Bowtech SR6 - 62 pounds, 29" draw
300 spine, 27" c to c, 100 grain insert, 100 grain head (about 500 grains)
Quartered away, 38 yards, pass through but arrow didn't go all the way through, only ribs on far side

But seriously, I'm interested in the results. Season opens Saturday for me and I have 4 different broadheads in my quiver to try out this fall.

 

Doe #1
Bowtech BTX 28 @ 28"/ 73lbs.
410gr TAW, Hunter XT 250 at 315fps.
QAD Exodus.
Broadside 20yd through the ribs, full passthrough.

Doe #2
Bowtech BTX 28 @28"/73lbs.
490gr TAW, Hunter XT 250 at 290fps.
QAD Exodus.
Quartering away 55yd. Entered behind the shoulder, exited brisket. No major bones hit. Full passthrough.

 

Not to pour cold water on your efforts because I think it is good to have data, but I suspect you will get a skewed data pool as people are less likely to report failures than they are to report successes.

 

Although that would be good data as well. I want to see success data points.
One thing to clarify, if anyone does post with a through the shoulder shot I’d really like a picture of the shoulder bone with the hole in it.

 

Utah mule deer. Mature buck. 40 yard broadside. Double lung through the ribs. clean pass through.
Gold tip air strike 300 (448 TAW). Day six evo heads. bowtech solution, 72lbs, 30” draw. 293FPS.

 

Axis deer this past May.

• Elite Enkore 60# @ 28.5”
• Easton FMJ 340, 537 grains, 238 fps, 50 grain H.I.T. insert, 28 1/8” C to C, 4 fletch TAC Driver 2.7

vanes,4 1/2” Onestringer wrap, 125 grain Slick Trick Magnum

• HHA Tetra single pin sight
• T.R.U. Ball Short-n-sweetr wrist strap release
• 40 yard broadside, double lung pass through shot
• 50 yard recovery

 

My season isn't open yet but here's a free bump with some good pics showing entry and exit from a previous buck.
60# at 27.5" Draw with a 333 IBO bow
440 grain TAW Easton Axis 340
Around 12% FOC
125 grain Slick Trick Vipertricks
Aprox 15 yard shot from 20 feet up a tree.
Clipped both lungs rib and thru guts, minimal blood because of that.
Ran 100 yards.
Hope to be posting here soon with more recent pics😎

 

How are you planning on arranging, grouping the spreadsheet? By bow poundage, taw, shot placement? Seems like your gonna get a lot of info. Or is it too early to think about that?
good idea though

 

Bit early to think about at the moment. Will probably be what data is provided the most consistently.

 

These are older but I'm going to make it a point to get some better necropsy photos this year. Looking forward to this thread & thanks for your work you're going to be putting in. I can see it being very helpful. I hope people put the bads in as well. Those could be the most useful imo. I know I will. I have no shame & it's a by product of hunting. I know we often shy away from talking about the bad, but it's the only true way to learn.

1) bow specs - make/model, draw length, draw weight
Elite Answer, 28", 80lbs
2) arrow weight and length, insert, broadhead and broadhead weight
832 grains 26% foc. Sirius apollo 200spine , 28" carbon to carbon with ethics ss 220gr insert
& sleeve with 250 grain cuttthroat. 4- 2inch sheild cut trueflight feathers & feradyne nockturnals.
3) trophy photo
See below
4) description of shot (quarter to/away, hit heavy bone, pass thru, distance)
A slight quarter away, entered in the V on the right side (no bone) & exited through the scapula just above the ball joint on left, complete passthrough, buried in the dirt, 38 yards.
5) if bone contacted, photo/s of damage to bone
Working on that!
6) deer is a fawn, adolescent (1-3 yrs), mature
He was an old swamp deer. Barely any teeth left. Felt like sandpaper.

Suggested to add....
7) tracking distance
Less then a 3 yards. He tried to take one step, buckled & fell with a broken shoulder & died within a few seconds. Huge bubbles everywhere. Most of the 3 yards were him sliding on his chin.

 

Hey I hope you don't mind other animals beside whitetail...??? Being that @Mossy-Back, @Nockbuster98 & @rapids posted their awesome kills I figured I'd add some more to the mix. Not sure if you're only looking for whitetails or if any kind of kill works? I personally would love to see any kind of archery results, but don't want to over run your process. Let us know.

I'll carry on for now unless you state otherwise.....

1) bow specs - make/model, draw length, draw weight
Elite Answer, 28", 80lbs
2) arrow weight and length, insert, broadhead and broadhead weight
832 grains 26% foc. Sirius apollo 200spine , 28" carbon to carbon with ethics ss 220gr insert
& sleeve with 250 grain cuttthroat. 4- 2inch sheild cut trueflight feathers & feradyne nockturnals.
3) trophy photo
See below
4) description of shot (quarter to/away, hit heavy bone, pass thru, distance)
A quarter away, entered right behind the crease on the right side (no bone) & exited through the center of scapula on right. Arrow passed all the way through but he immediately buckled & rolled breaking the arrow hanging out. 32 yards
5) if bone contacted, photo/s of damage to bone
Working on that! You can see the exit bruising in the pic. Right through the scapula. If you zoom in you can also see the starburst effect of the bone created by the single bevel. It hooked heavily right through the scapula on exit. Made a huge backward J with a big starburst cut in a big sideways V to the right. The J was the single bevel & the V was a byproduct. Pretty cool to see! And that was the exit!
6) deer is a fawn, adolescent (1-3 yrs), mature
Not a deer (sorry! maybe, hope it's okay to add).
Past mature boar. His oysters (you can have, not my thing) were shriveled up. Definitely past his prime but built like a sherman tank. When I knocked on his shield it had a sound & felt harder than wood. It literally left marks on my knuckles & felt harder then a 4x4.

Suggested to add....
7) tracking distance
Less than 3 yards. He got pinned to the ground immediately & slide on his side. Kicked two or three times & he gone. Probably less than 5 seconds.

 

Other animals are fine. Unless it’sa bunch of squirrels again..
I’ll just isolate those data points from the main group of deer data points

 

Bump

 

We all suck at hunting this year. Sorry.

 

May 2022 spring turkey from west Michigan
2019 Elite Ritual 35; 61@29.25" DL
Easton Hexx 28.75" shaft w/50gr insert, Blazer vanes, NAP Spitfire mech BH=425gr TAW
Longbeard was ranged at 32 yards with a hen....was not coming any closer to my decoy or calling, so I shot him broadside from that distance (popup blind). Put him right down with a bit of flopping, but not a full pass through....likely due to the additonal 10 yards of the shot distance....plus he was a pretty big bird

 

1. Hoyt Carbon Defiant, 28.5" DL, 69 pounds
2. 470 gr arrow, 125 gr Slick Trick standard
4. 33 yards, broadside, heart shot, thru ribs on both sides
6. average doe, didn't get weight

 

1. Hoyt Carbon Defiant, 28.5" DL, 69 pounds
2. 470 gr arrow, 125 gr Slick Trick standard
4. 33 yards, broadside, heart shot, thru ribs on both sides
6. average doe, didn't get weight

Thank you for the info. One thing I do want to push going forward is pictures are required. Only reason is so that we don’t get anyone trying to manipulate the data by posting false reports.

 

Bowtech Destroyer 350, 76.5 Lbs
150 grain crossbow Swhacker
GT Pro Hunter 300, 4 2.25 X vanes, 25g nockturnal
470 grain arrow weight, 290 fps. Heart shot, no bone contact. Ran 50 yards, sprayed blood after 15.
100 lb 1.5 year old SC buck

 

Little feller didn’t have a chance.
Great shot.

 

1) bow specs - make/model, draw length, draw weight
Bowtech Solution, 30", 69#
2) arrow weight and length, insert, broadhead and broadhead weight
440 gr, 29", Standard insert with 20 gr. FACT weight, 100 gr. Grim Reaper Pro 1 3/8
3) trophy photo

4) description of shot (quarter to/away, hit heavy bone, pass thru, distance)
Both quartering away: 1) 35 yard double lung pass through; 2) 45 yard heart and lung pass through
5) if bone contacted, photo/s of damage to bone
6) deer is a fawn, adolescent (1-3 yrs), mature Mature does
Pic #1 is entrance on doe 1, Pic#2 is exit on doe 2 (Broke the leg on first shot after a limb deflection the arrow went through neck and down and broke the leg, the follow up shot was at 45 yards entered behind front shoulder and exited through heart and offside shoulder. 40 yard blood trail and completely bled out.

 

https://datakills.com/

Cody Greenwood from tradlab is collecting data through that site.

 

Learned a lot from all the people on here.
Killed my first deer at 30 yards. Broadside shot from a stand. Hit a little high. Took out both lungs and broke ribs on both sides. Bleed out internally there was almost no blood at the shot location.

bow specs. 2010 apa black mamba at 60lbs.
28” draw.
Arrow. Gold tip hunter xt 340. 75gr insert. 100 gr broadhead. Deepower 1.25”. 3 blade.

 

1. Hoyt Axius Ultra 30 in draw 72 lbs
2. 438 grain Black Eagle Carnivore 28.5 in c to c. 125 grain nap killzone. Standard insert.
3.
4. Quartering away, full pass through, ribs and front of shoulder.
5. Sorry
6. Mature doe.

 

1) bow specs - Bowtech SR6, 62 pounds, 29" draw, performance module
2) arrow - Victory VF TKO, 27" c to c, 23 gr insert, 125 grain TOTA 1" solid, 450 grains 14% FOC
3) trophy photo
4) description of shot - broadside at 9 yards from 20-ish feet up, rib on entry, cut rib and "elbow" on exit, arrow buried a foot into the ground
5) if bone contacted, photo/s of damage to bone
6) mature doe (96 pounds field dressed, so roughly 130 pound live weight)

double lung, she ran 35 yards from the shot and piled up in sight, hardly any blood on the ground until where she fell, lots of blood in the cavity

Entry:

Exit:

 

Bump

 

Using the same gear as the longbeard from my former post.......actually I was fall turkey hunting....when a small group of does wandered through instead of a bird. Shot one at 33-34 yards and have a freezer filler.

 

That's a lot of info............lol......I'll add some of it.

V3x (was at #65 for these two pics but I lowered it to maybe 58? Not really even sure but I'm playing around like normal.........lol)
425 grain arrow then......now I'm shooting a 400 grain arrow for the remainder of the season
Was shotting 275 but I haven't chrono'd the new setup yet
Standard GT Velocity XT with a 125 grain Wac' em for the pics (now I'm using a 100 grain Montec)
Both were super far shots....one was 11 yards and the other about 9.

Both pass-through's but no bone was encountered to speak of.

So far it's been a great year.....and I was having horrible vision issues last year that I have seemed to have resolved.....thank the Lord. l'm slowing down until I get to go out of state soon and waiting for the rut.

 

Bowtech Experience 70lbs 29" draw goldtip pros slick trick standards 100 grain 420 grains around 300 fps shot this 4-5 year old PA buck at 20 yards. Shot a bit high and back but he didn't go 20 literally.

 

Obsession HB33- 70# and 30" draw
Easton 6.5 carbon 300 spine with 150 grain Crimson Talon Cleaver- approximately 490 grain TAW
Mature doe quartered toward me at 10 yards. Between ribs on entry, dead centered the heart and exited through the thinner part of the sternum. Full pass through, arrow lightly sticking in dirt.
Dead in 30 yards

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