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Shot my buck last year with a grim reaper and will never use them again. The head didn't open and barely left a blood trail. Luckily I still found the bruiser. I won't be leaving Muzzy again.

Congrats on the doe!

I've seen people say this on archerytalk before too. and the consensus was that it's impossible for a head designed like the reaper to not open. just look at the design. I think people don't realize that the heads will be closed once they pass through whatever target they hit and they assume that the head didn't open. if your head truly didn't open, i'm sure reaper would love to hear about it and see the pics of the entrance and exit wounds

 

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I agree 100%. I've found mine on the ground after a pass thru with extraordinary entrance and exit wounds.

yeah. I've used them for the past couple years and they open up insane entrance and exit wounds. the doe I shot last week went 40 yards and dropped. it looked like someone took a ladle and just sloshed and dumped blood everywhere. if a head ever truly didn't open, I bet the company would love to know about it

 

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I love all the responses about how awesome these heads are without acknowledging the head in 10 pieces in the beginning of this thread[confused].

Glad to see the company's customer service is making good but I wouldnt use those heads after that.......

1-this seems like a fluke thing based on everything I've ever seen and read about reapers. and 2-seems like the company takes their product seriously enough to replace something like this free of cost. I would also venture that most broadheads wouldn't blast through a shoulder without some sort of damage regardless. good luck getting any other company to send you free replacements after shooting a deer in the shoulder.

 

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I took the head to YOJ Sports in Sussex and was refunded for my purchase after showing them the entry and exit wounds on the animal along with the closed head. May have just been a fluke incident, but was enough for me to go back to Muzzy MX-3's. Loads of people love the grim reapers, just not for me. That's all!

yeah that's just weird. honestly, i'd sent pics to reaper and see what they say. that seems like a one in a million type of thing.

 

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Never had that happen to these... Tough as nails, accurate, and penetrate like nothing else I have ever tried. 100% solid one piece machine steel, no wields. A true COC 3-blade head, and the beauty is you sharpen yourself, very easily to get hair popping sharp.

If I had to use mechanicals, I always thought GR's were a reputable brand, certainly more durable than Rage, so this is troubling.

Congrats on your doe!

What are those and how big are they?

 

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VPAs- Absolutely love them, started using them in 2011 and will never look back. They are very popular out west to Midwest, you won't find them in NJ shops. They started making them for traditional only but several years ago started catering to compound users and the results have been quite impressive.

I shoot the 100 grain non-vented as well as vented. I practice with the same 5 heads I carry, just touch them up with a jewel stick and leather strop afterward and ready to hunt. I never "guess" how my BH will fly or if it will hit like my field point, I practice exactly how I hunt. They shatter bone, stick and the ground, and ready to hunt again. Most are in the very popular 1 1/8" size in 3 blade, and they make them well over 200 grains I believe. The vented are a little easier to broadhead tune, but the non-vented fly amazing as well, and are very quiet and are presumably better penetrating but I doubt it's noticeable. Hard to imagine a more economical head, I keep using the same one over and over again and have 8 others in the bull pen!

Here is a picture of the vented I use and also a pic of my "starting five".
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thanks. I kinda like them. the vented ones remind me of the G5 Montecs. I shoot those occasionally, and they fly perfectly. I've never shot a deer with one before because 1-they seem a little small in cutting diameter and 2-the reapers always do the trick. but I like that design a lot. i'm just getting in to shooting traditional, and once I figure everything out, I may end up using those VPAs . thanks again