What is the Best Broadhead For Youth Archers???

Welcome! I'm Jake from Fether Archery here in Hillsdale, Michigan. Today, we will look at the best broadhead setup for youth archers or low-poundage shooters. There are several different broadheads available on the market.

First, we have our mechanical broadheads. Let's look at these and why they aren't the best option for our low-poundage shooters. A mechanical broadhead takes a lot of energy to get its three blades to deploy and start its cutting action. With our low-poundage shooters, we're not carrying quite enough energy to get these three blades to deploy on contact. There's a strong likelihood that when a youth archer uses one of these it will fly well but, when it comes in contact with a deer, it's not going to deploy and it won't create a good wound channel. You're going to get a pencil lead-sized wound channel and then probably not be able to find that animal because it wasn't doing any cutting action. So I recommend staying away from the mechanical broadheads for that reason.

Let's look at fixed-blade broadheads. There are a couple different styles on the market. There is the chisel tip and there is the cut-on contact. Our chisel tip is going to look like this. This is a Hades probe built by Grim Reaper. It has a chisel point at the end of it, and it is very sharp. This is an excellent broadhead, but if we set up a low-poundage shooter with this, we must understand it will take a little more energy to get this into the chest cavity. Because it has a chiseled tip, it has to plunge into that cavity, not necessarily cut or slice through. Our cutting action doesn't happen until further back on the broadhead, so it is a good option, but not the best possible.

The third one is going to be the fixed blade, cut-on-contact broadhead. We've got some of these in the store here at Fether Archery. These are our Magnus broadheads. These are actually going to be four-blade because they have these little stickers on the side of them. This is the Magnus four-blade Stinger. This is the Magnus four-blade Black Hornet. These are going to be excellent broadheads for youth archers. My kids have been shooting the Magnus Black Hornet for several years with forty and fifty-pound bows. They've got a couple of deer with them and really like them. This broadhead starts cutting on contact as soon as it hits the chest cavity and slices through the hide pretty well. It gets in there and starts doing necessary damage.

When we're talking about our youth archers, we want them to go out and grow their skills and love this sport, and in doing so, we want to set them up with the best possible equipment for success. Don't just give them your hand-me-down mechanical broadheads you're not using anymore because they may not have a successful hunt. We want to set them up with the proper broadheads for their setup and give them the best opportunity for success. They're going to love the sport more, and they're going to grow with it and be more successful. Thanks for watching! Check us out at fetherarchery.com and pick up a set of Magnus broadheads today, or stop by the store, and we'll look at your setup and get you out into the field, ready to make some great memories!