Shot a deer today with rage broadhead made good shot seer didn't go more than 100 yards

Rage are notoriously bad. They just run an awesome marketing campaign. And suckers buy into it.

How was the angle of the shot? On a high entry low exit, it you don't get a pass through, the cavity has to fill up with blood before it will come out the entry hole. The good thing is you got the deer. Every shot opportunity will be different and every blood tracking event will be different. We've had deer dead within 50 yds, no blood trail. We've also had deer who dumped what looked like buckets of blood, only to never be found. All part of bowhunting

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It's not an issue with the broadhead, it's an issue with shot placement and angle of entry in all likelihood.

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Exactly this. If your entry would was high and your exit either didn't happen (sounds like it here), was high, or was far back due to extreme angle than the guts can plug it. Low entry and exit wounds are normally what bleed the most, the cavity does fill with blood it just goes out low naturally, high wounds the body cavity has to fill up before blood comes out of the holes due to gravity. So unless you hit near a major blood vessel high, then yeah your blood trail will be affected.

The one issue with a Rage head, is the large cutting diameter directly affects the penetration so you more often will not have a pass through and therefore one less hole for blood to exit through. Furthermore, that exit wound is usually the lowest and the one that bleeds the most.

All I've ever hunted with are rage. It's all shot placement. I've actually only had 1 deer not pass all the way though with a Rage. The ones I've struggled with blood were due to the shot being too far back. I also like the 2 blade rage better than 3 blade.

Yeah I was using the rage hyperdermic broadheads deer was completely broadside at about 35 yards i hit it about an inch behind the shoulder blade in the middle of the deer. Like o said deer ran less than 100 yards and died in a road so found it quick but just no blood must've been a little high from what you guys are saying but I think I might start using fixed broadheads if there's more chance at a blood trail

[img]Rage are notoriously bad. They just run an awesome marketing campaign. And suckers buy into it.[/img]

untrue.

A huge amount of people shoot rage. There are bound to be some instances of problems, but I would venture that more often than not, people make a less than perfect shot and then blame it on the broadhead.

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about 35 yards

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Ah. Could it have been 45-50? Did you range it or at least step it off?

Here's a tip I have been using for a couple years in helping to recover deer that don't bleed much/at all but you KNOW the shot was probably lethal.

After the hit, while listening for the deers crashing/falling/running, memorize the last spot you actually saw the deer and it's direction.
Then, while still on stand, use a compass app on your phone to get a compass bearing of the direction deer was last seen. That way, when you get down and get turned around on the ground,(which happens) you can go to the spot where you last saw the deer and use that compass heading to figure out the deers direction from there. Obviously this is best used to help discover a blood trail if there is one, but also helps greatly when there is no blood to be found (high angle shot/no pass-thru,etc.)

Well I don't need yo7r help finding the goddamn deer I found the fricking thing pretty fricking soon and I made a good shot. All I fricking asked was do rages suck or not because this one should've bled better. Dipshits