Charl it sounds as though you have a lot of experience with the 4 blade Slick Trick, others feel free to put in your experience as well.
I used to use 2 blade, cut on contact blades and had great end results but very little in the way of blood trails. I switched to 2 blade with bleeder blades and honestly did not see much difference. This past year I have gone to 3 blade Thunder heads and can not say blood trails are much different. All of these shots I am basing on double lung shots on whitetail deer.
Would a 4 blade broadhead produced more blood or is it all the same when you take out the lungs?

The reason I ask is that the ranches I hunt are all in South Tx. where our brush is so thick you can not see through it. You can walk within feet of an animal an miss it completely so blood is a GOOD thing when tracking.

Perry

The guys I hunt with in MT all love the Slick Trick......all of 'em lifelong archers. I'll make the switch once I use up my G5s.

I've tracked hundreds of animals and I haved used two, three and four blade heads of all kinds. I have noticed no difference in blood trails that is tied to the number of blades. The smallest head I ever used was the two blade regular Grizzly and one animal I shot with that, which is known for not leaving ANY bloodtrail, looked like it bled from a five gallon bucket. I shot one bear with a four blade head and got a blood trail the size of pins heads, the fat just plugged the hole. I figured out that the way to pick a broadhead has NOTHING to do with the number of blades, but its the same as picking a BULLET. I use the BIGGEST head that I can be reasonably sure will go all the way through the biggest animal I am likely to get a shot at. I want to hit both lungs and make an exit hole for two bloods trails. Any shot that hits the lungs, especially high, but without hitting any large blood vessels, will got give much of a blood trail and what there is will be a fine mist, which is hard to see. Don't believe anything you read on broadheads, I've seen so much bs over the years, sometimes I wonder if the person using the heads ever even shot anything with them. Blood trails come from what the head cut, period. I have hundreds of heads here, but I almost always us BIG cut on contact two blades. Why? They are cheap, they are easy to sharpen, they go all the way through and they make BIG holes. I've killed more animals with the Zwickey Delta than anything else, but for heavy arrows I use the 160 Magnus, which I was at least partially responsible for the design. One really big animals I use the Grizzly 190 El Grande.

what loboga said X100....

big, cut on contact, two blades, razor sharp...

I use 160gr STOS heads, modified tip. Two holes are always better than one for blood trails....

troy

All the advice is very good! I can also not comment on the three v four v two blades realy as far as the amount of blood spilage goes. If you cut the pipes of the blood will pump out of the holes... The manufactures and pro-staff memembers might feed you another story....I like the Slicks because they FLY true out of my setup. Very true.

That for me nailed it. I have a broadhead that can fly where me fieldpoints hit up to 35 yards (my self imposed limit). The penetrate very good, and yes, they are razor sharp and very strong.

I have tried most other broadheads, mechanical and fixed, and these boys just do the "trick". to be honest, the most blood spilage I got, and this from a gut shot pig, was from a Rage two blader. I then lost two pigs after that, and never looked at other broadheads again.

The reason I like the X-tricks for the Bushpig specific, is that they weigh 175gr. A heavy head that packs a mean punch, and penetrate like nothing else. The design of the head means that I can actualy break a big bone head on, and still do damage. Not that I want to do it, but at night sometimes you need all the help you can get with a B&A. Remember that we shoot these pigs between 15-18 yards. Over that distance the X drops like rock~!

One of my pig hunting buddies shoots Magnus that he sharpens before every hunt. Penetrates like mad, and does the job perfect.Just took a while to get the bow tuned to the heads.....

I hope this helps. Tricks are of course through the bank a bit cheaper than most others, and very easy to sharpen again if not damaged to badly......

Happy hunting! And remember....aim slow!!!!

Infinito.....that's exactly what makes them so popular I understand, is that they fly so true. I suspect that the 2 schools of thought on this won't budge so to each his own. My own personal preference is accuracy but I defer to those more experienced on here.

Thank you all for the great info! The 3 blade TH have been working/penetrating well and I have a quiver full so until those are gone, with our abundance of hogs that should not take long, I will stay the course.

Another question about bow tuning. A bow is either in tune or out....correct? If a bow is out of tune you should get it tuned as opposed to finding a broad head that flies straight out of it, right? Heres why I ask. I had a new string and cables installed and noticed two arrows with broad heads hit the target a little canted. Then I shot a doe through the upper boiler room as she quartered away from me. the arrow took out the lungs but came out pointing up at about a 45* angle. The arrow can out above the shoulder so it probably followed the scapula and she probably dropped a little when hit to, BUT it got me thinking. 2 hogs later with clean pass throughs and arrows tracking true settled me a little. Should I check the bow on paper?

Perry

No harm can come out of punching some holes through paper....might just settle your mind.

Would slightly wobbly broad heads cause arrows to hit the target canted?

Perry

Any broadhead will fly true if its mounted straight and the bow is well tuned. Tuning is a matter of degrees from near perfect to horrible. Fletching tends to straighten out arrow flight, so on a poor flying arrow, penetration is usually worse at close range than further out after the fletching does its job. Paper tuning or shooting into someing like sand, will show an arrow hitting at an angle. Once an animal is hit there are no guarantees on which way the arrow is going to go.

Thanks again.

Perry

Dont know about three verses four blades but i can tell you one thing, if you use slick tricks you will not be sorry. They are field point accurate, tough as nails, and they just plain kill really well and are not as expensive as other heads, plus they sell replacement blades.