When mechanical SEVR broadheads first appeared last year, I was, of course, skeptical of them. They boasted they flew like field points (have we not heard that before?), penetrate anything and everything, and cut massive wound channels without fail. So, I thought, maybe I should give them a try. But before I took them afield, I needed to shoot them at home. A lot.
To paraphrase Donald Sutherland’s character, Vernon Pinkley, who said while he was impersonating a general and inspecting the troops in the classic 1967 movie, “The Dirty Dozen,” said: “Very pretty, colonel, very pretty. But can they fight?”
I asked the same thing about SEVR broadheads. Do they fly? Will they penetrate deeply and cut a big hole? Will they hold up to serious abuse?
First off,…