Day Six Verse Broadhead Review | Range Testing the 125-Grain Hybrid
Good flight, a broken blade, and a conversation with Day Six made this range session more than a simple accuracy test.
By: Justin Campbell | Equalized Outdoors Newsrom | Oct 2, 2026
I finally got the Day Six Verse broadhead out to the range, and the test didn’t go quite the way I expected.
The plan was straightforward: shoot the practice head, the actual broadhead, and a field point at 20 yards, then stretch things out a little farther. I wanted to see how they grouped and what blade deployment looked like in a foam target.
What I ended up with was good flight, a broken blade, and a follow-up conversation with Day Six about what might have happened.
What Is the Day Six Verse Broadhead?
The Verse is a hybrid mechanical broadhead that combines a fixed cutting blade with mechanical blades that open on impact. Day Six lists a 5/8-inch fixed blade and a 1 3/8-inch mechanical cutting width, with .050-inch-thick MagnaCut steel blades.
It comes in two weights. The 100-grain version uses a titanium ferrule, while the 125-grain version—the one I tested—uses hardened stainless steel. A retention O-ring holds the mechanical blades in their closed position.
The three-pack was $109 before shipping at the time of this test. My package also included a practice head, which I used alongside the actual Verse and a field point during the session.
That’s premium money for broadheads, and naturally, I wanted to see how they performed.
Flight and Grouping at 20 Yards
I started with the practice head, followed by the 125-grain Verse, then a field point aimed at the same spot.
The flight looked good, and the heads grouped together well enough that I was pleased with what I was seeing. I was shooting Day Six XR 250-spine arrows during this test. One shot registered 291 feet per second through the chronograph.
I’ve also used Day Six HD 275-spine arrows and Evo X broadheads, so this wasn’t my first experience with the company’s products. The Verse’s flight was consistent with the good results I’ve come to expect from my Day Six equipment.
Then I walked up to the target.
A Broken Blade in the Foam Target
One of the blades had broken after the broadhead was shot into the foam target.
That’s absolutely not what you want to see when you’re paying premium money for a product. It also wasn’t something I was going to leave out of the video.
What I couldn’t tell you was why it happened. The broadhead that broke had been shot previously. I didn’t know whether it had struck something buried inside the target or whether something else had caused the damage.
I paused the test and reached out to Bryan at Day Six. Before ending that part of the session, I also shot another Verse that was brand new out of the box.
That head stayed on target, its blades deployed, and I found no damage afterward. It lost its retention band during the shot, and I replaced the band before continuing.
The second head’s result was encouraging, but it didn’t explain what had happened to the first.
Stretching Out the Practice Head
I moved back to roughly 35 yards and continued comparing the practice head with a field point. With the cause of the broken blade still unclear, I chose not to keep shooting the actual Verse at the longer distance.
Some of those shots weren’t my best. I called a shot that went right and another that went high as mistakes in my own execution. Those misses belong to me.
During that portion of the session, I also noticed a crossbow bolt lodged in a target. That gave me another reason to consider debris as a possibility, but it didn’t establish what the broken broadhead had struck.
The longer-distance shooting was a practice-head comparison. It wasn’t a completed test of the actual Verse at that distance.
What Day Six Told Me
After speaking with Bryan, I had more information about the retention system and a commitment from Day Six to send replacement blades.
According to the explanation he gave me, the original black O-ring could weaken and allow the blades to snap forward and contact the ferrule. He also explained how the O-ring moving back and the blades moving as the arrow stopped could affect what I saw when inspecting the head after a shot.
I initially thought the first head hadn’t expanded. After that conversation, I understood that its position afterward wasn’t enough for me to conclude that it had failed to deploy.
I replaced the original black band with a white one that Bryan described as stronger. Whether the broken blade resulted from something inside the target or the retention-ring behavior we discussed remained unconfirmed.
Day Six said they would take care of the replacement blades, and that response mattered to me.
Why I’m Still Going to Shoot the Day Six Verse Broadhead
Day Six has done far more good by me than harm. That history doesn’t erase the broken blade, but it does factor into how I view the experience.
The Verse flew well in this session, the second head deployed without damage, and the company responded when I brought the problem to them. I’m still going to shoot it.
This was a range test into foam. I haven’t established how the Verse performs on an animal through this session, and I still have more work to do before calling it fully dialed in.
This review wasn’t paid for, and it wasn’t an advertisement. I like the company and its products, but full disclosure means showing what happened—even when the test takes a turn I wasn’t expecting.
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