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Originally Posted by Pureluck
Has anyone used the Carbon Express® Quad Pro™ 100 Broadhead or the Carbon Express XT 4? I am really interested due to the price of these heads on how well they compare to others. I would supply a link and pictures but havent had enough posts yet  |
To be totally honest, my bud and I both try out different heads from time to time always looking for "THE' one, like others I suppose.
He picked up the Quad Pro, and I picked up the XT 4 Blades. We swapped out one each to give them a whirl. For him, the Quad flew great hitting right with his ST's and Stingers, where the XT hit a bit off from the group. Initially his thought were they were both very good. To my knowledge he hasn't put them to any field testing as of yet, but after my results below with the Quad, has decided to try out the XT this fall on some hogs.
On mine, they both flew fair hitting close enough for my use out to 40yds. I didn't shave any fletching, but they were within a 4-5" groups with the rest of my heads.
However with the Quad, mine went through an area of the target, and slid into the dirt burm backstop at the range. It appeared to have hit a rock, but after rooting around for several minutes, the biggest I cold find was only one about the size of a marble. The impact bent the ferrel to the point it rendered the head useless, and rolled the nose of the blade over pretty good. Had I not hit this same area with several other heads, in a similar circumstance, I would have only figured this to be part of the game. But with the other heads, I got no more damage other than the normal tip or edge of a blade being somewhat curled, but not the ferrel and blades both. Considering that the velocity has already been decreases quite a bit by going through the foam, this pretty well turned us off the Quad.
The XT, on the other hand, has been shot numerous times, and at game. The "at" part, meaning I haven't quite got them into the hogs just yet, but not from a lack of trying.
This said they HAVE impacted several different types of ground ranging from creek sand, to somewhat gravel and iron ore laden E. Texas red clay. They have held up well to the repeated rough treatment only needing a bit of time on the sharpening jig. In fact, a couple of the shots which only hit the loose sand were put right back on the bow, they still shaved a bit but were not quite as sharp, as would be expected, as when right off the stone. One thing I personally don't like about them is the looseness of the bleeder blades. They seem to rattle around a bit, but I cannot say that this has effected the accuracy of them, or that it makes them a bad head. Just from a mechanical background, the more secure things are, the less likely they are to possibly break.
For my money, if looking to choose one over the other, I would definitely go with the XT over the Quad, simply from what I have seen. As was mentioned, the similar design to the Silver Flame is what drew us to try them initially. We both love the way they have the longer cutting angled radiused blades. They simply look like they would slice right on through something as was evident in the previous post with the hog.