By Bob Robb When it comes to new broadheads, if you want to talk about space-age, outside-the-box thinking, you need to check out the new Toxic broadhead from Flying Arrow Archery.
The company was founded in 2012 by Chris Rager, who in a previous life owned Trophy Ridge/Rocket Aeroheads before selling the company in 2007. Chris has been a friend for more than a decade and is one of the most serious and successful bowhunters I know, both in the U.S. and across the pond in Africa. He’s always been an outside-the-box thinker, and so when he wanted to bring a new broadhead to market he wanted to engineer a product that would change the way archers think. Past experience told him that today’s bowhunters are looking for a broadhead with the characteristics he wants—laser-straight flight, superior strength, and something that would create maximum hemorrhage and tissue damage. Though he owned a mechanical broadhead company, Chris has always been partial to a fixed blade broadhead because of their strength, but he also liked the flight characteristics and wound channel produced by the best mechanical broadheads. So, after nearly three years of frustration in designing a new head that would have been different than all the others, but not different enough, it hit him. The concept is a true coring broadhead unlike anything out there. And the truth is, bowhunters have tried to get a “coring” broadhead to work effectively for years by putting blade rings around the back of the fixed blades or using them as bleeder blades. The problem was most of the arrow’s energy was lost when the ring hit ribs. Chris always liked the basic concept of coring, yet he knew the old concept would not be satisfactory. This thinking is how Chris came up with the unique and innovative “Toxic” broadhead. The 100-grain Toxic broadhead screws into today’s modern arrow inserts. It is a 100 percent coring broadhead and has no fixed linear blades, but instead has multiple replaceable blades that are razor sharp and taper back instead of being perpendicular to the target—a design that increases penetration dramatically over the design of yesterday. The Toxic head flies straight and quiet like field tips do, it has great penetration, and it has reduced wind drag. It has a very low profile, yet has over 4.7 inches of cutting surface. Best of all, it has no moving parts, set screws, clips, O-rings or rubber bands. Chris has shot a lot of game with this broadhead to date, and he told me the wound channel it creates is massive and the blood trails easy to follow. It leaves a wound channel described by a surgeon as a “Radical Core Decompression” wound—the most lethal of wounds. I have not personal tested Toxic broadheads yet, but have some on the way and cannot wait to give them a go. You can get more information here.
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