Fixed Blade vs. Mecanical Video Clip
10-15-2006, 04:32 PM
#24
Typical Buck
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Norwalk, CT
Posts: 599
RE: Fixed Blade vs. Mecanical Video Clip
Just aint a real world test. I use & like grim reapers but in my experience they dont zip thru like a fixed blade head. Often the exit isn't where you'd think because things happen as they open. I havent used many mechs but in my limited testing on live deer Tekans come closest to fixed blade performance. I have one reaper left in my quiver & a bunch of Tekans to go thru before I need more. These heads open on newspaper, no other mech I played with comes close to opening that easy.
10-15-2006, 04:49 PM
#25
Dominant Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Blossvale, New York
Posts: 21,199
RE: Fixed Blade vs. Mecanical Video Clip
This is NOT a scientific study.... it's a smoke and mirrors infomercial made by Grim Reaper. If as they suggest, mechanicals out penetrate, we wouldn't have all these videos with poor penetration lately where everyone is shooting mechanicals. I always thought Wade Nolan was a little bit the Jackass, and now I know it for sure. Nothing but an advertisement. This proves that ballistic gellitin is NOT muscle, bone and lung tissue, that's all. Have old wade try the same thing on an elk.
10-15-2006, 07:00 PM
#27
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Woodsboro Md USA
Posts: 176
RE: Fixed Blade vs. Mecanical Video Clip
i use the tekan 11 because i think its the closit to a fix head that flies well with my carbon arrows !!!!!! ive shot a buck last year in the spine and it did a great job on a not so great shot!!!!!!!!then this year i got a doe and got her though the bottom of the lungs and the heart great blood trail.!!!!!but i think next year i mite switch back to my alliumom arrows that shoot fixed heads great!!!!!!!!!
10-15-2006, 07:07 PM
#28
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Michigan/Ohio
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RE: Fixed Blade vs. Mecanical Video Clip
ORIGINAL: HNIJustin
Not just that, but look at the surface area of the two heads. The fixed blade appears to be some huge cut on contact head like a Steelforce or something. The Grim Reaper has much thinner blades with much less surface area, and therefore less drag.
Not saying the test is TOTALLY inaccurate, but there's a lot more to it than meets the eye.
Not just that, but look at the surface area of the two heads. The fixed blade appears to be some huge cut on contact head like a Steelforce or something. The Grim Reaper has much thinner blades with much less surface area, and therefore less drag.
Not saying the test is TOTALLY inaccurate, but there's a lot more to it than meets the eye.
10-16-2006, 10:01 AM
#29
Nontypical Buck
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Southeast, VA
Posts: 2,119
RE: Fixed Blade vs. Mecanical Video Clip
Definitely an ad for Grim Reapers but Ijust thought it was pretty interesting. I wish some neutral party could perform a similiar test with multiple different broadheads and perhaps something in the gelatin to simulate bone. They did state that there wasinner tube rubber around the gelatin to simulate skin, but thatmakes me think theyjust wanted to ensure uniform opening of the mechanical blades.