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I am making this post on a couple forums since I feel this is important...it is at the very least important to me.
I was dressing, scraping actually, a leather hone tonight with the spine of my newly acquired from trade, and freshly sharpened Bark River Huntsman (didn't need much given it was already pretty darn sharp) when I made a slight slip and cut the back heel of my hand behind my thumb. It was really nothing major except for one thing...it didn't stop bleeding. As I applied pressure for a fairly long time to keep the blood from continuing, I had a visual from a Cabela's magazine of this really wicked advertisement...think Dark Ops on a bowhunter level...of this super scary serrated broadhead and how they made it out to be this devastating object of destruction. I then looked back down at the wound I just caused myself, thought about the deer I have taken with near Barkie sharpness and a PLAIN EDGE broadhead and chuckled briefly before applying a band aid and sitting back down at my computer to make this post.
Now, keep in mind, I am the first person to jump in line to say I am a hunter who wants a VERY swift death of whatever I take. I call it the SSS or Short Shaft Syndrome by which I kill an animal. I want a very short and very heavy blood trail and I expect myself to make such a kill whenever I go out. My targets receive thousands of arrows a year...ten's of thousands actually...and I expect nothing less than to hit vitals, regardless of range, and hear a crash within 50 yards. How does this happen? Simple. All one has to do is simply nick themselves with a piece of glass, a razor while shaving, or a well sharpened knife and it will be quite evident what happens when flesh meets scary sharp. The blood does not stop. Now, take a scrape, road rash or a tear and the wound QUICKLY coagulates into a blood flowing stoppage and the worry is over. Is anyone seeing where this is going?
I am making this post for one reason. Hunting season is coming up very fast in many states including mine. I am going to be quite blunt and say I believe a serrated broadhead for bowhunting is the WORST imaginable tool a sane and sporting hunter can use and I abhor the fact that many higher end markets promote, manufacture and sell such and instrument. It tears flesh, it does not slice it.
Kill an animal this year and hunt well. Do it humanely, intelligently, as swiftly as possible and with a WELL placed shot. The tools are in front of you to decide on and use. Make a good choice.:thumbup::thumbup:
I was dressing, scraping actually, a leather hone tonight with the spine of my newly acquired from trade, and freshly sharpened Bark River Huntsman (didn't need much given it was already pretty darn sharp) when I made a slight slip and cut the back heel of my hand behind my thumb. It was really nothing major except for one thing...it didn't stop bleeding. As I applied pressure for a fairly long time to keep the blood from continuing, I had a visual from a Cabela's magazine of this really wicked advertisement...think Dark Ops on a bowhunter level...of this super scary serrated broadhead and how they made it out to be this devastating object of destruction. I then looked back down at the wound I just caused myself, thought about the deer I have taken with near Barkie sharpness and a PLAIN EDGE broadhead and chuckled briefly before applying a band aid and sitting back down at my computer to make this post.
Now, keep in mind, I am the first person to jump in line to say I am a hunter who wants a VERY swift death of whatever I take. I call it the SSS or Short Shaft Syndrome by which I kill an animal. I want a very short and very heavy blood trail and I expect myself to make such a kill whenever I go out. My targets receive thousands of arrows a year...ten's of thousands actually...and I expect nothing less than to hit vitals, regardless of range, and hear a crash within 50 yards. How does this happen? Simple. All one has to do is simply nick themselves with a piece of glass, a razor while shaving, or a well sharpened knife and it will be quite evident what happens when flesh meets scary sharp. The blood does not stop. Now, take a scrape, road rash or a tear and the wound QUICKLY coagulates into a blood flowing stoppage and the worry is over. Is anyone seeing where this is going?
I am making this post for one reason. Hunting season is coming up very fast in many states including mine. I am going to be quite blunt and say I believe a serrated broadhead for bowhunting is the WORST imaginable tool a sane and sporting hunter can use and I abhor the fact that many higher end markets promote, manufacture and sell such and instrument. It tears flesh, it does not slice it.
Kill an animal this year and hunt well. Do it humanely, intelligently, as swiftly as possible and with a WELL placed shot. The tools are in front of you to decide on and use. Make a good choice.:thumbup::thumbup:
