Why I’m leaving slicktrick

[Chew]

I think I've shot 13-14 critters with slicktrick now. Good blood trails if I do my part.

[88 Bound]

My buddy made an almost identical shot with a slick truck this week and his deer fell within sight, stone dead. Deer are tough animals. Aim small, miss small.

[Speedgoat]

I lost a deer once in 2011. I quit shooting Bowtech bows. I quit shooting Rage. I quit shooting with peep sights. I quit shooting Beman arrows. I stopped using 2" speed vanes. There is no way it was my fault.

[gatorgrizz27]

Not really seeing how a live deer is a blood trail problem. Finding it dead a couple days later when the buzzards get on it, sure.

My only experience with slick tricks is watching my friend kill a bull elk with one this year. It went in and sounded like a wooden baseball bat when it hit the offside shoulder. He ran about 200 yards on a 45 degree downhill, we were able to follow the blood trail at a fast walking pace.

There was no exit, the arrow broke up into about 2” pieces and that shoulder was blood shot like a rifle hit it. Broadhead had no damage whatsoever and was still sharp.

[skelsey]

Rage extreme or shwackers equals huge blood trails and dead animals even on marginal shots! That’s why I switched from fixed blades.

[Skinny]

Why I’m leaving slicktrick

Slick trick should leave the shooter.

There’s not a broadhead made that will compensate for poor shooting.

Right here! I killed the biggest deer of my life with a Slick Trick...along with countless hogs.

Back to the drawing board you go! [emoji41]

That being said...I doubt that’s the same deer!


Skinny

[skeeter]

I’m fine with someone disagreeing with me. I am just stating what I have found with slick tricks. Any broadhead can have a good blood trail once or twice. I shot 15-20 animals with them and the majority of the blood trails sucked. So for everyone quoting me saying how awesome they are, if you have only shot one or two things get a bigger sample size then come back to me [emoji1303]


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I’ve killed over 100 animals with slick tricks. They are awesome!

[skeeter]

You can kill em with a spoon if you put it in the right spot!

[jaker_cc]

I’d say hunt with what you feel like hunting with. I don’t like them compared to Iron Wills or German Kinetics, but they are also a much more quality and expensive broadhead. I mean quality due to the materials used in building them. My favorite new mechanical is a Rage Trypan. Some people don’t like them, but I do so that’s what I shoot. A broadhead isn’t designed to bail out a bad shot. It’s meant to preform when the shooter does his job. If you get bailed out by a broadhead it’s all a matter of luck or chance. None of them go out of their way to hinder or help

[tigerscowboy]

Reason I ask is I saw this doe last year on my property
Very high hit on entrance and exit is close to where yours is

Entrance is first pic and exit is second

Did this but another inch back a few years ago on a buck. Stood and bleed. Then walked away only to be seen again on neighbors game camera.

[Low Fence]

Shot this boar this evening with one of the dull slick tricks. He didn’t make it far (thankfully 25 minuets later a flood came)

Would have been a walking blood trail... if I could have stood up to walk

[stickbow]

broadheads and lack courtesy

guys i am disappointed reading this thread. this use to be courteous place. this guy didn't ask to get roasted and if you hunt long enough and kill enough you are going to have marginal or bad shots. his shot was not that bad. the higher you are the further back you can be and sometimes it just doesn't work out. i have killed elk with an expandable walled off in their chest back in the old days and the animal was surprisingly fine. many times the animal will be ok if not hit in the guts. opinions are like a holes everyone has one. use what you are confident with. be cool....life is short

[BTLowry]

guys i am disappointed reading this thread. this use to be courteous place. this guy didn't ask to get roasted and if you hunt long enough and kill enough you are going to have marginal or bad shots. his shot was not that bad. the higher you are the further back you can be and sometimes it just doesn't work out. i have killed elk with an expandable walled off in their chest back in the old days and the animal was surprisingly fine. many times the animal will be ok if not hit in the guts. opinions are like a holes everyone has one. use what you are confident with. be cool....life is short

I agree with the first part

Now about the bold part,
How high do I have to be to shoot one right in front of the hindquarters?
Now if you want to talk about angles, the more one is quartered away, the more back you need to be.

The OP's shot looked like what Buff called " middle middle", mid way between front and back and midway between bottom and top of body

[Lawhorn]

Switch to a Rage and see what happens. I would much rather have a 2” wound channel than a 1” wound channel. You just never know what it’s going to cut with that extra inch. I shoot and love Rage Trypans. I got a full pass through on a boat hog at 53 yards. I’m shooting a 29/70 Elite Ritual with a 555 grain FMJ. Rages aren’t ideal for all hunting situations but for whitetails they do the job just fine.


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[skelsey]

I see no reason to take a chance using small fixed blade broad heads when there are mechanicals out there that are absolutely devestating. Use what you have confidence in!