Grizzly Broadheads?

[azarrow]

Looking for feedback on grizzly broadheads.  I have been thinking about using them.  Do they wind plane much?  Are they worth trying?

[Horne Shooter]

Lots of folks swear by them here.

[Benny Nganabbarru]

http://tradgang.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=056683

[Bjorn]

They don't windplane; they fly very well and are a fair bit of effort to sharpen. They are a very tough, good killing broadhead.

[Orion]

Read Dr. Ed Ashby's studies.  They're listed above.  Excellent head, particularly if you shoot right wing feathers.

[J-dog]

Seem to be the BH of choice here lately, I do not use them but am thinking seriously about it. SOrry I do not have no experience with them but if you do a search yu will turn up more info than you know what to do with on GRizzly heads.

J

[todd smith]

I used to use them when Harry Elburg was making them.  They were easy to sharpen, very strong, and flew like darts.  

My only complaint was the bloods trails were sometimes very marginal.  BUT, I was probably using left wing feathers with them.  That was offsetting  the rotation advantage I could have had from the single bevel.  I didn't get that "J" shaped exit wound that Dr. Ashby has documented in his report.

If you use right wing feathers with the Grizzly head you should do well.  The newer ones are more difficult to sharpen though.

I haven't tried the new Zwickey single bevel yet either.  It'll be interesting to see what that one does.

Get 'em sharp, mount 'em straight and you should be fine!

Good luck!

todd smith

[maxwell]

They are as tough as they come, fly great and if you work at it easy enough to get sharp.  

Bill

[loco_cacahuate]

I love them.

[Steve B.]

I love them too.  I went with the Ashby advice and went big FOC and the Grizzly's at the same time.  I get NO windplaning at all--they shoot like field points.  All my arrow-flight problems went away when I went heavy up front and carbon shafts.  I file the angle of the blades down a little and sharpen them like a knife, no big deal.

I killed two elk with them.  The first was a close quartering-toward-me shot.  The arrow hit right behind the front shoulder and passed diagonally through and out and hit the far rear leg.  The elk was dead in 10 minutes.  The broadhead was still sharp.  The second elk jumped the string and the arrow hit high in the ham.  I never found the arrow.  That elk, bleeding internally, went 80 yds.
And lets just say that I had to do some pest control with my bow on some pretty solid critters and was amazed how the arrows sailed through the animals.  Everything died quickly.  I bring that up because I have to be honest and say that these broadheads were not shaving-sharp, just goodnsharp, but they work.
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[hal]

i use em' along with magnus and zwickey.  on the grizzlies i file the same angle on both sides, then sharpen the beveled point.  they fly great on my cedar shafts and have taken many whitetails for me.  a very strong head!