2 blade rage wound pcs (graphic)

[darrellva]

I been reading the thread about which broadheads to use and I thought this might help those that has not seen what kind of damage the rage does. I shot Thunderheads for years then went to Bear's, Then I went to the 3 blade muzzy and shot them for the past 5 years but this season I decided to try the rage. I am not one for mechanical bh cause anythime you add moving parts you add more chance for something to go wrong. I studied the rage head and looked at them several times before buying. I like the concept of the blades sliding back instead of opening backwards. I took three deer this year with the rage broadhead and the furtherest one went 80 yards and it was a hard angle away shot. I had to hit her pretty farm back to get the angle I needed and only took out one lung. The other two was short runs one went less then 40 yards and the other went 15 yards. Here is a few pics of the wounds and of the bloodtrails these 2 blade rages leave.





in hole

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out hole

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[jamar]

I want to try the rage (3 blade) broadhead so bad because of pics like that! But I just trust my muzzys too much. Maybe this fall...

[marshallgrn]

i used rage 2 blade last season for the first time and i had simular results, will NEVER hunt with any other broadhead again

[Drop-time]

Thanks for sharin the pics. Dont mean to sound arrogent but ive been seein this kind of thing for nearly 10 years with the deer ive shot. I shoot a Rocky MT. gator head 2 blade 2inch cut. This broadhead never quite gained poularity and Rocky Mt. unfortunately discontinued it. The Rage 2 blade is still fairly new to the market..but is very,very similar in design to my old standby. The Rage was marketed and advertised way better. Ive never had a deflection, I get great penetration and like your pictures show "horror flick" results on the ground. I like them so much I stocked up from bass-pro when they discontiued..should be set for years.

[jrpiasko]

jamar i would be skeptical with the 3 blades... i have also researched these broadheads... and looking at the forums on this topic some people swear by them and some hate them... but the people that hate them hate the 3 blade ones bc a lot of times all three blades dont open up. the two blade sounds like the one to try first and if you have luck like the pictures show with the two blade... why go to a 3 blade??

[SpliceCreek]

I shot two does with Rage 3-blades last fall to try them out.

The first was a small doe at just over 50-yards in a food plot, slightly quartering away. Went in just a little high through the liver and exited behind the far shoulder. The entry and exit wounds were a bit larger than the Muzzy 3 and 4-blades I've always used, but nothing like the pic's shown here and on their promo videos. She went less than 20-yards.

The second one was a large doe right under my stand. It was probably just a single-lung shot - hit just behind the shoulder, about 2-inches from her spine and exited somewhere underneath, sticking into the ground several inches. Good lung blood on both the arrow and in the blood trail, and lots of blood on the trail for the first several hundred yards, but I never recovered her (tracked her for approx 3/4 a mile before blood trail dried up). That's only the third deer I couldn't recover in over 20-years of bowhunting, still makes me sick.

Personally, I'm going back to my Muzzy's...

[woodsman324]

I want to try the rage 2 blades. How are they as far as putting new blades on after use? I know it's about a thirty dollar bill for 3 of them but if I could use them more than once it would be nice.

[Buckeye Dan]

Wow it looks like you thrust a broadsword through those deer. Wonder how these would perform on a crossbow. Seems like the mechanicals would fly open on release. There are a few mechanicals out there that are supposed to work well with crossbows but I have been less than impressed till I saw these photos. Anyone know if these will work on a crossbow?