What Broadhead are you guys using with your traditional equipment? I am coming form the Compound side mostly and I am not up to date on the best Traditional braodheads.

I will be using a bow in the 50-60 pound range and probably staying in the 125-175g range.

So... Looking good suggestions.

Thanks!

Kinda depends on your ability to sharpen a broadhead. I learned many moons ago how to sharpen head with a mill file and it makes the choices even greater. I've used Bear Razorheads for decades, but since they are no longer made (although I still have plenty) I started using Ace Standards. It's an old...old company and a great head that is pretty easy to sharpen. You can get them up to heavy weights as well, and you don't have to mortgage the house to buy some.

Love Razorcaps. Wish they still made them.

I like the VPA 150's. Both the 2 and 3 blades shoot to the same POI in my recurve.

I've shot the other similar designs like the -Snuffer and Magnus snuffer ss, Hellrazors- but found flaws with their manufacturing- couldn't get some edges razor sharp. The CNC machined VPA's are more consistent, good steel and spin perfect.

And I like the 150gr over 125s....why not have a BH with more steel on the working end of your arrow?

Grizzly single bevel, Zwickey Delta 2 blade, and Woodsman 3 blade. No real reason other than they fly great for me, I can get em sharp, and they're all readily available.

The Griz has been my go-to the last few years.

Ace standard 125

My main stay heads are weasel woodsman and zwickies, Eskimos. Great heads, proven over time and fly great. Eskimos have to be one of the easiest to sharpen.

X2 on VPA 3 blades. Easy to sharpen. Very accurate.

I Use Rothhar ( THunder valley ) Snuffers 150 g

Zwickey Eskimos.

VPA ARE AWESOME!!!!

eskimos, howard hill, hunters head and bear all good

Cutthroats or the all steel Muzzy Phantoms, 200 gr on the cutthroat, 205 on the Muzzy without the bleeder.

Either Zwickey or Ace for many years now.

Any head with decades of performance on game will work. If not they wouldn’t still be around. I wonder how Gene and Barry feel about being weasels!

MP

I use vpa 3 blade 175 and single bevel grizzlies. Haven't killed with the grizzlies yet but love the vpa's!!!

Mostly Razorheads and zwickies. Trying some snuffers for turkey this year.

VPA, been very satisfied with them. Their very good heads.

If you want to know how to sharpen them...go to youtube an check. Very simple, even I can do it. Lol

I use G5 Montec that are 3 blade and Magnus Stinger 2 blade

Ace, grizzly

I still have some Razorcaps and will use them until they are no more. After that I will use the Wensel Woodsman.

Ace 165 Express

Just ordered half doz Zwickey No Mercy’s. Going to try them this year.

I've shot Woodsman's for a long time, but you couldn't go wrong with any of the heads mentioned above.

Zwickey Eskimos and Magnus

I prefer the woodsman to, I like a 3 blade head leaves a nice wound channel and good blood trails. Any sharp head in the pump house will do the trick.

125gr Phantoms.

-Joe

Zwickey no mercy double bevel for the past few seasons. The deer I have shot with these heads have dropped within 60 yards.

This year I'm using some old Journeyman broadheads that have Canada on them. I've also used the old Bear Razorheads, Zwickey Eskimos, Zwickey Deltas, Magnus Classics, and Ace Standards.

Check out RED RIVER 125 grain been using for a couple years with good success fly better than any broadheads that I've tried and believe me it was hard to switch from Magnus

Eclipse 125 grain two blade on 100 grain steel insert. Easy to sharpen, kill anything you hit well real dead and lifetime warranty .

160 cutthroats with 125g adapter or 250 valkyrie

Love the old magnus 2 blades, Grizzly bruin and VPA.

Original Hunter's Heads and single bevel Hills.

Zwickey Eskimos.

Zwicky Eskimos are my favorite

Get you a set of zwickeys or woodsmans and see if you can sharpen em. If not you’ll need a replaceable blade head. You can go with the old standby 3 blade muzzy. You can use brass inserts if you need to beef up the tip

never touch my wife's Zwickey Eskimos or her shooting glove. She sharpens them with a file, then a Nada wheel, a light touch with a diamond hone and then a couple of strops with an old belt. They will peel hair easier than a razor.

Either Zwickey Delta 2 blade or a original Woodsman 3 blade, depending on the bow.

Ace 160 broadheads. They've been one of the best since before I was born and I'm 64.

Kustom Kings Trailmaker in 145 gr. 3 blades easy to keep sharp and are 1 piece all steel.

For 3 blade, I use the VPA in 175gr.

For 2 blade I use the Bishop Archery right single bevel in 175gr.

Rick

VPA..300 grain. 3 blade out of my 50# Recurve. VPA.250 grain..3 blade out of my 45# Recurve VPA 150 grain...3 blade and 2 blade out of my 42# recurve Fly Awesome, Easy to Sharpen, Great price for a Solid Machined Broached.

Any of theses Broadheads mentioned from theses fine Gentleman Will DO the Job.

Old school Magnus and old school Zephyr.

My wife and I have taken many animals with 4 blade zwickies.

Magnus Killer Bees...two blade...125 grain...solid blade (no vent holes).

LIFETIME WARRANTY from mfg!!!

Ace Standard & Express

Roger Rothhar's snuffers since 1985 may he RIP. He just passed this past week

I'm a fan of the Hunter's Head as well. In a 3 blade I like MA-3's.

I like Grizzly 190s

The 145gr snuffers but I'm running low. Will probably go 200 gr VPAs.

100% bear razorheads...Nothing else comes close IMHO !!!!

The old Bear razorheads.

Ace standard

grizzlystik massai

Zwickey Eskimos. Haven't tried anything else. I may try steelforce phathead 190 gr 2 blades this year but why change when cheap heads work great?

German Kinetics in different weights.

Grizzly 175 has been extremely durable and effective for me. I'm trying cutthroat 125s now...have not connected yet. Was attracted to their lifetime garuntee and 1 piece construction.

Got some Ace heads a while back just to try something else.I had been using Eskimo and Magnus glue on and Stingers.

160 Snuffers, 160 Magnus 2 blade, 165 Simmons Tree Shark, all glue-on all no longer available.

Mountain Man: Thats a good looking Black Diamond. When I use the same metal heads I also round the sharp points off.

"Simmons going away from glue ons was a bad idea IMO."

They said the demand was too low to support, for me it won't matter because the Centaur Big Game Head and Battle Axe are a much better quality head with better construction and materials. I don't think that I'll outlive my Snuffer stash but if I do then I'll go to VPA 160 3 blade. I don't retire undamaged broadheads when they make a kill and it takes a lot of re-sharpening to wear one out so I'm probably good for a little while.

Cutthroat 125's. Solid one piece and so easy to sharpen. Excellent and short blood trails.

Zwickey Eskimo two blades. Best broadhead for the money IMO and easy to sharpen. I usually keep about a dozen razor sharp for me and my two sons that Bowhunt. If it was just me, I would buy Eclypses for their better quality.

"Almost" any cut on contact broadhead will more than adequately do the job. "IF" you can get it sharp & shooting properly.

I prefer one piece machined heads from one solid piece of "high grade tool steel".

Yes, those type heads are much more expensive to purchase, BUT since I seldom lose an arrow, they actually wind up being less expensive in the long run, because they out last the softer/more fragile broadheads by a very long time, and have an almost "zero" failure rate compared to those other softer/more fragile heads.

Using that type head, I usually wind up using the same head over & over again for multiple kills over a long period of time, and the others just ride in the quiver for that "just in case" moment if it happens.

Rick

Zwickey Delta. Some two blades and some four.

Rage

I'm still killing animals with Ace heads on forgewoods that i made back in the mid fifties. They have killed literally 100's of animals each for all those years. No reason for change, there is only one stage of death.

Babysaph, about spit on my iPad. Lol

Uhhhhh............zwicky all of them! Delta my go to though.

Concrete nails. Love that.

Vpa 3 blade 175gr super easy to sharpen and accurate

Jon,,,black diamond,eskimos,no mercys any Zwicky That ole Zwicky has been shot an used then sharpened so much the rear points are just worn off That broadhead is my favorite grouce point,,its been stuck in so many trees i call it the Druid ; )

One of these I suspect.

Cutthroat single bevel from RMS, or for 3 blade Trail Makers from Kustom King... both tough, both well made, both fly true

Zwickey Deltas 2 blade,they keep working so no need to try anything else,lots of good heads out there Terry

Bear Razorheads since 1963.....the first year we had a huntable deer population!

Bear Razorheads for turkeys, Zwickeys for everything else. Richard

Ace Standards :-)

VPA 150 3 blade for me... looking to try some of the heavier 2 blade VPA's this year.

1 7/8" silver flames

I shoot a few depending on what I'mhunting -- Zwickey Delta, STOS and Abowyer two blades, Woodsman 3-blades and Zwickey Delta 4-blades.

So many great options out there. This year I used 225gr stealforce tradtional heads. Next year might go to their 175s. I personally know the owner. Been shooting with him for a long time and he makes a great product for a really good price.

I like kodiak and Z deltas. Tree sharks fly great for me but I have yet to connect with one.

If i would shoot a 3 blade it would be the vpa, very easy to sharpen.

160gr Ace Standard. Really like that head.

Ace 145 gr glue on for woodies and Magnus Stinger 150 gr for screw in carbons.

I use the 300 gr Steelforce Traditional, it is a 2 blade single bevel. I haven't shot anything with them, however my buddy used them the last 2 years and harvested a nice buck both years. His arrows went completely thru the deer and he said that it happened so fast that he thought he had missed. Neither deer went very far before they collapsed. I am hoping for the same result next archery season.

I used Grizzly broadheads this year and was really impressed with them. The lower in pounds my bows become, the longer and leaner my broadheads get. I really like Zwickey No Mercys also.

Bear razor head works for me.

Zwickey's also going to try MA-3 this year for smaller game, possibly deer too.

I've used 3 bladed Savora BH's since 1977. In the early 80's I bought a bunch of the blades & ferrels at a going out of business sale. Still have some left over.A deadly BH if there ever was one!!!! Duke made a great head!!!!

Zwickeys

Tuffheads, Cuthroats, and German Kinetics.

Simmons and zwickeys

Grizzly Instincts!

Grizzlys @ 125 and I do have some Magnus heads on one set of arrows.

For my hunts this year, I just order some Northern Broadheads.

125 grain Nugent Blades (Magnus) on 125 gr adapters just because I have so many of them.

I do have some Simmons Tree Sharks that are threatening to be used as well :).

Tuffheads and Snuffers depending on what I am hunting. Roger made a great head. RIP Roger

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