Day Six Verse

[doverpack12]

I’ll say I’m less than impressed with out of the box sharpness. I usually test by stretching a small diameter rubber band between my fingers then slide that along the blade. It should cut and pop nearly instantly when you start to slide it. Super dull and rough the band will twist and roll. On the Verse the band can slide the entire or nearly entire blade length before it breaks. I stropped the expandable blades a few times and got the band breaking within 1/8” movement along the blade.
You shouldn’t have to sharpen a premium highly hyped head out of the box.

I had to try a few arrows to get them spinning. Each head took 2-3 arrows before I found the right one. These were perfect spinning arrows with field points.

I like the heads overall and believe you get more cut than advertised by a little.

I watched the Lusk review and was surprised at his sharpness test numbers. I checked some more of my heads. They are a bit inconsistent, the grind angle is very nice but there is a burr on all edges. That burr is leading to the inconsistency. I can feel a burr strop that edge first 2-3 times then alternate edges for a few more strokes and then I can barely touch the rubber band to the edge before it snaps. That is a huge change from sliding the band down the full blade edge. Call it 6-7 strop strokes and they are very very sharp.

Little annoying to have to do that but it is easy to fix.

 

[doverpack12]

Mechanicals are cool until they aren’t when they fail to open .

Better flight and this head still has a larger cut non deployed than the new IW SLR