Grim Reaper Broadhead issues

[IowaHunter25]

Has anyone else ever had issues with grim reaper broadheads? This is the 2nd deer I've shot where it hasn't deployed. Both deer died but neither time were the blades deployed. This time one is bent to the side but thats it.

 

[HairyScandinavian]

Seems almost impossible for the blades on a Reaper to not deploy. Which model do you have?

 

[huntnful]

They’re deploying. It’s almost impossible for them not to. You’re probably just finding them with the blades closed, from either hitting the dirt behind the animal or the fletching grabbing the hide on the way out causing the sudden halt to slap them closed.

Pull a lung out and see what the cut looks like going through.

 

[IowaHunter25]

Seems almost impossible for the blades on a Reaper to not deploy. Which model do you have?

Whitetail special 100gr

 

[powds]

I would bet they are deploying, even without pulling them out backwards they will appear closed inside the wound Channel if the arrow stops abruptly. The blades kind of shoot back forwards. Like others said, check the wound channel.

 

[Live_weighT34]

How big were the holes in the deer?

After almost 6 years behind the counter of a pro shop one of the most common broadhead complaints I heard was grim reaper blades not deploying usually followed up with that they had recovered the animal which died quickly yet some how there was a 2” hole (or holes) in it.

 

[HairyScandinavian]

Whitetail special 100gr

Interesting. What did the wound channels look like? Should be pretty obvious if that big bastard opens up.

 

[kpk]

I've shot piles of deer with them without issue.

It seems extemely unlikely they wouldn't be opening. Even by your own observation, it seems unlikely that a blade would get bent sideways - unless it was open.

 

[bowhuntercoop]

I’ve killed over 60 with the boring original 1 3/8 and the pro series 1 3/8 ever since they came out. 26 inch draw, 400 grain arrow and never had one issue out of them. They are my all time favorite mechanical. Wicked blood trials but normally it’s just like the slogan, I watch em drop from the stand.

Almost ever single time after a pass through the blades are closed, yet their is an awesome entry and exit hole…