How to TEST a broadhead...Go to TEXAS!

What I'm gonna do is I'm gonna work this cut. The wind's going this way and a little dip and a little drainage. I'm gonna get to the edge get the camera on a tripod and see if we can pull something to us and bring you along. Let's go. This is not a hunt film. This is a broadhead testing video and I'm not testing broadheads in ballistic gel, a scap off of a moo cow or elk or plywood. I'm testing these on animals and I'm shooting them in an area where I can look at the results and show you what I observe. My main focus on this video is to test three specific broadheads from Evolution Outdoors. We have the Hyde, Jekyll and Hyde and the Whitetail Fury. Let's talk about Texas. I've hunted Texas multiple times over the last decade and I've done all sorts of hunting. I've hunted over feeders. I've done spot and stalk and I've hunted hogs at night with thermals. I've also hunted low fence, free range, axis, over feeders, spot and stalk, odd dad hunting and I've hunted whitetail low fence and high fence. I've done it all and I'll be honest man it took me a long time to truly appreciate and understand the culture of hunting in Texas and now that I do I absolutely love it. It's just different than where I'm from up in the Pacific Northwest where it's just vast swaths of public land and the more you hustle the better experience you'll get. Down here it's a lot of private property and some properties are small, some are big, some are fenced high and some are fenced low. This particular property that we're heading to for this video is one I've been to before. It is 10,000 acres and it's not an outfit. There's no outfitting. This is a family owned cattle operation so we're talking moo cows but we're also talking thick brush country home to some big whitetail and these are native whitetails to the property. There's never been any breeding weird deer introduced and of course you have hogs and javelina and bobcats and a lot of rattlesnakes. We're down at this ranch because we want to test broadheads. This is an MLDP ranch so MLDP is a program that the Texas Parks and Wildlife have developed to work with these big ranches so that they're issued tags, there's a biologist involved, there's flyovers and we're trying to better understand the carrying capacity for the ranch considering a buck to doe ratio fawn recruitment. Essentially you need to harvest x amount of deer a year based on carrying capacity and for me I'm happy to shoot does I'm happy to shoot management bucks. Pretty unique trip I was here last year I'm here this year and I'm gonna bring you guys along let's go. This ranch has also not been bow hunted. All of the rifle setups are tower blinds 100 to 200 yards away from pinch points and feeders and there's several corn feeders and protein feeders on the ranch and that's pretty much the way the Texans roll when it comes to shooting deer because you're not spotting and stalking through the Texas brush not at all. So for bow hunting we've had to kind of set up ground blinds 30 yards off some of these pinch points and feeders and I'll be honest a lot of the deer do not like it because they've never seen a ground blind that close to the feeder before they're not comfortable and so all your shots on deer they're going to be very nervous especially the does they're you're gonna have to aim low and you also when you see a buck you need to make a quick decision determining its age if it's a potential trophy if it's a trophy if it's a management call and you need to be able to stand behind your decision once the smoke clears. Let's get into this hunt this is a fun hunt this is just reps in the red zone testing broadheads. Welcome to Texas we just landed went to the grocery store we're at the ranch just me and my buddy Cody it's 10,000 acre ranch we're gonna go check cams and see what's up. Cody hasn't been out here he's been busy so we just activated a couple of stealth cams as well and we're just gonna go check inventory I think you like to pull cards and then check them here? I think so put them on the computer look at them big screen see what we got and make a plan. He kind of like lays out flat and like curves in and I think he's got some kickers on this 1g2 on his left. About that buck that came in and spooked really quick I think he smelled me just a hammer I was definitely going to shoot him. Looks good. Now both sides is definitely I mean I definitely punched their liver but I think we got that other lung. Knocked up buck there he is. Buck didn't go smart by 60 yards tops a good shot great hole it's great everywhere white tail fury impressive. All right this is the whole point of the video is to test broadheads and give you the real world results and not make you too mad. I'm behind the camera Cody's in front here we go. All right guys we got Dan's deer from this morning management buck so management wise he's a nine point right at three and a half four years old just at this age we'd like to see a little bit better frame you know typical 10 point frame maybe bigger a little bit better tying length something better than this kind of crab claw here. So hard courting away you can see I mean that's got to be I mean I can get my fist in there almost and huge exit hole I mean you can see at that angle it's here's your shoulder blade here I mean it's right behind that shoulder blade and that's another that's got to be two and a half inch hole just massive. Broke a rib I can feel a broke rib right there so that's mechanical all the way through broke rib four inch entry two and a half inch exit that's pretty insane. So day one just had lunch we had a little front push in brought a little bit of rain changed the wind from southeast to north and while it was raining Cody and I slipped in and put out three different ground blinds so we have options based on wind tonight I'm hunting the north pasture based on this north wind there's a couple of management bucks in there that need to be hammered there's one really nice buck I got a green light to shoot if he shows up and obviously mature does so uh we're going to slip in there we're really close on this blind it's like 20 yards away from a main trail and feeder so we'll have to be sneaky bring you guys along day one so far so good I love Texas God bless Texas He went 66 yards from the shot that's incredible all right this Whitetail Fury has passed through both man I felt like I made a perfect shot on this buck for what he gave me all glory to God I love Texas man this is awesome I just text my buddy Cody he's in the stand let him know big buck down all right guys had a good morning a couple deer hit the ground uh first one up right here Dan got this deer this morning good management 10 Fury Whitetail Fury broadhead yet again I mean you can see that's a good three inch entry hole I mean just absolutely insane and exit here good pass through I've seen the video already I mean it arrow went flying out deer went I think Dan said 60 yards this right here is kind of what kills him you've got these short g2s both sides uh short brow times and this is a five-year-old deer I mean five-year-old deer you want to start being in that 150 to 160 class like if you want to be a trophy they need to be something and this deer right here is probably not going to make a 140 if we put a tape on it then this morning I got this just a good doe day six broadhead and I actually good hole she was quartering away it actually went in she had her head down the broadhead actually stuck in her neck and hydro shocked her and she just fell over so easy tracking John didn't have to worry about losing anything then we've got this old guy our main man Mr. Brody over here our resident nine-year-old professional management buck killer shot this deer last night 300 black out not a bow but we'll get him there one day old old deer we call them turkey foot you can see this funky side right here just big three-way got some good little class coming down here but yet again this is just a big management buck I mean this deer's six seven years old huge body on him massive and if you look I mean he's got this top knot or what you call a roman nose he basically his nose just looks like a short triangle now your younger deer you'll actually see a definitive nose profile you'll come down and it'll be that long slender nose these old guys it just all forms into one just makes a short blunt triangle then you've got this big swollen neck this deer was shot last night he's been in a cooler so he's kind of shrunk up a little bit last night you could really tell the age on this deer but heavy neck he had loose skin on him big brisket and then you get down here you look at your knees look at how swollen these knees are the calluses just over time feeding and everything else just a big beautiful management deer great job on brody nine-year-old boy go out and shoot a deer like this he's having fun with us and learning how to manage herd how to harvest animals clean them and take care of them which is what we want to see we love taking kids hunting just a management buck you can see awesome that's our exit the feeder is probably 40 yards from right here 40 yards and i shot him for 25 that's with the hide not the white-tailed fury i wanted to test it out damn good rod head another good morning at drance we got a couple deer hanging we got a seven point here shot by dan this morning uh using the evolution that you think he used to hide on this one you can see entry hole perfect placement right here and that's right behind a crease in the shoulder upon investigation we gutted him heart shot so i think he said he went 40 yards management buck you can see we're just a frame seven uh we hadn't looked at age on this deer like tooth wear yet but looking at him i'm gonna say he's three ish probably and four possibly but this should be a deer at three or four you should have your your frame of what this deer is going to turn into and sadly he had his frame and it wasn't up to par but entry hole exits phenomenal a lot of damage right in the shoulder but i mean you can see that's probably a little over two inches maybe two and a half inch hole um i don't know what the blood trail is like but dan said he didn't go with 40 yards so great kill successful recovery can't ask for better than this morning i got this one and this is a dinosaur this is an old old south texas deer you can see on this one i mean look at the the roman nose hump just short blunted face i have looked at the tooth wear on him and he does not have much left for teeth snow swollen knee joints but then especially you start looking at how worn down he is he has like an old man he has no butt left look at this hump in his back you can start seeing his spine he's just he's just an old guy on the downhill side and he's lived a good life and ugly trashy buck but pretty cool we get excited when we see big freaks like this i shot this one 27 yards this one was with the white tail fury this is entry hole right behind his shoulder also caught the heart on this deer he went right at 44 45 yards huge exit hole so good blood trail actually blood on both sides of the trail was pretty easy to find which i like so good morning a couple deer knocked out that needed to both good recoveries and successful day all right guys welcome to the after after action report thanks for watching that video on testing broadheads that's all it was it's not a hunt film this is the jekyll it was used on a doe cody used it the entrance hole and exit hole were not that big this was an easy fix broadhead to tune i think it's a good option for deer i think it'll be a tough broadhead it does not leave big holes but you will get blood on both sides of the blood trail so that's we used it on one deer it's good it's not going to be in my quiver for deer or elk moving on is the hide i used this on my third buck that was the heart shot buck and he went 40 yards i thought the entrance hole was really good and the exit hole was really good overall flight super easy to tune and i can shoot these very accurate out to triple digits this will probably be a consideration for the back of my quiver for elk if i need to make a follow-up shot that this would be more accurate i'm not sure if i'll ever use mechanicals again on elk but if i were to look at some of the options out there this has got to be a great one and i was just really impressed with the hide i shot one deer with it the whitetail fury i was able to shoot a doe and two bucks with and i was blown away at its ability to zip through these animals i took some tough courting away and courting two shots great pass throughs arrows went flying through these critters and the entrance and exit holes were nothing shy of incredible i give this high high remarks i will be using this on whitetail in the future negatives to these broadheads i'm going to mainly talk about the whitetail fury these are really long heads and it says on the instructions to not pull these out and if you do shoot these actual broadheads into targets you're going to have to pop a pen out and replace it you're supplied with a whole bag full of allens and replacement but it's a little bit tricky i did do it and so that's one thing to consider but all in all these stayed closed i never had early deployment or them pulling out of the quiver and partially out i could see that being a potential with the whitetail fury because the blades are so big but i never had that and i would say that if you are going to shoot this actual whitetail fury or the hide into your target you're going to need to loosen a bolt and replace a little part like almost a little set screw it's like a pin that you put in and have to mar i did do it just to say i've done it it wasn't super hard and evolution has a couple videos on their youtube channel to show you how to do that in final conclusion the whitetail fury is the bomb might be my all-time so far favorite broadhead i've ever used on deer and the the hide is definitely something i'm going to strongly consider putting in the back of my quiver i'm still kind of a fixed broadhead stubborn guy when it comes to elk i hope you enjoyed our in-depth broadhead test we didn't have to test on ballistic gel or cardboard or wood or center block or leftover bones from animals we just did the real thing i think this is very effective and we picked a place where we could do it again this is something where high fence may not be for you i like the idea of a 10,000 acre ranch with native deer and i like the fact that we're making good clean ethical shots all the meat is kept for consumption or donated and these deer need to be killed because mldp program has a certain amount of deer that need to be harvested each and every year why not us and yeah thank you to cody and his family for hosting us and be honest with you we're going to head back to this ranch and test more broadheads in the coming weeks and i'm bringing mfjj so comment below what broadheads you want to test i know we're going to bring a bunch down there but i would like to read these comments to see which ones you want tested maybe we can put them in the front of line separations in the preparation we'll catch on the next one