Here’s a good look of the BEAST. And man, it truly is a beast of a broadhead! There is so much going on here. First of all, you see it here in the close position, 2-blade broadhead. This is a 2-inch cutting diameter. In the closed position, it closes to 0.64″, so I assumed it would be very streamlined in flight and fly extremely well.

You can see here that the ferrule starts really narrow at the tip, and then gets larger. That’s going to help in arrow dynamics and flight forgiveness as well as penetration. Also, notice the multiple groves in the ferrule as well as the tip and that’s going to aid in flight forgiveness as well. As it rotates around, it traps air in there and makes it a bit more forgiving as well as helping with durability.

The two little wings at the front that impact the hide are not sharpened. But, when they impact, a spring is released and then the blades spring open at 750 miles per hour! (On the package, it says 650 but they have since added an extra component inside that actually increases the deployment speed to 750 miles an hour). That’s actually breaking the sound barrier! Plus, if you’re shooting it at 250, 300 feet per second, it’s all the faster.

The blades of the BEAST broadheads are 0.035″ thick. They have a nice curve to them when they are open. That curve is going to aid in penetration and cut as well.

Here are the blades of the BEAST in the open position.

Note that each pack comes with two little finger gloves so that you can grab the blades, and that’s what you need to wear when you want to close them again. You just grab them and pinch them down. It works really well. Don’t try doing it with your bare hands, as the blades are extremely sharp.

But here, the springs serve a secondary purpose after being opened. If bone is encountered, then the blades can compress back, and that allows them to stay straight as they continue to penetrate and not lose their edge and not lose the energy. They just can go right around that blade and then they spring back into place after a quarter of an inch. So that extra tension can allow them to go right between or around bone and then spring back to their full open position.

This head is the 100 grain and so it uses an aluminum ferrule (7075 aluminum) which is a really good aluminum. I always say if you are going to use aluminum, that’s a good one to use. It’s stronger than some steels. But, perhaps in heavier models that come out in the future, they will use all steel, not sure.

As you can see, the BEAST flew right next to the field points, as you would expect from an expandable.

It only took 125 grams of force to cut through the wire which is a 10 on a 10-point scale.

It penetrated 7-3/4″. And here’s the entrance hole. It opened an inch and a half on this medium and it’s not uncommon for heads to not fully open on this medium so I’ll do a more formal opening test in a minute.

Wow! It took no additional force to cut through the wire, which is a 10 on a 10-point scale.

The BEAST penetrated through 52 layers of cardboard.

The entrance hole was 1-3/4″. But, on the back of the box, it had opened up to almost 2-1/2″.

It had no problem with the angled MDF.

It was in great shape after 3 shots through the MDF. The only signs of wear are right close to the ferrule where you can see the blades kicked forward into the tip and made a little bit of a dent in the blade there.

It held up very well through the 2 shots in a steel plate. You can see it got a little bit of edge chatter in the edges of the blades and the tip got a little bit rolled over. And then you can see the holes. They are a little smaller than the cutting diameter and that’s just because of that spring mechanism. They can’t open fully when going through a steel plate, which is understandable.

I shot the BEAST into a concrete block. The tip embedded really deeply into the concrete which was pretty cool to see. There’s no getting that thing out!

So here it is after impacting the concrete. And as you can see, it broke right there in the ferrule. I managed to find one of the blades that had flown quite a way across the yard. And I as I say all the time, the concrete test is not like a pass-fail. It’s not like, “Oh, this broadhead failed because it didn’t hold up to the concrete.” That only accounts for 3% of the overall score. As for the durability of this, man, it held up very well through the MDF and the steel plate as well.

The BEAST broadhead scored 91.86 out of 100 on my Lusk Grade scale!

Here’s a good look of the Exact Archery Broadhead here. This is 4-blade, as you can tell and it’s the 100-grain model. Now, I will note that just for a few bucks, you can pick up some of these little washers and they just slide on to the back; and, they don’t make it any longer. They don’t take up any of the threading because that little slot just slides over the blades and makes it a 125-grain. So, you have the same basic broadhead in 100 grains or 125 grains. Now, it does add a little bit of a lip that’s going to have a little bit of resistance to some mediums as it impacts, but not very much. So, it’s nice that you have some modularity there between 100 and 125-grain.

The Exact Archery broadhead is all steel. The ferrule, and the blades are both stainless steel. Each of the blades are 0.040″ thick, so these are some of the thicker blades on the market for a replaceable blade broadhead.

You’ll notice that there’s no tip other than this blade. It’s a true cut on contact tip.

Notice that it has an an extremely short overall profile.

For the flight forgiveness test, shot 1 field point and then 1 broadhead at a distance of 40 yards. It had excellent flight!  

It took 200 grams of force to cut through the wire. That’s a 10 on a 10-point scale!

When shot into the ballistic gel fronted by a 2/3″ rubber mat and 1/2 MDF, It penetrated 9 inches (MDF and rubber mat not shown in this pic, but it was 9 total inches).

It took an extra 75 grams of force to cut through the wire, which is an 8.5 on a 10-point scale.

The Exact archery head penetrated through 64 layers of cardboard.

It had no problem in the angled shot test.

It was in excellent condition after going through the MDF three times.

Check out these holes in the steel plate (left). Man, these are really nice holes. They are like square chunks. If you compare it to these other holes that were made by a broadhead I tested right before this (right side), you can really see the difference (both are 4-blade heads). But man, what a difference in the wound channel it opens up. And the head is in just fantastic shape. There’s a little tiny chip that was taken off the very tip. You can’t even make it out on this picture. But that was just really minor, and otherwise, the head stayed in excellent shape.

So here is the Exact Archery broadhead after all the durability tests. I did not expect it to hold together as well as it did (through the MDF 3 times, the steel plate 2 times, and then into the concrete). Man, it stuck so deeply into the concrete!

As for durability, after the concrete test, it had a slight bit of wobble to it. And, the tip got a little bit dinged up in the concrete, but it showed really impressive durability for this type of design.

The Exact Archery broadhead scored 10 out of 10 golden arrows… wow!