the good bad and ugly LOL.
Look at the Levi Morgan #269 before you buy. I might switch
. You can lock the blades closed so you can shot every arrow with the exact head you will be hunting. Plus they make i guess its rubber or something that you put in the same hole used to lock it closed. And if i understood right it replaces the need for the band. Check them out 2.5" cut too and they make smaller cutting too.
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