I love my Swhacker 125g Broadheads and Practice Broadheads.
However, now I use my 125g field points in my Big Shot target to replicate the broadhead impact at bear hunting distances. How?
My field points normally hit 2 to 3 inches higher than my Swhackers at 20 yards. Perhaps minor aerodynamics account for the impact shift up.
Accordingly, I have tuned the arrow/fieldpoint with 5 grain brass arrow washers added to the field point and now have identical impact at that distance.
I do this to relieve the constant use of my broadhead target and make pulling field points from my Big Shot target so much easier.
I don’t expect the same impact beyond 25 yards max. Bear hunting over bait at 20 to 25 yards works for me.
Three Rivers Archery sells the brass washers by arrow diameter. Give them a try…
I am interested in the science of Swhacker Broadheads for my Alberta Crossbow black bear hunt. I am hunting with my Ten Point Turbo S1 which shoots 350 fps with Swhacker 231 broadheads and whopping KE of 140 ft-lbs at 20 yards.
I recently shot the Swhacker 231 practice heads out to 50 yards like field points with supreme accuracy. Wow!
Note: A separate practice head used to come with the package of three hunting broadheads but practice heads are now sold separately.
Remember, when shooting broadheads of any kind, “it is accuracy that kills” provided the blades are sharp.
Accordingly, I searched for “science” coupled with Swhacker broadheads. This article is not intended as an advertisement but to see it compared to other mechanical tests. How’d it do? Read on…
Part I of the science video below was to shoot through 50 gal steel drums.
The vital point gained in that experiment is that the Swhacker 1 inch lead blades made a one inch cut in the drum but the rear 2 inch blades did not deploy till the broadhead was through the side of the drum (aka big game), leaving the large blades razor sharp to cut internal organs.
Deer and bear are certainly not steel drums, but it was interesting to see other mechanical broadheads, while the Swhacker’s lead 1 inch blades cut through leaving the large blades razor sharp for cutting organs.
Swhacker Test Part II
Below, this Part II is where the Swhacker gel test and angle tests are a tell all of mechanical broadhead penetration design and to save the razor sharp larger blades for slicing through organs instead of skin and bone on the surface.
There are several models of Swhackers but each follow the same concept of saving the rear deployed razor sharp blades for cutting internal organs and not the hide and bone on entry.
