Magnus Single Bevel BLASTED THROUGH BONE!

Hey everybody, welcome back guys. We're on board. The good Lord blessed me with a nice size doe last night here in Southwest Michigan, right behind the house. What I wanted to do for this video is I wanted to just real quick take you through that hunt, kind of how it went down, how things transpired. But really what I want to show you guys is a heavy arrow and Magnus single bevel broadhead performance on what was not a great first shot by me. This broadhead right here, this is the first shot and it went through a lot of bone. So that's what I want to show and kind of explain to you guys. So stay tuned. All right, so at least for how the hunt went down. So again, this is my backyard, swampy property, 21 acres here in Southwest Michigan. And we've had a small food plot with an elevated box blind back there for a while. And there was a big weather front moving through. I think a lot of you probably experienced it. And a lot of you guys here in the Midwest are experiencing a really awesome cold front. But last night, Sunday, that front was coming through and there was a bunch of rain coming. And it looked like that rain was gonna break with probably about an hour left of daylight. So I wanted to be in the blind before it started raining and then ride out that rain. And hopefully that last hour or so when the rain stops, the deer are up on their feet and moving. And we've been seeing a few does, not a ton, but a couple, like three, four in our food plot morning and evening. And in the evening, they've been coming in right on the edge of shooting light. So that's what, honestly, I was hoping to see last night. I was 100% looking for a doe. A buck would have been a bonus, but we were pretty much doe hunting. And it went down pretty much how I was hoping it would. The weather broke with probably about 45, 50 minutes left of shooting light. It was quiet for a while. And then the last five to seven minutes, it was definitely getting pretty dark. We still had light. So what's tough, and you guys probably know if you hunt in a box blind, you keep it all nice and closed up so you can get away with a lot of stuff. It's all kind of blacked out in there. So even when they're shooting light in the food plot, it's dark inside that blind. And so I was kind of thinking, all right, I'll start packing up some stuff a little bit here for the last five, seven minutes, then we'll slip out of here. Well, I was doing that. I was putting some stuff in my backpack and then I reached down and I put my vinyl harness on. I didn't think I made a lot of noise, but I looked up and there's two does standing in the food plot. They're probably like 30 yards. They had just stepped out of my one miscanthus screen and they were standing right there. They were looking right at the blind. So they had obviously heard me rustling around a little bit. So I was like, crap, I might've boogered this one. There they are, right at the edge of light. But they kind of just stood there for a minute and while they were standing there, I just real slowly, real quietly, as quietly as I could, I took my vinyl harness back off. I was reaching for my bow. I don't think they could see me with just how dark it was inside the blind. And they eventually kind of calmed down and they started feeding right my way. So they went from 30 yards to 15 yards, which was great. So I'm like, okay, this is, you know, I can make this shot. I turned my little pin light on, on my bow. They were facing me and they were just feeding facing me. So I was a little worried that I was gonna run out of light and have these deer close and, you know, have to wait them out. And they were kind of in between my two vertical windows. So I shifted a little bit to just kind of see if I could, I don't know, get a little angle on one of them when it was gonna, if it was gonna turn. And when I shifted, I made just a little bit of noise and the bigger doe, she kind of feed in on the blind again. But this time she was kind of keyed up on it. She walked, you know, she was just walking parallel to me and walked right into my front main window and gave me a broadside shot. So I drew back quick. She heard me draw and she stopped. And this is where guys, like 100%, perfectly honest, like this is where I kind of screwed up. So she was only like 15 yards and my top pin is 20. And I know I need to hold low. And I know I not only need to hold low just to hit where I wanna hit, but also that she's probably gonna react. And just having them keyed up, being really low on light and not knowing how much longer she was gonna tolerate hearing stuff from the blind, I basically put that 20 yarder like right on, you know, right behind her shoulder and just kind of center of body and I touched it off. And I should have known better. I should have taken an extra second. But she may have ducked. I don't know. But I know I did not execute the shot well. I did not hold where I needed to. So I hit her high and she dropped. And I immediately thought like, crap, I gotta get another arrow in her. So I grabbed another arrow and I just could not get a good angle in the blind. So I got out as fast as I could, walked around her, got another arrow in her. And then, you know, that was that. So unfortunately, you know, I don't feel great about that. I never feel great when I have to put a second arrow in a deer or when you make a bad shot like that. But I took care of business as fast as I could. And ultimately, you know, shooting a setup that was able to go through what it went through was allowed me to, you know, put a deer in my freezer. And so that's what I want to show you guys. So this is what I filmed last night when I had her in the barn. I want to show you where I hit both the first shot and the second one. You'll see them here in the video. And then what this broadhead and what my arrow went through. All right, you guys, here she is. And I kind of moved some of her fur and stuff away so you guys could see, you know, the results. And I just want to talk about the broadhead here. So this is a field-dressed 108-pound Southwest Michigan doe. She was like 15 yards, like I mentioned before. And my elevated box blind's about eight feet off the ground. So first shot right there. That one's the follow-up. So obviously you guys, not ideal on the first shot. I'm not going to make any excuses. I just shot high on her. But that Magnus single bevel definitely kind of bailed me out and that's why I like shooting those heavier fixed blades, the single bevels with a heavier arrow setup because on entry, we went through like the top of her shoulder and bottom of her spine. So you guys can kind of see hopefully the shoulder moving right there. So top of shoulder, bottom of spine. And then we came out kind of dead nuts through the other shoulder. And that's what dropped her. And I scrambled as fast as I could. I probably should have even put this one a little lower with her, you know, laying on the ground. But second one right there. And with her laying, it came out a little high. But I did the best I could in a situation where plan B happened. But kudos, you know, to Magnus for building the broadhead. That's going to be able to give you a chance when you miss high on a deer like this. Some broadheads might not give you that chance. And that's really why I like to shoot the heavier setups, the single bevels and, you know, the Magnus heads because they are tough, they are durable. They're able to go through stuff like that. The head looks great. I'll be able to resharpen it, no problem, and use it again. All right, so it was actually going to be fairly warm today, Monday, the day after I shot her. So I really didn't want to leave her hang overnight. So I just went ahead, I quartered her up, and I was able to get a much better look at where I actually went through. And I'm not going to show those images, you guys. I mean, they are a little graphic. So you'll just have to take my word for it that I was able to understand a little better even what I went through. So I was right in my assessment of, I did go through the top part of the scapula. And it was, I did not hit kind of like that raised, you know, part of the shoulder blade that runs right through the middle. I hit kind of just the top edge of the bone, the flat part of the bone. I went through that. I hit the spine a little more solidly than I originally thought. I thought maybe I kind of like flipped the bottom of it. I definitely hit the bottom, but I basically blew out, you know, the whole bottom half, maybe even a little bit more of her spine. There was just a big, you know, chunk taken out of that. So it broke right through the bottom part of her spine. And then again, in the scapula on the exit side, and again, I did not hit that raised section. I went through, you know, kind of the flat part. I don't exactly know how far my arrow was sticking out, but it did go through both sides. She broke it. It's hard to tell when she, you know, fell and stuff like that, exactly how much penetration I had, but I had enough to get through the flat part of both shoulders and basically take the whole bottom part of her spine out. So, you know, that's just a testament, I guess, to how these setups can perform when you make a bad shot like I did and plan B happens. And I guess just, you know, for you guys, total arrow weight setup is a serious bulk in 600 grains. That includes the 150 grain Magnus single bevel. I shoot a 31 inch draw and I shoot a 60 pound bow. So that's kind of the setup. It's not fast by any means, but as you can see, you know, on a decent size, a fairly average size doe here in Michigan, it performed very well. So now I actually want to flip the camera around. I want to show you guys how the broadhead itself looks, the one that went through all that bone. So you guys can see how well it actually held up after it went through all that. All right, here's the broadhead from the first shot, the one that went through all that bone. You guys can see it still looks really good. It's still nice and straight. Tip didn't curl or anything. It's actually still pretty sharp too. The whole broadhead is still pretty sharp. It's not hunting sharp, but it is in totally fine condition to resharpen and go right back in my quiver. Only thing you'll notice, you can probably see it a little bit, is kind of on like the leading edge of the blade up toward the front. There's just a little bit of edge chatter, but for what it went through, that doesn't bother me one bit and we'll be able to take care of that no problem when we go to resharpen this thing. So kudos Magnus, you guys built another awesome head. That bailed me out and plan B happened. All right, so that's what I got for you guys. I hope this video helps you out. I hope you enjoyed just some actual on animal performance with a setup, a compound bow setup that has all the principles, has all the things that we've talked about a lot on this channel that has come from basically all the things that Troy Fowler, the Ranch Ferries talked about, all the types of things that Dr. Ed Ashby and all of his studies, all those principles, what they talk about and just how it actually, it resulted in me being able to have a successful harvest when plan B happened. And again, I take full responsibility for that shot, you guys, I should have known better. I shouldn't have rushed quite as much as I did. Whether or not she ducked, I don't know, it doesn't matter. I know I did not put my pin exactly where I needed to to make that shot better. But that is why I have confidence in these types of setups. And typically when I do miss, I miss high and low. I usually don't have a ton of issues shooting like back on deer. So I like the ability of a heavier setup, a single bevel, to get through bone if like last night, if I do shoot high, that it's gonna give me a chance to get through that deer and make a successful hunt instead of potentially with a lighter setup or a different broadhead, that might not have happened. Don't know, but I know that plan B worked for me last night and I hope that this helps give you guys confidence if you are looking at these type of setups. So wanna give a special thank you, as always, to Troy for being a great mentor and being someone that really kind of got me into this. I wanna say thank you to Magnus. This is another awesome product and my first shot with it, it definitely, it bailed me out and the performance was excellent. And I'm gonna be able to use this head once again. And just as always, I wanna thank the good Lord for blessing me with meat in the freezer. And I cherish every single deer that I shoot, that hunting is so special to me and being able to feed my family with good quality, healthy meat, I absolutely love and we certainly like harvesting those and make sure we got enough meat in the freezer to last us the whole year. So thank you, Lord. Thank you guys for tuning in. I hope you enjoyed this video. As always, if you did, please do me a favor, hit that like button down below. Also, don't forget to subscribe. We'll see you guys soon on the next video. Take care, good luck out in the woods. God bless and remember, be a sportsman, make a sportsman.