Watch 'Em Drop x 4!

My name is Aaron Barton and I recently ordered 2 packs of the Grim Reaper EXTRAs in the 1 3/4" cutting diameter for the upcoming turkey season. I decided to give the Grim Reapers a go because of the technology, simplicity, accuracy and durability in which they are designed. After receiving the heads the first thing I did was go and shoot them at known distances to check for same point of impact as my field tips and they were spot on at all yardages! While shooting these heads I noticed something that was probably the best feature of all--the clean opening and penetration of these blades. When I first watched your Mythbusters DVD, I was a little thrown back by how a mechanical could out-penetrate a 2-blade broadhead. When I shot the Reapers, I could instantly hear the blades opening unbelievably fast and clean, while penetrating beyond what my cut-on-contacts were penetrating.

For years I have been hunting turkeys with standard cut-on-contact/replaceable blade broadheads with success. However, in my years of using these types of heads for turkey hunting I have noticed that a 'LARGE' majority of the birds would run off and die with some form of tracking or would run off a substantial ways within sight. On opening morining, I had a longbeard charge into my set-up and try to display his dominance over my strutting Jake decoy, with the turkey facing me I put the pin just below his beard and let the arrow with the Reaper attached go and the bird fell breast first, flapped his wings once, and expired in no more than 5 seconds. The bird weighed in at 22.5 pounds, 1 inch spurs, and had a 10 inch beard.

Three days later, I had the blessed opportunity to take two huge gobblers off the ground without a blind both at 15 yards. After watching these birds in the field with hens, I knew that the odds were to be stacked against me worse than the Texas Lottery. I watched from the edge of the field about 300 yards away as they strutted for the hens. As they had their fantails up I belly-crawled out to the edge to at least put out a hen decoy for a visual. Not long after, the hens pitched over the fence and disappeared into the cover. It was panic mode for the pair, as I saw them sticking their heads up trying to see where their girlfriends were. As soon as I saw that, I gave them some yelps they turned and started my way. I thought to myself, 'Are you freaking kidding...it hardly ever works out this way!?!!?' It seems like it took 3 hours for them to cover that green field, but when they came in to about 25 yards I drew and the only shot I had at the first bird was a head shot because of a low hanging branch, when I released the arrow the Reaper hit him just below the head severing his windpipe, dropping him on the spot. The Strutter stayed around to 'finish him' and I was able to come to full draw again and the Reaper hit him above his hips penetrating through his entrails . He took two steps and started in flight with the arrow in him. I watched him literally die in flight, he flew about 50 yards and toppled in the air like I had folded up a duck waterfowl hunting...that was awesome to watch. The first bird weighed in at 19.4 pounds with 1 inch spurs, and a 10 3/4 inch beard, and the Strutter weighed in at 21.6 pounds, had 1 1/8" spurs and a 11 1/4 inch rope! After close inspection of my arrow that hit the first bird I noticed that there was only blood on the razortip, one of the blades, and one of the vanes. I came to the conclusion that the razortip penetrated and the blade that was closest to the turkeys neck had opened immediately cutting his neck halfway through. That is a true testament to how effortless and quick the Grim Reapers open up and function. All three broadheads were not damaged and retained their sharpness!! Here are pictures of the birds I took this year that have wholeheartedly changed the way I not only look at mechanicals but the broadhead spectrum as a whole!! Grim Reaper....The true defintion of Watch em' drop!!

I thought I was a die-hard traditional broadhead guy...not anymore...I will continue to pass the word and the results of what your heads have done and will continue to do for me.

(Later . . .) Aaron from TX here again. Here is the last Rio I shot a little over a week ago with the same heads. Again, turkey went about 5-8 yards and expired. I absolutely love how fast these heads open! If they do this good on turkeys, I cannot wait to give them a try on deer, hogs, anything that is legal!!

Aaron Barton

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