Best Fixed Blade Broadheads

This is the buy-once head. Iron Will grinds the blades from .062 A2 tool steel, cryo-treats and triple-tempers them to 60 HRC, then hand-checks the edges. The tanto tip is patented and the lighter heads ride a Grade 5 titanium ferrule. At $140 a three-pack you're paying five times the Muzzy tax — but these resharpen and come back season after season.

Blade

0.062"

Price

$139.95

Ferrule

Titanium

Cut

1.06"

The Exodus has barely changed in a decade because it hasn't needed to. The trick is geometry: the head is so compact the 1.25-inch blades tuck inside the length of a field point, so it flies like one. Three .040 stainless blades wrap a hardened steel tip that's genuinely cut-on-contact. It's the fixed head people buy after a mechanical lets them down.

Blade

0.040"

Price

$44.99

Ferrule

Steel

Cut

1.25"

The Trocar is the working-class fixed blade: one-piece stainless ferrule, three .035 blades set on a right helix, and that famous bone-splitting Trocar tip. The helical blade layout spins the arrow like fletching does, which is why this short little head groups well at distance. Nothing exotic, nothing to deploy, nothing to fail.

Blade

0.035"

Price

$42.99

Ferrule

Steel

Cut

1.19"

Four blades, 1-1/8 inch each way, 2-1/4 inches of total cut from a head shorter than your thumbnail. The Magnum's party trick is that a four-blade this compact still flies like a field point from fast compounds. The Alcatraz bladelock holds the .035 Lutz blades in a steel ferrule, and the four-edge tip splits bone instead of skating off it.

Blade

0.035"

Ferrule

Steel

Cut

1.13"

Grains

2