Hi Joe,

  I wanted to tell you that yesterday afternoon, just  before dark, I took my first deer with a bow.  I was using one of your 225 grain Tuffheads and it worked just as it was supposed to. My little whitetail doe was not much of a test perhaps, but the wound in the lower 1/3rd of the heart bled immediately and the doe expired about 50 yards up the trail in probably less than two minutes.  This afternoon I went back out and found the arrow firmly planted into the stoney hillside right where the deer was walking. 

Thanks for helping make my first archery kill a textbook experience.  If I would have had to track her it would have been easy. 

  The bow is a Leon Stewart Slammer Special, 46#. The arrow is a Beman ICS Bowhunter 400, weighing 625 grains total with an FOC of 28%.

David Coulter, David W. Coulter Photography
david@davidwcoulter.com   www.davidwcoulter.com   570-688-9295
PO Box D,  Henryville, PA 18332

"Shot a real nice Black tail here in California and the last Grizzly here.... well, he might just be a black bear but, he looks like he could have some Grizzly blood....lol.  Shot the buck at 15 yards

and hit a little high, dropped him in his tracks and he slid down the hill to a creek, I hit him again as he was sliding down hill for insurance, oh! and the coyote was just a bonus.

The bear was a little closer @ 11 yards as he was coming up hill.

I spotted him about 250 - 300 yards away coming down the other side of a mountain, got my self in position as he came up the other side to me, hit both lungs coming in high on his back with a slight quartering at me shot, he never knew what happened..... just raised his head like what was that, then he shot forward about 20 yards and stood there wondering what was going on, when I heard him take a little stumble, then he started rolling down hill like a wheelbarrow full of cement, bowling over trees and brush crashing down hill about 150 yards to the bottom of the canyon.

Well, Like Mel Brooks said: " It's good to be the king ".....lol            Kingwouldbe 

Joe: I hope this finds you well and spunky. Here is what I’m posting to tradbow.com ...

Bill Kissner - Aug 2012  Just wanted to let you know I killed a cow Thursday morning August 30th . Used my Black Widow bow and one of your Tuffheads. Shot her at 8:30 AM. She was standing broad sided. Arrow entered mid ribs. It must have glanced off the side of a rib and deflected toward the rear slightly, going through one lung and then the liver. I took up the track after 30 minutes and jumped her from a bed after 150 yards. Waited about 30 minutes and resumed the track and jumped her again after only 75 to 80 yards. Came back to camp and gathered equipment and recruited some help to retrieve her from the deep canyon. We went back in at noon and found her dead about another 100 yards from the last bed. We evidently scared one or more bears off her as they had chewed on her front leg in the elbow area and removed a large section of skin in the lower belly area. There were some claw tears in other areas but no meat was damaged. We were lucky to have arrived when we did or I believe she would certainly been ruined. It took about an hour to drag her out of the canyon with my chain saw winch.

Joe Blake -
Good Morning Joe, Here are the results of my hunt yesterday morning here in MN: 22#, 10 1/4" beard, 1" spurs. Arrowed the Tom with a 57# Prairie Panther longbow and 850 grain tapered hickory shafts tipped with your 300 grain Tuffheads...the bird never knew what hit him as he simply walked slowly away for about 25 yards, laid down, and died quietly in plain sight. My kind of tracking job!
Thanks for everything...I leave for a Manitoba bear hunt in a couple weeks so hopefully I'll have some more pics to send you then.
Take care,
Joe Blake

( Joe builds bow and his website is www.prairielongbows.com. Take time to check it over. He makes a very nice bow )

Chuck Jones - Hi Joe, here are the pictures I have of the pig I shot. And here is the story.

While hunting in March 2012 in Texas, at the Wensel Pig Gigg; I shot a nice wild boar with the 225 Tuff Head. I was sitting in a brush patch on the ground at dusk when the boar came by at 15 yards. I made the shot, and the hog took off on a dead run,but the hit looked high,  so I came back in the morning.

The boar was lying where he fell, about 100 yards away, in view from the area of the shot. The Tuff Head did a great job, penetrating both sides behind the shoulder. It cut up both lungs and I'm sure the hog went down in just the few seconds it took him to run 100 yards. I shoot a 45#@28" Black Rhino longbow. The tuff Head gives me the confidence to hunt bigger game and expect full penetration and a quick kill. -Chuck Jones

Joe,

Joe: Enclosed is a South Alabama victim.

Arrow entered at very steep angle tight behind the shoulder triangle from tree 8-9 yards away.  It exited right beside the brisket until it hit the dirt.  It is not as sharp right after that incident as it was before but it is still very sharp to hunt with.  The blood trail was plenty good with excellent spots in some places along a 60 yard blood trail.

Just thought I would let you know.     Thanks,      Richie Nell

 2011 Whitetail - Steve Woodruff

Thanks for an awesome broadhead!!!  A Very Satisfied Customer,

        ... Read more of Steve's comments on his experiences with the TuffHead™

 2011 Hog - Vance Skinner

Vance Skinner received a couple of Tuffheads from his buddy David DeVille, and here is what happened on his first shot... on another hog that was destroyed by the Tuffhead, the shot was about 10-15 yards on a run, it took 2 steps and hit the dirt, blew a chip off of the socket and shattered the opposite leg bone. it's chin hit the dirt and began to plow dirt, then rolled about 80 yards down hill. More details on the equipment, a video on the shot, and some internals when opening up the hog...

Had a hunt last weekend and shot a deer and a hog with your Tuff-Heads. The buck was a broadside shot on a typical West Texas deer that was 3 yrs old I would say. The arrow buzzed throughout the deer on a double lung shot and I watched him fall at about 50 yards, total penetration and good blood trail but not needed. But more on Hank Boswells's hog in the photo...

2011 Elk -  David Peterson   “The Tuffhead™ broadhead, beefed up to 450 grains with insert and adapter, performed flawlessly and helped produce one of the cleanest and fastest kills in my 30 years of traditional bowhunting for elk.  I am convinced the long, narrow profile, along with superb factory sharpening, are  major elements in the Tuffhead’s excellent penetration performance.” – David Petersen  

David Petersen is the author of "Man Made Of Elk"   www.davidpetersenbooks.com

 2011 Canada Moose - Howard Harder

 "Hi Joe,     Thank you very much for the TuffHead™ broadheads, I received them on Friday, installed them on my cedar arrows and tested the 225 grain brass points and one TuffHead that evening. Saturday morning I was out hunting moose with my friend Harvey Kay in the Cypress Hills located 20 miles south of hometown of Maple Creek, Saskatchewan, Canada.     read more of Howard's story....