I have shot the Rage 2-blade 100g. for 2 years. They shoot well, have huge entry & exit holes. My only problem with them is at times they come opened in my quiver. I don't use a quiver on my bow, I always carry a cat quiver. It seems like at times just a slight bump or jolt some will open. They do it with brand new heads even. I always replace the keeper O-Rings with new Rage rings when needed,don't help. Was wondering if anyone has had same problem. I might try alittle thicker o-ring. I have taken a piece of sewing thread & tied in middle of blades where there is alittle notch. Seem to open fine. Except for problems opening up, they are the best mechanical heads I have used.

When I first started shooting them I had the same problem. I bought a bohning detachable quiver and it solved that problem. You might want to check them out they're pretty cheap if I remember right.

I have a bohning quiver as well and havent had any problems with my rages opening up



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Carry mine in a bow quiver. Anytime I've had trouble keeping the blades closed it was because the O-ring was worn. As long as I keep the ring up to par I don't seem to have any problem. If I do, using the thin thread to tie them down sounds like a good idea.

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I've found smearing a thin coat of Vaseline on the rings help them keep from hardening and cracking in the cold a little longer. It also helps keep them a little more pliable which helps keep the blades closed.

I had too many problems with them and went back to thunderheads.

Small Rubber bands placed where the blades X, technical term!, helps as well.

I have shot 3 deer this year with them and i will never shot anything else they are the bomb. 2 deer dropped instantly and died, the buck i shot double lung, pass through at 30 yards and he trotted 40 yards and died. HUge blood trails. I have not had any problems with them opening. Also my dad, uncle shoot them and love the results. I also convinced a couple other hunters to shoot them and now htey love them as well, great head. And all i say is Rage through the Cage.

It seems to me that the current "rage" of mechanical braodhead use is a cure for a non-existant problem. Getting a fixed blade to fly is half the fun of the sport and not hard to do. The benifit is that there is not a chnce of additional mechanincal failure when hunting.

Repeated tests have shown this style of hunting point penetrates heavy bone poorly, if at all and is more fragile because of the cut outs and pivot points.

The only issue I have with my Magnus Stingers (18.50 for 3 on E-bay) is finding a suitable critter to use them on!

I don't know about you but for me: if it can fall apart, bend, get stuck or just not work it'll happen...at the worst time.

I even had to abandon the rubber peep tubing. I would hate to think of my relying on rubber bands on the single most important part of my hunting rig, my shaving sharp arrow head.

Ok Konrad, we all know that your favorite broadheads are Magnus Stingers by the ten thousand diffiernt times you have said it in the last month, and I am very happy that they are working great for you, but they might not be right for everyone and that is what I am asking you to consider.

First of all, not all bows can be set up to shoot fixed blade broadheads. Yes I agree that mechanical broadheads tend to have poor penetration on bone commpared with fixed blade heads, but this is do to the extreamly wide cutting diameter that mechanicals have.

Mechanicals are not made to break throught bone, they are made to cause diastrous amounts of soft tissue damage, and in that catagory they do much better than fixed blades.
It I knew I was going to hit a deer in the gut I would choose a mechanical head every time due to the much larger cutting diameter.

Also, deersticker is not having any of the problems that you have listed, so I do not see how this advice helps answer his question at all.

I know I beat the drum about fixed blades in general (Stingers in specific). The fact remains there are similar reports of problems relating to mechaanicals regularly.

I was responding to:

A: My only problem with them is at times they come opened in my quiver.

B: It seems like at times just a slight bump or jolt some will open. They do it with brand new heads even. I always replace the keeper O-Rings with new Rage rings when needed,don't help.

C: Except for problems opening up, they are the best mechanical heads I have used.

In my opimion, all of the above issues are the result of using less than proven technology.
To think that when hunting you will be able to avoid bone strike is...overly optimistic or wishful thinking.

Sorry if I offended in any way.