The reason they appeared to penetration almost identically is that the gel stopped the arrow by squeezing the shaft like foam does. All the broadheads the same arrow so they penetrated approximately the same. I bet a target tip would penetrate about the same as the broadheads.

I would take the exodus out of all of these. The wound channel from the single bevel is really cool, but it acts against the arrow for penetration. Cool video.

great comparison of the broadheads. My only notes are that ballistic gell is a terrible media to demonstrate arrow penetration. It in no way represents an accurate comparison to an animal. Organs are highly mobile and will push and pull from the head and arrow shaft, gel only pulls into it and creates a large (inaccurate) amount of drag on the shaft. My second note is that bow hunters have gotten very lazy when it comes to broadheads. No one wants to put in the work to sharpen heads. Obviously, most "modern" designs with 3 or more blades are very hard to sharpen, but all 2 blade designs are sharpenable, and should be sharpened before a hunt. Even if its brand new. People have been dropping moose since the 1940s with Zwickey 2 blades and sub 60 lb recurves, the reason is because they keep their heads stupid sharp.. single bevel is a superior grind as well. It naturally spins while cutting, it pulls flesh into the cut instead of pushing it away, and when it contacts bone it doesnt slice into it, it splits and separates it causing far less shaft drag through the bone. Physics stands behind the superior cutting ability of single bevels

Slick trick is a 4 blade and the exodus is a 3 blade, so I would expect there to be less penetration from the slick trick. They are both amazing heads and will kill any deer when put in the right spot. Cool video.

It looks like you have a right bevel helix head. With a right single bevel head you NEED to have right hand fletching for it. Because if the arrow is spinning the opposite direction of the BH then you're wasting a lot of energy upon impact. Which is probably why it didn't penetrate as much as the multi-blade heads. This is why people use offset or helical fletchings for single bevel heads.

BQ, great video series. They helped me decide on the Helix. Keep up the good work. Scott

Very good vid man great attention to detail.

Just bought a pack of land shark broadheads they look sick should make a big cut for the 125 grain size guess we’ll see if I get a deer this yr. I also want to get the samurai and Maasai from grizzly stick some iron will heads and some woodsman elites three blade broadheads because I only have three blade broadheads that are kind of junky cheap ones that come in 4 parts and the steel on the blades have to be the cheapest Chinese steel I could get sharpen like shit very unhappy but online they looked sick my bad. I use a 400 grain shafts plus 125 grain heads making a total weight of 525 grains which should work great I think with my Ravin R10 crossbow that shoots at 380 FPS it’s my 1st year with the Ravin R10 crossbow but for the $1200 I paid for it which I had to pull the trigger because they sell for $1700 and I got a deal with a sick scope and a fantastic built in crank system which Uncan’t use in Massachusetts unless you can prove through doctors that I can’t pull a bow back because I have rheumatoid arthritis and my elbows and shoulders are beat up and I can’t pull a bow back even light pullback because my arms can’t move enough to pull a regular bow back enough to get a good shot off when I can only pull back a bow about 3/4 of what n needed to make a good shots that would most likely just injure a dear without good kill shot and I would hate to injury a dear that would not take a dear down for the count but just injure a dear and cause a deer to get a slow death which would only not kill a deer but only cause infection over time and I like to hunt and get kills not cause suffering at the best case but also that dear to get away and loose the meat and I believe in only taking shots to get the meat out which rather than taking shots that could only hurt a dear in away that just only hurts a dear so u can’t can’t get the meat due to how the dear how far the dear will run much further And will die weeks later f infection. I’m a very pro human kills rather than taking bad shots as I consider myself a humane hunter and don’t shoot deers die for many reasons unless the shot will cause death in 10-30 seconds. Poachers make me sick as do people who shoot for nothing but fun without eating what they’ve hunting

Good video 👍🏻The reason the qad exodus did better In The gel is the head and tip is bigger than the arrow shaft get alot of drag on the shaft in the gel , nothing to do with how good the heads perform on a deer all great heads , if you where using say a 204 shaft would see completely different results , not saying small arrows are better I like standard size shafts just gel is not realistic, to dry and sticky ! That's why I shoot bullet points bigger then my shaft easy to pull out of targets bigger hole shaft don't drag same principle

think the penetration is limited by the Gel on the arrow shaft...Your right...HELIX TWO BLADE SINGLE BEVEL cut rotational wound channel..and in real world on an animal ...would create best wound channel and SPLIT BONE....not my opininion...Evidence based studies..Read Dr.ASHBYS extensive testing

Land sharks need honed before use 2 blade broadheads are generally traditional broadheads don’t know to many people shooting 2 blade heads out of training wheels

Ballistic jell has way more drag on the arrow shaft than an animal. That’s one reason the two blades didn’t do better than the three blades. In a animal they would definitely out penetrate the 3 blades

Been looking for a review like this on the exodus. Definitely going to try them out next season. Even though you only get one broadhead for the price of 3 lol.

The two blades do not create as large of a wound channel as 3 and 4 blades, so there is more friction on the shaft which is why they under-penetrated.

Use a pipette to fill the wound channel and get a volumetric measurement

Slick trick I have used for three years on moose and deer and have had complete pass through on every thing the are a devastating broadhead

Will you please test out the hartcraft deep cut? I've heard the scoops in the head causes a pressure that allows for more penetration in gel

I wonder if the slick trick was affected by the proximity of the helix?

Have you ever tried Ramcat, Grim Reaper Hadies, Thunderhead Edge, etc?

You should compare them to the cheap Chinese arrowheads from eBay. I ordered some just for fun and they do ok for small game but I don't know if I should trust them for deer. I mean, people use stone points but..still... lol

So what if they don't spin right? Do you turn the knock? Cause once you glue in inserts it's too late right?

Every shot was a dead dear, if you want a massive wound channel try a toxic or a heavens forbid mechanical lol cheers mate top video :)

Simmons are meant to be sharpened out of the package to take off the bur.

Thought it was all great, these guys questioning how they were tested need to post up their own in depth review with other ways of doing so. Smh

Who makes that arrow spinner.it looks like a great devise

i think ramcat might beat them all in term of penetration.

what's your bow setup for this test.

there are a few things wrong with this testing but good video other then that

Omg, you have to sharpen simmons.

The helix WINS!! lol

rubber bands were to tight, does not reflect real bodies