I am using a 70 pound, double cam compound bow and shooting, Easton 2213 Superlite Alu shafts, for the last year now.
I changed over to Easton 340 Carbon composite arrows and still using the 90 grain Muzzy broadheads with them.

Where I normaly shot low with the aluminium/muzzy combination, I now shoot, high with the carbons.
With the field point, I am on the adress every time, but when I screw in that broadhead, I am high and very high!!

WHY,WHY,WHY???

good points .

I did leave the African part of the question out.

I'm unqualified as experienced but I read alot. The general idea among African hunters is heavy arrows penetrate better. I agree.

Also various type heads are better than regular fare. if you say so...

my take, depends on the game.

Elk size animals and smaller are no harder to shoot thru. It's where you hit em that counts.

Dangerous game? confidence is everything.

Thanks for all the advise, I think I'll just start all over again, cause I had the bow restrung and cabled today.

Question! The " cut on contact head " Is that, what I know as a mechanical head ? If it is, are they effective on game, like, kudu and oryx? OR, is it the fixed blade head, without the point? {rarely available in Namibia or S.A.}

- My best experience- I had six kudu bulls around me, so close, that I could not even turn my head, not to mention picking up my bow.[breathtaking]

Cut on contact blades are not mechanical blades. They are simply fixed blade broadheads whose cutting surfaces start at the point of the broadhead. They are different than the Muzzy style blades that have the "chisel" point that must penetrate slightly before you reach the cutting surface. Make sense, or am I just confusing you more?

Joe

In some African countries, mechanical heads are illegal. Use only fixed blade heads. But unless you are hunting large or dangerous game, a heavy arrow is not necessarily better. Placement is the key on the DC.