DAY SIX EVO & EVO X Broadhead Test
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- This is a test of the Day Six Evo & Evo X. Thanks to some viewers, I realized the previous test I had done on these heads was of a model that hasn't been on the market for the last couple years. They sent me the model that has been on the market for the last couple years and this is the test of those.
I'm using a Bowtech SR6 at 72# & 27" draw length and Bishop FOC King Arrows, 460 grs and Bishop FAD Eliminator Arrows for the concrete test.
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In case you're not familiar with my new test protocol, here is what I'm doing now:
1. Flight Test--1 field point & 2 broadheads out my by Bowtech SR6 at 40 yds, to see how well they group together.
2. Sharpness Test: I have a new test for edge sharpness and edge retention, using the Edge on Up Sharpness Tester. I test it out of the box and then again after Penetration Test 1, to see the edge retention.
What are some common scores for other edges? Here are some examples:
A butter knife takes 2000 grams of pressure to break the co polymer wire.
A new high end cutlery edge takes approx 375 grams of pressure to break the wire.
A utility razor blade takes approx 200 grams to break the wire.
Based on the many broadheads I have tested, here is my scoring scale:
Out of the Box Sharpness:
0-200 gr: 10
201-300 gr 9
301-400 gr: 8
401-500 gr: 7
501-600 gr: 6
601-700 gr: 5
701-800 gr: 4
801-900 gr: 3
901-1000 gr: 2
1001-1100 gr: 1
1101+ gr: 0
3. Edge Retention: Sharpness difference after Penetration Test 1:
10 minus 1 point for every 50 grams of sharpness difference. For example, if the initial sharpness was 400 gr of pressure and the sharpness after Penetration Test 1 was 450, the head would receive a 9 for Edge Retention Score.
4. Penetration Test 1: one shot into a combined medium of 2/3" of rubber mat, 1/2" MDF and Clear Ballistics FBI Grade Gel. This is to roughly simulate the tissue of an animal--hide, bone and muscle/fat.
5. Penetration Test 2: one shot into layers of cardboard.
6. Durability Test: For fixed blade heads, I take up to 5 shots into .22 ga steel plate and then evaluate the damage to the head. This is a good test to see the overall durability of the blades, as well as their connection to the ferrule. For mechanical heads, I take up to 5 shots into 1/2" MDF and then evaluate the damage to the head.
7. Concrete Test. This is a zero penetration test, which is a good test of the overall structural integrity of a head.
NOTE: Of course I understand we don't hunt steel plates and concrete, but all of these tests simply provide DATA POINTS for you to use in determining which broadhead is best for your hunting purposes. A well placed shot with pretty much any broadhead will get the job done most of the time. But why not prepare for the worst and buy the best you can?
If one head can hold up to multiple shots in steel & concrete-and another cannot--all other things equal, wouldn't you want to use the head that can withstand the steel and concrete? And after taking hundreds of animals with my bow, I've seen some bone shots cause more damage to a broadhead than even a cinder block.
The goal for all of us is to stack the odds in our favor as much as possible, and select a broadhead that is as lethal as possible for our bow/arrow set up and for the animal we are hunting.
At the end of each of my broadhead tests, you will find a score sheet listing all the results of the testing, so you can compare heads based on what factors matter to you the most. I also have an overall LUSK GRADE that is an evaluation of how the head performed in all the tests combined.
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Nice, i think these and the similar Iron Wills are super good choise for fixed head guys like me. There's a lot to like.
+1 on those Iron Wills, they're awesome.
Yep.
I'm impressed. I'd be happy hunting with this broadhead. It should work on anything we have in North America.
Yep.
I use these broadheads and LOVE them, I use the EVOx, i use their arrows as well shooting total 660 grains. it destroys deer and I have yet to ruin a head or an arrow
Very good. Thanks for sharing that.
You hunting whales?
Great review. The EVO looks like a head that would pair well with an Ethics 125 grain insert. Slight chatter after sticking in that concrete deeply was both impressive & acceptable. Well ✔ 👍.
Thanks Joseph.
For those of you who don't know, Day 6 makes absolutely amazing arrows. Myself and all my friends use them and we have yet to have one break. They have a great outsert system and hit hard.
Great customer service and a great company.
Thanks for watching & commenting.
I shot a coyote with one the other day and she chewed it up bad enough it broke. I dont think anything would have survived that tho
Well those are just about perfect heads... Great video!
Thanks Drew.
John these videos are incredible. I love the broad head tests!
Thanks Kaleb! Great hanging out with you the other day.
If nothing else…. It has to be the best looking broad head I have ever seen.
I got hypnotized watching it. Great test as always Senior Lusk.
Haha. Thank you!
Very impressive head
Yes sir.
Wow the Evo flew right with the field point. Also very sharp. Very good indeed.
Yep. Thanks for watching & commenting.
I think I found next years broadhead.very very impressive.Thanks John.
Thanks Eric.
I'll have too get some! Thank's for this!
Glad to help.
Another OUTSTANDING review from the best in the business. Watch and listen to his reviews as they are very thorough so you can decide what broadhead works for your particular situation. I decided on the Sevrs based on his testing information. Everything he stated and showed was spot on and they are perfect for my mule deer and elk hunts here in AZ.
That's great to hear, Scott. Thank you!
Well I purchased 6 of the exact one with 3/4 bleeders and shot to the target and it hit a sleeve that was stuck in the target from previous head but only the aluminum sleeve and I was disappointed on how much edge chatter I got on the blade.. I've done same thing before with iron will or kudu and absolutely no damage
The edge chatter was way more than what you showed
S30V is prone to that…but less so than most of the steels used in broadheads. A2 is much more resistant to impact, as are high carbon steels. But hard to compare something like you’re mentioning; so many factors involved, especially the angle of impact. These did fairly well in my testing, as you can see. I once shot a Bishop Scientific Method into a hog and it went thru and hit a rock and the tip got pretty bent up-and those heads use the most impact resistant steel of any broadhead on the market. Hard impacts at strange angles can be tough on any head.
When I tested Day Six’s original .050” thick heads, they did not do well on hard impacts; that’s why they changed them to .060” a couple years ago.
Commented above from my other channel.
My friend had been told by an archery shop to stay away because they were made of cheap steel. I'd say they are pretty darn good!
Definitely not cheap steel. That person is very misinformed. Like I said in the vid, s30v is more resistant to impact than the vast majority of the steels used in broadheads. It's not nearly as resistant to impact as A2 or S7 or 41L40, so that may be what he is referencing. It can be prone to edge chatter in very hard impacts, as you could see in the concrete. But again, it's much better than most steels used and is also more corrosion resistant than the 3 tool steels I mentioned. Several factors affect a broadhead's durability--type of steel, hardening process used, and geometry (the thickness, length, and shape of the head). When this head was .050" thick, it was not nearly as durable as it is with it being .060" thick now.
Man those are stout little broadheads, especially that Evo. Keep up the good work John.
Thanks Brian.
Man those are impressive now! Kudos to Day6!
Yep.
Great looking broadhead.. someday ill have to try them out
Yep, worth a look. Thanks Mikey.
A great broadband. Good show. I like this broadband.
Thanks for watching & commenting.
These are the heads I used to use and there great heads since then iv changed to the iron wills both are top notch heads if you like fixed blades can’t go wrong with either
Yep. Agreed. I really like the A2 tool steel in the Iron Wills, but these did very well also.
@@LuskArcheryAdventures yes they did I never had any issues with them when I used them only reason I even changed was because the iron wills were a tad easier to sharpen with the guide from stay sharp with the straight bevel instead of the slight convex on the day six
I'm probably the only person whom didn't like the iron will broadheads.
I can tell you this, I will be buying a six pack of the EVO XL for my recurves!!!
Nice.
Now that is a cool head
Agreed.
Good job
Thank you
Thank you for showing us the tests I really appreciate it, I was thinking about the name “day 6” and thought it might have been because God created land animals on the 6th day and that was what the broadhead was made for, I wasn’t too far off😁
Yep, that is the source of the name.
This is an iron will alternative. If you want an iron will but don’t have the coin buy the day six. At least that’s what it seems like. Good looking head
They have some similarities--not that much of a difference in price, but there is some.
Very strong quality products 👍
Thanks for watching & commenting.
These heads look great. I'm using the Sevr 2.0s right now but may buy 3 of these X models for elk next season. Question. I haven't seen you do a sharpness test on the Sevr heads with your current testing. How do they compare to score out of the package?
Great vid bud. We all appreciate these.
Thanks brother. I haven't tested the Sevr on the sharpness tester; I need to do that. They're probably average; but can be easily sharpened.
I know this video is a couple years old but after hearing the founder of Day 6 on a couple of podcasts, I’d take IW over these any day of the week 😬
:)
Great video as usual. If they made a single bevel head I'd be all over it.
Thanks for watching & commenting.
‘Bout dad gum time somebody sent him some of these.
Haha. Thanks
Thanks for the reviews. Love your videos but there's gotta be something wrong with that scale the way it always ends up on a round number...
The sharpness tester? It rounds to the nearest 25 grams.
@@LuskArcheryAdventures Makes sense. Thanks for the reply.
I wondered if the day six name was a reference to genesis…that was my guess atleast. Pretty cool
Right? I love that.
We're not going to mention those blunted tips after the sheet metal test?
Sorry, I can't remember what happened in that test. Hard to keep up with it all. I do my best to note everything I can, but sometimes I overlook something.
Mr. Lusk, I have to say that you are very handsome. Ah really beautiful smile. Very very nice....
Haha. Well, thank you.
Do you think these are better than exodus qads or TOTA for crossbow hunting? I use a ravin an shoot 100 grain heads. I do take longer than normal shots..up to 60
Ya know, it all depends on the individual crossbow and bolts being used. There is VERY little standardization between crossbows nowadays. Overall, the less the surface area, the better the flight.
Because the prices are so close, which one would u pick if you got to go out with 1 arrow and choose 1 broadhead and have to pick between the evo or evo x, or an ironwill. Those where the only 2 you was allowed to pick from what would u pick?
Man, they’re both good. The size of animal I’m hunting may determine that. The bigger the animal, the smaller the head, and vice versa.
Thanks for the info, just ordered some ironwills single bevels, and some megameats, probably gonna order some evos to try out as well. Just started hunting this year spring turkey will be my official first hunt so trying to prepare for that
Have you tested Valkyrie blood eagles? I just started using them and out of my V3 they are deadly accurate!
I've not tested them, but I have tested the Jaggers; I think the only difference is the threading, right?
Is there a link for the company?
Just look up day six archery
@@paytenblevins3401 👍
Yeah, as mentioned: just Google Day Six Archery
Imagine those in a single bevel....
They really prefer a double bevel; I think there are advantages to both types.
What do you think of these vs the iron will?
They're both good heads. Edge to the Iron Will in my opinion--the A2 steel is a bit more resistant to impact.
Honesty if they made these with straight instead of curved blades they’d basically be perfect 10/10 but the curved blades doesn’t make it nearly as convenient to sharpen
Yeah, I feel similarly. But if you use a Stay Sharp Guide C, then they're just as easy.
John I have found an interesting head I would like to see you test.
Where do I send em brother?
Thanks
Donut Dan
Great! Thanks. What is it? I'd like to make sure I haven't already tested it, or someone isn't in the process of sending me one. My address is: 6159 Nottingham Dr, Johnston, Iowa, 50131 Thank you
@@LuskArcheryAdventures Its called the All Blade broadhead. It's made to go behind a fieldpoint.
Have you seen em?
DD
S30V isn't made to hit concrete I've dropped s30v bladed knives and just hit a concrete and mess the tip up but as far killing animals should do really good and will get a lot sharper that the factory edge
They’ve not improved to S35V I believe.
@@LuskArcheryAdventures honestly with knives as far as sharpness tough and how they hold a edge I can't tell a difference between s30v and s35v aleast not in Spyderco and Benchmade knives they aren't very much difference between the 2 steels if it has a proper heat treatment I'd like to have a broadheads made out of m490 or 204p or 20cv but they would be more expensive but will take a really keen edge and hold it better and is a tougher steel than s30 or s35vn
Hey John, What is your tuning / sight in process when you go from head to head? I just started to shoot VPA single bevels and there's a big difference from how my field points fly.
I know I am not John, but if it helps, I will share what I do. If the arrows are flying well and grouping together with field points, I go straight to rest tuning. At 20 yards, I shoot one arrow with a broadhead then shoot a group of field points. Then I adjust my rest in very small increments and repeat until the arrows group together. Then I move back to 30 amd repeat. Then move back to 40 and repeat. I don't stop until the arrows all group at 65. Remember, the goal is to get your broadheads and field points grouping together at at your furthest hunting distance or beyond that, not to tear bullet holes in paper a few feet from your bow. Paper tuning is just getting you to the starting line. Broadheads grouping with field points is the finish line (you may already know that, but I didn't when I was newer to bowhunting and I was afraid that moving my rest would screw up the paper tune). It is way easier if you have a rest with micro adjustments, but totally doable without micro adjustments. I have not had to do any more than that to get broadheads to tune. Any more than that is where my expertise ends and I would take it in to the pro shop.
If the arrows are not shooting right to begin with, the rest tuning will not fix it. That is a long discussion on its own, but an overview of what I do is to start by squaring off both ends of the arrow (the nock sides are often out of square from the factory), then spin the arrow with a broadhead while I glue in the inserts to make sure that they spin well and don't wobble. After that, I go out and shoot the bare shafts and nock tune them until they all hit the target straight. Once I have them nock tuned, I fletch them with a pretty tight twist helical (my guess is around 5°) and I use AAE Max Stealth vanes because they have a lot of surface area but not a lot of mass. Then I shoot broadheads on each arrow, rest tune as necessary and if I have any arrows that are fliers, I try nock tuning them further. Usually that is all that I need to do, and it is not too often that I can't get every arrow in a dozen to fly right with broadheads. The few times I have had an arrow that just would not behave, I mark it as a practice only arrow. If you buy pre-built arrows, I would just try squaring the nock end and nock tuning. If you find that still does not help the arrow tuning issues, I recommend either building your own arrows or working with your pro shop through the arrow building process. If the arrows all do the same thing in the same way with broadheads, the issue is probably not the arrows, it is bow related. Rest tuning will sort out most of those problems if not all.
My bad. Got long winded. I always do when I am talking about things I really care about.
I don’t make any changes. Once my bow is well tuned, enough to shoot bare shafts in the same spot and at the same angle as vaned shafts, almost every head flies well. I have 20% FOC and use helical Blazers and the straightest arrows on the market, so that helps as well.
Commented above from my other channel: John L
I just realized the comment said from head to head. Once you are dialed, different heads should not matter, but if you went from a light, vented head to a heavier solid head, the bow may not have been as dialed as you thought because small vented heads are more forgiving of minor bow tuning imperfections than bigger solid broadheads. It is possible the newer head may require a stiffer spine too if you bumped up the point weight a good bit, but that problem would still likely show up when shooting your field points. When I shot 100 grain slick tricks, they seemed to fly fine with zero tuning effort on a 340 spine arrow. When I switched to 175 grain VPA three blades, I had to stiffen the spine of my arrows to a 300 spine (they shot well on a 250 spine as well. I bought and tuned both because I did not know, and I ended up just deciding to use a 250 spine so I could use heavier broadheads if I wanted), and that is where I had to do a good amount of rest tuning to bring the field point group and broadhead arrow together. After that, I did not have to rest tune again, even when switching broadheads, until I bought a new bow (thanks John for helping me decide to try an Xpedition). I now shoot 250 grain broadheads with a 50 grain insert and I did not have to touch my rest at all when I built up those arrows. Once the bow is dialed, different heads should not give you issues, but to get my bow there to begin with, I have to tweak my rest position while shooting one broadhead and a group of field points until the groups come together. If your arrows are doing what they should with field points and broadheads are consistently impacting outside the field point group, then tuning your rest is generally all you need to do to fix it.
I guess I am making a lot of assumptions about what Joe has going on. What were you shooting before and what point weight are you shooting now with the VPAs? Also, are you building your arrows or buying them pre-built?
Id get those if I didn't have magnus black hornets .
BHs are great heads
Looks like an iron will copy cat?
There are some similarities.
Then you aren’t really looking at either of them.
I thought you wouldn't test day six because they screwed over your buddy
Yeah, but after a few years and so many requests to test them, I decided that my testing needed to be "outside the fray" of any other issues. So I told my buddy and then tested them out.
Looks like someones trying to copy ironwills
Well, they’re curved blades and use a different steel and have bleeders much more forward on the ferrule. Solid Legends, Evos, Iron Wills are all quality 2 blade heads with 2 bleeders; some similarities and some differences.
Commented from my other channel, John L
More like the other way around….
It's a timeless design.