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100 gr. Its about 90% of the industry,.... so go with the flow.

Its great ammo, I agree. I hit a big spike in the neck with a 200 gr 35 Rem Leverevolution last season at 50 yards in really heavy cover. The entrance wound was about the size of a marble. The exit wound the size of a golf ball.

this topic is blogged to death all over the internet. Some say glints of light are bad, others say if the deer is that close to you during rifle season you're probably asleep. Who knows for sure, one thing you can do is have the shiney stainless bead blasted by a gunsmith. This will take the smoothness or the steel away and leave it rough and dull. You'll never worry about shine again.

WNYBuckHunter, that is exactly correct. Our local E-Con's tested them out. The blades sort of lock down against each other due to the camming action of the rear deployment. This creates a babed effect. This can't happen with the two balde model becausethe back of the blades are always in the same line, they never intersect.

267 FPS with a 425 grain arrow at 70 pounds. That was the speed with a WB rest.

complications,...... hate em'. The whisker bisquet will make that all go away!!!!!!

So I am still getting slightly high tears on paper, a slight left tail on the arrows in the target but not on paper and the arrow is hitting the riser shelf all with the NAP Apache. Funny how I had none of these problems with the Whisker Bisquet and I only gained 5 FPS with the drop away. Any thoughts here because I'm about ready to switch back to the bisquet.

See this off their website. Their entire technology is based upon a slip cam suystem. SlipCam™ Upon impact, the SlipCam™ initiates and the blades slide back and deploy from the rear. By the time the blades impact, they are fully deployed. Once the "shoulders" of the blades catch, they slip down shaft. Each blade cams out, deploying from the rear while the cut-on-impact tip penetrates the hide. Before the blades reach the hide, they are fully deployed, even hyper extended… giving you a maximum cutting diameter. 3 Advantages! The revolutionary SlipCam™ Rear Blade Deployment System gives you... 1. Guaranteed fully deployed Blades High-speed footage of over-the-top heads show the blades do not fully open until after they enter. RAGE's rear-deploying blades are guaranteed to be fully deployed before they enter which means you'll get the benefit of the heads full cutting diameter! 2. No loss of kinetic energy Because RAGE's blades are fully deployed on impact they penetrate like a fixed-blade head. Over-the-top expandables lose kinetic energy due to deployment during entry and deflection. 3. Eliminate deflection An angled hit with an over-the-top expandable can result in the leading blade grabbing first and throwing the head off line… RAGE's rear deploying blades follow the cut-on-impact tip and will not grab or deflect and give you full cutting diameter on impact!

Anyone have any experince handloading the 35 Remmy? With nice heavy brass (Hornady), how many loadings can you get out of it?

Bubba- I felt exactly the same way as the time ticked away and no amblualces or buses with wounded started to roll east bound.

In 2 1/2 hours it will be Sept. 11th. A day that ten years ago defined our generation as much as Pearl Harbor had 60 years ago for our parents. I guess much like the Kennedy assassination, we probably all recall where we were and what we were doing when the planes hit the Trade Center, the Pentagon and the crash in Shanksville PA due to the bravery of the passengers fighting back against Al Queda. At 8:30 on Sept 11th, 2001 I was sitting on a red light detail when I heard about the first crash. I drove over to a local coffee shop and watched in horror on TV. It soon became clear it wasn't an aviation accident as the rest of the horror of that day unfolded. We received instruction from our Lt to be ready to escort buses and ambulances from the city that might be bringing casualties to hospitals out east. Unfortunately there were none. We were mandated that night but I got a little time too go home to be with my family. It wasn't clear how many days straight we might have to be working. In the following days we all lined up to give blood. We hoped and payed for the lost and missing. We prepared to go to wakes and funerals, and we did go to too many. It compelled me to become reinstated as a volunteer firemen and I have served with a my local hook and ladder company since. One of the most incredible memories that I had in the ensuing days after 9-11 was the fact that there was no violence towards Muslims in our country. Would another country be as tolerant as we have been? I hoped so, but I also doubted it. I spoke to my kids about it tonight. They were five and four when it happened, They have almost no recollection of it at all. They know other kids who's parents died but other than that, they have no reals sense of the attack and what it was like to be so close to something so horrible. What are your thoughts and memories? Good bless us all and keep us safe.

I don't shoot past 40 yds. Got 2 pins on the bow 0-20 and 30-40. Can put five arrows into a 6" circle at 40 yads and 2" circle at 20. I think that's good enough for government work.

You sure are!!!! What were you shooting?

three balde rage heads are illegal in NY. The cam locks the blades back on the three blade design and makes into a barbed head.

I would doubt two little pieces of tape would have much of a consequence on a 425 gr arrow. BUT,..... have the O rings gotten better so that the blades don' pop open from bumping or even when firing.

sounded weird to me too.

Anyone ever hear about putting a piece of scotch tape around a rage head to keep the blades from popping opened.

Saw a 12 on the move twice in South Hampton during bow season. Dark brown rack and tending does. Was a freight train coming through the laurel! Couldn't get a shot off either time.

Rocky makes a really nice set of Scent IQ parka and bib. Not too bulky (so you can bow hunt in it too). Its quiet and available in Mossy Oak. I think you will like it. They sell it at Dicks and I think Gander has it too. 100% waterproof with something called "windstopper." I bought a set last year myself. Love it. Keep the girl. She's supporting your habbit

Lost power in at 1:30 AM on Sunday, still don't have it back yet.

My experience on both prong horn and whiteys' is that antelope live in grass lands and tend to run in straight lines, more or less. Deer cut back and up through cover all of the time and head to run towards thick crap when they are hit. If you take your time and make your circles on a good hit you will most likely find the deer..... As far as bullets, weight and caliber choices go, there's all kinds of wounded there's only one kind of dead! Rather shread a little more choice cut into stew chunks and get a DRT hit anytime than walk in concentric circles for an hour or so. The 30 and 35 cals are great for that. The 270 is good too. Just seems that the more forward mass you put into the boiler room the more you can get away with as far as shot placement goes.

dropped my big boar with a 250 gr spire point from a 35 Whelen at 75 yards. Piggy went down like a meator hit him and he was 300 pounds on the hoof. The only missing from him was his heart when we gutted him, sometimes its better to be lucky than good. So in that regard, I think its possible to flatten a deer, the vodoo has to be perfect. My buddy put down a mutant huge spike two years ago well past 100 yds with a 180 gr from a 308 Win. The deer was not spooky at all, seems to me spooky deer always run some. The calm one fall down fast, maybe that's the affaect of a little adereline. I think you nailed it on the head, the 180 gr will be good for light brush. I think you hit lumber with anything and all bets are off, ....deflection city!!!!!!

thanks, I think the goal here is to define brush. Sticks and twigs ain't brush to me, brush that I have in mind is high marsh grass, catails and the like, not so much the understory of the forrest. I would try to pick an opening through that crap (lots of mountian laurel around us to deal with). I'll take an extra 30 grains to deliver the mail with a little higher SD anyday for that sort of crap.

Actually, weight is far less a factor than construction. The Hot-cor is a reasonibly thin jacket. Its designed to shed weight so there is every reason in the world for it to expand. I wonder what kind of bullets you were using when you were producing pencil hole exit wounds? As an example a 35 Remington is a 200 gr bullet moving at a lower velocity. Take the Hornady Leverevolutions, they are much better constructed than a Hot-cor, I have personally shot deer with this very combo and produced quarter sized exit wounds. I think if you are playing the speed kills game, I fully agree with the 150 gr loading. In fact that is what I load in my bolt action 700 (also a 30-06). A 150 gr. Nosler B-Tip with 59.5 grs of RL-19. Its a scream machine just over 3000 FPS. I would not expect that less massive, lighter, faster 150 gr bullet to get through brush with minimal deflection as the heavier 180 gr will.