Coach

Funny you should ask. I'm a broadhead FANATIC. I have all kinds of heads that I practice with, but believe it or not, the Muzzy 100Grain 3 blade (under $ 18 for 3 at WalMart) shoot the most consistently for me. That's what I used on this hunt and I was blown away at how fast he fell. I don't know if you've seen the 14.5 second Muzzy kill video on the Bowsite.com, but this was pretty much exactly the same deal. He didn't trot for more than a few seconds before he fell dead in his tracks. I LOVE Slick Tricks and Magnus Stingers, but my practice groups didn't lie. Stacked up against the much pricier "premium" broadheads in my collection, the standard old Muzzy 100 grain BH's flew the most consistent, and their performance was completely unreal. Here's the entry hole... And the exit... The exit looks low, but his body is twisted in that picture - look at his hip. It actually exited at the same height and slightly back from the entry hole. The arrow went another 40 yards and stuck in a tree like it had shot through paper. As much as I love my G5 Montec Carbon Steel heads at $40 per pack or Slick Tricks or G5 Strikers or Magnus Stingers - which ALL group together and ALL, when razor sharp, will do their job, when it came time for a critical shot, I was all about the "old standby" Muzzy 100 grain 3 blade heads just based on how consistently they grouped out of my setup. The pictures - plus how this buck fell in his tracks and within sight - really tell the story. It's all about shot placement, and spending extra $$ on broadheads isn't always best. Try out several heads at short and long distance - a great broadhead with poor placement is worse than a decent broadhead with perfect placement. And not all heads will shoot the same out of all setups.

What a great video that was!!! Thanks for sharing. You guys are in for a great hunt! I couldn't believe the forage in there - looked like a food plot! I can't wait to see the hard-horned version of that big one that ran in behind those two smaller feeding bucks!

LOL - this has to be the funniest thread I've seen on here in a looooong time!

Wow for sure!!! That thing is huge! And 3 spot-and-stalk coues...somebody's been doing their homework! Great job!

Great Job! Beautiful buck... way to put in the work and get it done - congrats!!!

Wow - that is a great buck! Congratulations!!!

Dang!!! Nice pictures, Scott.

Actually, no. He was in a whole different area than the spot I was looking at opening day.

For starters, I want to thank everyone for your support on this thread! And you guys were right - I ended up switching my locations and strategy a little bit and it paid off! I got my first ever archery deer, and I couldn't be happier with him! Thanks again, Jason

Great looking buck! I love that double drop-tine buck too!

AZOnecam is pretty vanilla - started posting waaaaaay back when I bought my first Mathews SoloCam bow, and duh, I'm from AZ. BTW, Now I shoot Bowtech

Nice buck! I was gonna say "I know but I ain't tellin", then you let the cat out of the bag! Thanks for posting the pix, Cory.

Awesome Job!!! What a great first buck!

Wow - those are huge! You sure you're not a few feet back? Seriously, congrats on some great bruins.

Nicely done! Congrats on a beautiful buck!

Congrats Clay!!! A very nice buck for sure!

I've found that by handling arrows from the NOT razor-sharp end helps avoid injury - not judging - just passing along some helpful advice for the future...

Wow - what a tool. Just think, this guys vote counts the same as sane peoples' votes. What a shame. I only made it about 30 seconds in - my tolerance for stupidity is pretty low.

Wow - great pics! That's a pack of deer-killers for sure!

Duh! That's a total Kornbagger question!

I just saw that Cabelas has their Knight Long Range Hunter ML in the bargain cave marked down from $699 to $399. It's not the thumbhole stock, but these are very accurate muzzle loaders. Keep in mind, Knight did go under, so that's probably why they're marked down - regardless, they are very good muzzies.

I'm gonna have to have a closer look, mabe a DNA test or something... Tell you what, just shoot me the coords and I'll arrow him and get back to you with my findings.

Has anyone done a side-by-side comparison of the Vortex and Minox? I've looked through the Vortex but not Minox. I'd be interested to see how they stack up against eachother.

LOL Headache! Good ones! I tend to agree with Clay...'nuff said. Oh, and the map - what a joke!!!

I'm a firm believer in the youth hunts. Absolutely love them, and if that means I have to wait longer for "my own" tag, so be it. To answer one of your points about left-over tags. To be honest, most of the leftover tags are in some of the units I would be LEAST likely to hunt with my kids. I'd love to hunt 30A or 30B some time with a group of adults, but there is just too much trafficking going on there to do the father/sons hunt for me personally. I'm glad everyone is keeping it civil - this is definately a "hot-button" issue for lots of us, but admit it - before we had kids many of us may have made the same arguments.