Top notch penetration by a Grizzly

[Warchild]

I have been hunting with the Grizzly 160 grain single bevel head for the first time ever this season. I have never tried a single bevel of any sort before. I must say that I am super impressed with it. The head is super easy to sharpen and flies as well as a field point. This is the best flying broadhead that I have ever shot.....by far. Now for the "meat" of the post (pun intended). Recently my hunting partner and I spent the week in the Upper Peninsula deer hunting. On Oct 25th, within an hour of each other, we both shot nice mature Does. This was the very first animal that I have ever shot with the Grizzly and I am lucky that I was shooting them because as is sometimes the case, I pulled my shot left and this caused a forward hit on the Doe. Thank god she was moving from my right to left as the opposite direction would have caused a gut shot & nightmare. I hit her a little forward and the head crashed through her left shoulder blade, ribs on both sides and the far shoulder right where it drops into the leg. This is exactly where you do not want to hit a deer. The Grizzly traveled through as much bone as you can possibly hit on a whitetails body and still penetrated 10" beyond the leg/shoulder bone. I was shooting a 535 grain douglas fir arrow tipped with the 160 grn Grizzly out of my 51# Schafer recurve and I am sure that this arrow & head combo saved me on this shot. The deer ran less than 40 yards as the wind pipe was severed on the way through, and piled up. I dont know much about the company that has bought and improved this classic head but I would urge every hunter that is interested in keeping our American vendors that put out a fine product going to buy a set of these heads and try them out. There is not a single negative issue with this broadhead, it was still sharp after crashing through all of that meat and bone.......impressed as hell!

[Zradix]

Good deal war child.
I've used the el grande before and found it to be a very good head as well.

It certainly seems the trade off of not having a larger cut diameter or more blades paid off for you big time.

Hope you get to test it out again soon.
 

[Bob B.]

Wow,sounds awesome! My. Buddy shoots that same head and like you, he has some incredible stories to tell as well.  Good on ya man, congratulations!

Bob.

[hedgerowhuntr]

I had the same thing happen (or lack there of) to a friend over the weekend. However, he was using a mechanical broadhead (wheelie bow), the arrow hit the shoulder and the broadhead snapped off right at the upper half of the insert and he got a grand total of 1" of blood on the shaft itself. Barely any blood was found and we're thinking the deer will live to see another day.

I tried to explain to him the benefits of a 2 blade cut on contact broadhead, he looked at me like I had 2 heads  

[KentuckyTJ]

I switched to them last season and shot two deer then and three so far this year with my Grizzly's. I am sharpening  impaired and I can get these heads crazy sharp with ease. I also like the increased penetration. Fantastic broadheads no doubt.

The two deer I shot with them last year was with the same head and the three this year was with the same as well. With the new improvements and the low cost compared to others in this category the choice to use them for me is a no brainer.

[TxAg]

Sounds good.  Looking forward to getti mine bloody soon.

[RIng]

Hi In year's past I shot 70-80+ lb. bows and 800-1000 gr. tapered hard wood shafts with the big  grizzley and took out both front shoulders of a number of deer . I am shooting  +/- 50# with  tapered 5/16 ash at 500gr.with 125gr grizzly now and have not put one into a deer yet .

[Benjy]

Originally posted by KentuckyTJ:
With the new improvements and the low cost compared to others in this category the choice to use them for me is a no brainer.

Exactly!!!!!

[59Alaskan]

yeah...I am going to try the 3 blade model Bill's working on when it comes out.  Good stuff.

Congratulations on the doe!

[stalkin4elk]

Excellent performance especially from modest arrow weight. Great company/people as well.

[2treks]

Great write up Warchild.
I pushed 30+ inches of shaft thru a doe earlier this season my self, shooting the 185 Grizzly out of a 49# bow.
Bill Dunn has done a fine job with them heads and My field report echos yours.
Congrats on the harvest.

[jackdaw]

yup....great broadheads..

[zipper bowss]

That is about as good of a testimony as anyone could give. Thank you sir. It sure put a smile on my face.  Did you happen to keep the busted bones?  
Bill