I loved SEVR’s Titanium 2.1. I sent the broadhead through multiple deer — including my largest buck to date — as well as a few pronghorn. The broadhead flew like a dart and left devastating entry and exit wounds.
Was I a little surprised when the news came that SEVR was pulling the Titanium 2.1 from its line? Absolutely. I wasn’t, however, worried in the slightest. Why? Simple. The minds at SEVR eat, sleep and drink broadhead design. If these mechanical masterminds thought they could build something better — improve upon an already proven product design — I was all in.
For 2020, SEVR’s Titanium 2.1 has become the Titanium 2.0. Why the .01-inch reduction in cutting diameter? To give the new Ti 2.0 a more swept-back blade angle and fit the head with a newly designed deployment arm. SEVR’s hope, with the more swept-back blade angle, was increased penetration. SEVR tests showed the Ti 2.0 provided up to 15% more penetration than its predecessor.
Like the 2.1, the 2.0 features a machined one-piece titanium ferrule and the same bone-busting precision-ground tip. In addition, the 2.0, like the 2.1 and all SEVR heads, is fitted with SEVR’s patented Lock-and-Pivot blades, which allow the broadhead to maneuver around bone and keep the arrow on a straight-through path.
Yes, Practice Mode is included with the 2.0, and this is one feature I hope SEVR never goes away from. Early in October of 2020, I sent a Ti 2.0 through an Oklahoma buck. The head entered behind the last rib and poked out the opposite shoulder. For the sake of passing along intel, I’d noted in my journal that particular head had been shot 47 times in Practice Mode. The head performed perfectly, and the 420 Grade .032-inch thick stainless-steel blades, after being dug out of the shoulder, folded back into the ferrule.
Another hat-tipper of the Ti 2.0 and its forward-pivot geometry is that pre-mature blade deployment has been eliminated. Today’s vertical bows are fast, and fps-ratings on popular crossbow models are flat scary. The Ti 2.0 was designed to stay closed and fly true even under violent acceleration.
Pre-hunt testing showed there was zero difference in point-of-impact between the Ti 2.1 and Ti 2.0. I shot the duo head-to-head out to a distance of 80 yards. The average weight (three different heads tested) of the Ti 2.0 — weighted on a Hornady GS-1500 digital scale — was 101.1 grains. The average weight of the Ti 2.1 was 101.7 grains.
When it comes to the boosted 15% penetration, I will note the Ti 2.0 blew through ¾-inch plywood and buried deep into a block target. I shot the plywood head-on and at quartering angles. The increased penetration claim was also backed up by my Oklahoma buck. The head actually blew through the lower portion of the scapula and was sticking out the other side. This was after smashing through a rib and other vital organs.
Two question that have been raised by multiple bowhunters, especially those that favored a quiver full of Ti 2.1’s are: How is the blood trail? and How are the entrance and exit wounds?
Let’s address the blood trail first. It’s important to remember that taking a 2.1-inch cut broadhead and scaling it back to a flat 2.0-inch cut isn’t going to have a major effect on the amount of blood that spills from the cut. The Ti 2.0 still features SEVR’S Stretch Cut — a technology designed to stretch hide while cutting and create an entrance hole from which blood can flow.
My Easton Axis 5MM, because the point lodged in the offside shoulder, didn’t blow all the way through my Sooner State buck, but the blood trail was absolutely ridiculous. Blood was evident at the impact site and only got stronger with each step. The entrance wound was massive. I compared the entrance wound on this buck with pictures of other bucks taken with a Ti 2.1. I couldn’t tell the difference. I can’t speak to the exit, but the simple fact the Ti 2.0 was stabbing out the opposite shoulder told me all I needed to know. Like the 2.1, this head is as legit as they come and worthy of a place in your quiver.
I alluded to the point of durability earlier in the article but want to go back to it for a minute. I’m a stickler for broadhead strength. I’ve shot mechanicals that have snapped off at the base of the ferrule, and others that look like they’d been through a trash compactor after hitting nothing more than a rib bone. I want my broadhead to hold up. The Ti 2.0 does. The one-piece titanium build and more swept-back blade angle ensure this. Side of small nick in the right blade, this head was still in perfect working condition after being dug from the shoulder.
The fact that SEVR took the time to evaluate what they felt were some shortcomings of a head that had proven tried-and-true says something about the manufacturer. SEVR doesn’t rest on its laurels or settle for good enough. They push the envelope and have set the mechanical bar high with the introduction of the Ti 2.0.
