Best Fixed-Blade Broadheads 2026 Ranked by the Gear IQ Method

Price $51.99 / 3-pack ($17.33 each) | Blades 4 — .059" main, .040" bleeder | Cut 1 5/16" × 1 1/4" (100gr) | Grains 100 / 125 / 150 | Construction replaceable and resharpenable | Made USA | Guarantee Lifetime replacement

A .059-inch main blade is nearly twice the category standard, and it arrives on a seventeen-dollar head from a small American manufacturer with a policy most brands wouldn't dare print: if you ever break one, they replace it. Not a defect warranty. A replacement, for a broadhead, forever, and it's a Magnus policy, not a Black Hornet feature.

• .059" mains and .040" bleeders. Nothing else near this price is built this heavy.
• A lifetime replacement guarantee stated across the brand, which in a category built on consumables changes the real cost of ownership.
• Replaceable and resharpenable, with replacement blades at $17.99 — a fifth of what Iron Will charges.
• 100% American made, stated on the product page and site-wide.
• Serrated main blades — that's the "Ser-Razor," a real design difference from the plain Black Hornet, and worth knowing which you're ordering.

• Four fixed blades demand a tuned bow. The most surface area here means the most steering if your arrows aren't leaving straight.
• Magnus doesn't publish the ferrule material, a real gap on an otherwise detailed page.
• No crossbow rating published. We won't infer one.
• Magnus runs two website URL schemes at once, and some product links fail depending on which you land on. Not a problem with the head; a problem with buying confidently.
• Less forum history than Muzzy or Slick Trick, which caps the sentiment pillar despite nothing being wrong.

Price $139.95–$154.95 / 3-pack ($46.65+ each) | Blades .062" A2 tool steel, cryo-treated to 60 HRC | Cut 1 1/16" main + 3/4" bleeder | Grains 100–200 | Ferrule Grade-5 titanium or 17-4 stainless | Replacements $44.95 main / $24.95 bleeder | Made USA

The best-manufactured broadhead you can buy. A2 tool steel cryogenically treated to 60 HRC — a knife-grade hardness figure nothing else here even publishes — .062" blades, a grade-5 titanium ferrule, CNC machined and assembled in Colorado. It is second on this page for exactly one reason, and it's the price.

• 60 HRC A2 tool steel. Hardness is edge retention, and this is the only head here publishing a hardness figure at the top of the scale.
• .062" blades on a titanium ferrule — the structural-integrity argument, which is the least disputed part of the penetration research.
• Rebuildable, so the expensive ferrule is a one-time purchase.
• Owners defend it in specifics — steel, heat treatment, bone performance — instead of in branding.
• Weights to 200 grains if you're building a heavy arrow.

• $46.65 a head. A hunter on Rokslide put it plainly: he could see no reason to spend nearly $800 on the same number of heads Slick Trick sells for a fraction. On a 140-pound animal, that isn't an unfair point.
• $44.95 for replacement main blades — nearly the price of a whole Slick Trick four-pack, for blades.
• We could not find a functional difference between the S-Series and the V-Series. Iron Will's own pages show identical published specs for both: same 1 1/16" main and 3/4" bleeder, same .062" A2 at 60 HRC, same tanto tip, same ferrule options, same price band. Their comparison chart is a Google Doc that wouldn't render. If there's a real distinction, Iron Will isn't publishing it where a buyer can read it.
• No crossbow rating on the V-Series. Iron Will sells a separate X-Series for crossbows — buy that, don't assume.
• The naming sprawls — S, V, Wide, X, single and double bevel — with differences that aren't obvious from outside.

Price $49.99 / 4-pack ($12.50 each) | Blades 4 — .035" steel (.030" on the 85gr) | Cut 1" + 1" = 2" total | Grains 85 / 100 / 125 | Ferrule "Super Steel" | Crossbow separate SKUs

Twelve dollars and fifty cents a head, in a four-pack, not the usual three, from a head hunters describe using continuously since 2008 across multiple continents without a failure. The short, stubby profile looks unfashionable and flies beautifully, which is the entire point.

• $12.50 per head, the cheapest here, in a category where you lose heads in dirt and tree trunks.
• A four-pack. Three heads means one to practice with and two to hunt; four is a real quiver.
• A short ferrule and a compact blade stack that flies close to a field point for a fixed head — the reason people who switch don't switch back.
• Multi-season, multi-continent reports with no failures, from hunters naming the model and the year they started.
• The Magnum is the same head, wider — $49.99 for four, 1 1/8" per edge and 2 1/4" of total cut, if you want more hole for the same money.

• .035" blades, barely half the Magnus above. Fine for ribs, unremarkable on a shoulder.
• Slick Trick states no country of manufacture anywhere on their site. Not a denial — just silence, in a category where most American makers say so loudly.
• Replacement blades aren't priced on the Standard's page (the Magnum's run $34.99 for four).
• The lineup has ballooned — Standard, Magnum, Torch, SS3, ViperTrick, GrizzTrick 2, SB, Revival, WickedTrick, Assailant. Buying the plain Standard takes deliberate effort.
• Two grain weights showed unavailable during this research.

Price $109.00 / 3-pack ($36.33 each) | Steel MagnaCut | Cut main blade 1 3/16" long × 1 1/16" wide | Grains 100 / 125 / 150 | Ferrule hardened stainless or titanium | Replacements $65.00 | Made USA

The steel is the product. MagnaCut is a modern powder-metallurgy alloy developed for knifemakers, and it solves the old trade-off between toughness, corrosion resistance and hardness instead of picking two. Day Six put it on a broadhead, made it in America, and priced it between the mainstream and Iron Will.

• MagnaCut, a genuine materials advantage, not a marketing alloy — the steel knife people ask for by name.
• Made in the USA, stated on every product page.
• Stainless or titanium ferrule, so you can tune total weight without changing heads.
• A real range: the EVO X goes to 1 1/4" wide in 125–175gr, and the EVO XL runs 200–250gr.
• Rebuildable instead of disposable.

• $36.33 a head and $65 for replacement blades — more than a Slick Trick four-pack, for blades.
• Day Six doesn't publish blade count or thickness on the EVO pages. For a brand whose pitch is metallurgy, that's a strange omission.
• The XL is a different steel. EVO and EVO X are MagnaCut; the 200–250gr EVO XL is S35VN. Both good, not the same — read the page.
• One price shown across the 3- and 6-pack selector, which we couldn't resolve. Confirm before checkout.
• Much less multi-season history than the older names here. A newer brand, not a known problem.

Price $44.99 / 3-pack ($15.00 each) | Blades 3 — .035" stainless, right-helical | Cut 1 3/16" | Grains 100 only | Ferrule solid stainless steel | Stock showing sold out at the time of writing

The default American deer broadhead for two decades — the head hunters name when they say "I've used the same one since 2004 and never had a failure." A solid stainless ferrule, a hardened trocar tip, three .035" blades set with right helical, fifteen dollars.

• The deepest track record on this page. Twenty-plus years, multiple species and bow types, no failures reported.
• A solid steel ferrule, not aluminum — the part that bends on cheaper heads.
• Right-helical blades that stabilize the arrow, not fight it, which is why a three-blade this size flies as well as it does.
• $15 a head from a brand stocked in every rural sporting goods store in the country.
• 1 3/16" of cut, comfortably over every state minimum we verified.

• Showing sold out on Feradyne's own site. The page is live and it's in the current Muzzy catalog, so this is stock instead of discontinuation, but you may not be able to buy one today.
• 100 grain only. Building a heavier arrow? This head doesn't participate.
• Feradyne publishes no country of manufacture and no crossbow statement.
• Replacement blades exist but aren't priced, a recurring pattern with this brand's listings.
• .035" blades, the category floor, on a head whose whole reputation is toughness.

Price $51.99 / 3-pack ($17.33 each) | Blades 2 or 4, serrated | Head size 2 1/8" × 1 1/16" (100gr) | Grains 85 / 100 / 125 / 150 | Replacements $17.99 / 3-pack | Made USA | Guarantee Lifetime

The other Magnus, and the one traditional and heavy-arrow shooters reach for. Serrated cut-on-contact blades in weights up to 150 grains, the same American manufacture and the same lifetime guarantee as the Black Hornet, in a longer, narrower profile built to penetrate, not to open.

• The same lifetime replacement guarantee — it's a Magnus policy, not a Black Hornet feature.
• 85 to 150 grains, the widest weight range here outside VPA. The head to reach for if you're building forward-of-center.
• Serrated blades, which is the Buzzcut difference — a cutting edge that keeps working where a smooth edge would skate.
• $17.99 for three sets of replacement blades, the cheapest rebuild cost on this page.
• Made in America, stated on the page and site-wide.
• Cut-on-contact, so it starts cutting at the tip instead of punching.

• Magnus publishes no blade thickness and no ferrule material for this head. We checked the page text directly — it isn't a fetch failure, it's a gap. On a head whose sibling advertises .059" blades, that silence costs it real points.
• The dimensions Magnus gives are overall head size, not an isolated cutting diameter — confirm against your state's minimum-width rule, not assuming.
• Narrower than the Black Hornet at the same price, which is a deliberate penetration trade and not everyone's preference.
• No crossbow statement.
• 2-blade and 4-blade at the same price with no guidance on which to buy.

Price $89.99 / 3-pack ($30.00 each) | Blades 2, single-piece — .060" tapering to .038" | Cut 1", with an effective wound path over 2" | Grains 100 | Bevel single, with a CrossCut bleeder | Made Idaho | Warranty Lifetime against defects

A single piece of hardened steel with a blade that starts at .060 inches and tapers to .038 — thick where it takes the impact, thin where it cuts. Made in Idaho, resharpenable, guaranteed for life, and explicitly stated by the brand as compatible with both compounds and crossbows, which most heads on this page won't commit to.

• A tapered blade — .060" at the base, .038" at the edge. That's a design solving the thickness-versus-cutting trade instead of picking a side.
• One piece. No blade lock, no screw, no joint, nothing to loosen.
• Built to be resharpened and reused "season after season," in Annihilator's own words, backed by a lifetime defect warranty.
• Explicitly compatible with bows and crossbows — a rare clear statement in this category.
• Made in Idaho, stated on the page.

• $30 a head for a 1" cut, which is the narrowest actual cutting diameter on this page. The "over 2 inches of effective wound path" is the brand's claim about the CrossCut bleeder geometry, not a cutting diameter — treat those as different numbers.
• 1" of cut clears every state minimum we verified, but only just. Check your own.
• 100 grain only on the Katana.
• "Proprietary steel" with no alloy or hardness published — for $30 a head, we'd like a number.
• You have to sharpen it, and most hunters won't.

Price $71.50–$77.00 / 3-pack ($23.83–$25.67 each) | Construction one-piece, no replaceable blades | Cut 1 1/8" or 1 1/4" | Grains 100 to 300 | Steel CNC high-carbon, 50–52 HRC | Made Fort Wayne, Indiana

One piece of high-carbon steel, machined in Indiana, with nothing to replace because there's nothing to come apart. This is the traditional-archery answer, and it appeals for good reasons — chief among them that the failure modes dominating this category simply don't exist on it.

• One piece of steel. No blades to lose, no ferrule joint, no screws, no O-rings.
• 100 all the way to 300 grains, the widest range here by a distance — the head for a heavy front-of-center build.
• Resharpenable indefinitely, which changes the real cost of a $24 head.
• Made in Fort Wayne, Indiana, stated plainly.
• Both bevels offered without switching brands.

• 50–52 HRC is meaningfully softer than Iron Will's 60. Easier to sharpen, quicker to dull — a real trade.
• You have to sharpen it, and a dull broadhead is worse than a cheap one.
• $23.83 a head for a head with no replaceable parts.
• The model names in the wild are wrong. "Terminator" and "Penetrator" appear constantly on forums and do not exist in VPA's catalog. Order by the real name.
• No crossbow statement published.

Price $52.75–$56.75 / 3-pack with case ($17.58+ each) | Blade single, .050" 420 stainless at 50 Rc | Cut 1.38" wide × 1.60" long (150gr) | Grains 100 / 125 / 150 | Ferrule 416 stainless | Bevel single, variable pitch | Made USA, USA-sourced materials

A single-bevel single-blade head, entirely manufactured in the USA from American materials, with a lifetime materials-and-workmanship guarantee, and the widest cutting width on this page at 1.38 inches, from a design most people assume is narrow.

• 1.38" of cutting width, the widest single measurement here, in a profile that penetrates like a narrow head.
• "Manufactured entirely in USA with USA sourced materials" — the most specific origin claim on this page.
• .050" 420 stainless at 50 Rc on a 416 stainless ferrule, with both materials published, which half this category won't do.
• A lifetime materials and workmanship guarantee.
• The Contour+ adds a replaceable 17-4 stainless cross-bleeder for about seven dollars more a head.

• Single bevel, and that's the only option. For whitetail specifically, the engineering opinion runs the other way — double bevel has a slight penetration edge on animals this size.
• 50 Rc is at the soft end, same as VPA. Sharpens easily, dulls sooner.
• A single main blade means one wound plane unless you buy the Contour+ with the bleeder.
• No crossbow statement published.
• A small brand with correspondingly thin multi-season forum history.

Price $56.95 / 3-pack ($18.98 each) | Construction one-piece MIM steel, 3-blade | Cut 1 1/16" | Grains 100 / 125 | Blades not replaceable — resharpenable | Crossbow dedicated high-speed SKU

The Montec has been the accessible one-piece head for twenty years, and the M3 is the current generation — sold alongside the original Montec at $46.95 and the Montec CS at $51.95. Three generations, live at once, at three prices. That's a buying hazard more than a product problem.

• One piece, cut on contact, with nothing to come apart on impact.
• Resharpenable, and easier than a two-blade because there are three shorter edges.
• A dedicated high-speed crossbow SKU, which most heads on this page don't offer.
• Everywhere, after twenty years — availability is a real feature the night before opening day.
• $18.98 a head for a solid one-piece design.

• Three generations sold simultaneously. G5 calls the M3 "the next generation" while continuing to sell the Montec and Montec CS, and the CS is currently showing sold out. Read the box.
• MIM construction is cost-driven, and the Montec's long-running reputation is arriving less sharp than it should. Plan on sharpening it before you hunt.
• Not replaceable. Damage a blade and the head is scrap.
• G5 publishes no blade thickness, no country of manufacture and no warranty on the product page.
• 1 1/16" from a three-blade — legal everywhere we checked, but modest.