A buudy of mine was over here last week, and after I got his Hoyt tuned we did some playing around with the Grim Reaper Whitetail 2" inch cut and those things are nasty�at least on a milkjug filled water, a phone book and a bucket. One thing I learned is that the blades open up after they have penetrated past the point of entry. On the small yellow pages phone book, the blades started opening up after 20 pages and were fully deployed by the time it went through the back of the book�the book is about 1" thick.
The milkjug was shot about 1/3 of the way up from the bottom and it drained its contents in less than 5 seconds.
Yes, the blades to close as the broadhead comes to an abrupt stop. One way that you can tell that the blades did, or did not open, is to inspect where the broadhead sits on the insert....there will be tiny indentions/marks in the insert from where the blade edge squeezes down on the insert as it opens�that is how you can tell if it opened or not.
I'm not a fan of mechanicals, actually I hate the things, but these have my interest after what I witnessed the other day, and I can't wait for someone to post up some pics of what they do to a deer.
You Reaper Whitetail users, check your factory blades for sharpness, my friend's blades were very dull from the factory, like my butter knife is sharper kind of dull, and he called the manufacturer and they admitted that they had a bad batch of blades and they put some in the mail to him that day�hence the reason why we decided to shoot those to see what they do.
