Better believe they'll hold up. Fred had different prototypes to try and wound up going back to the 125gr Bears for everything including polar bear if I remember right. I have a bunch too and have shot them at least 35 years.
DT, are those Bear screw-ins blue?

Nice, thanks again. I thought that they were pretty good heads, but like I said when I did a search on them I found a surprising number of people saying they were actually fairly weak heads. Go figure.

QuoteOriginally posted by beauhunter:
Nice, thanks again. I thought that they were pretty good heads, but like I said when I did a search on them I found a surprising number of people saying they were actually fairly weak heads. Go figure.

No doubt there's stronger ones.One look at the tip on a Zwickey will tell you that.Three layers of steel vs one.But like someone said before,the Bear razorhead is to bowhuting what the 30-30win is the rifle hunting.  

There are lots of stronger heads......but generally the Razorhead is strong enough.

Back in 80 and 81, Bear was having problems with his new Stainless Razor heads. They were coming apart/not holding up well. Why Bear Archery never reintroduced the Original Razorhead still amazes me. There is still quite a following out there for those heads.

Sweet, I think that I will put a tanto tip on them and get 'em razor sharp. Hopefully I can get them to tune out of the Pronghorn Herb is building me.

I pulled a top notch Mt. Goat tag in AK for this fall. Hoping to put some meat on the ground with my first custom bow.

One reason Bear kind of never went back to the glue on head was bacause of aluminum arrows.
Screw in heads were getting more popular as time went on.It was way easier to just screw a broadhead into an aluminum arrow then to aline a glue on head onto wood.bd

They do make the short broadhead adapters which work with the original Razorhead. The adapter fit just shy of the slot needed to install the insert.
I have plenty of the short adapters here and they work fine.

I like them because they are so easy to sharpen and fly great. I do sharpen the tip with a different angle. Killed a lot of game with them.

My Bear glue-ons weigh in around 117gr w/o bleeders. Sharpened a few times at least. They've been very reliable & easy to sharpen for at least 35 years or more. Shot completely through a hog including the offside leg bone w/o damage to the head at all.

The Bear Razorhead Machine (yes machine..Fred's invention) spit out a broadhead every five seconds.  So you may want to add to that 3 million number made.  

Conservatively speaking, that means Bear turned out 1,440,000 Razorheads each year...based on a forty hour week only..one shift.  So in three years time, they would have made over 4 million heads.  If you ever get the chance, watch the Bear Video "Rural Route 1, Grayling, Michigan."
It shows the machine in motion...very amazing.  Fred was quite a designer/inventor as well as a bowyer.

I would agree with George that Bear made way more than 3 or 4 million... the head was in production from 1956/57 thru the early 80's.  So the number was probalby closer to 30 million...