![]() ![]() The Grim Reaper my opinion too many moving parts although they are very durable to me that’s not as important as the areas it fell short. The Slick trick scored high but my biggest rub with it other than the fact they basically created a swhacker is that the deployment blades did not have sharp edges so if for some reason you get a defective head and the blades don’t deploy you don’t have that back up, where the swhacker if the blades didn’t open you still make a 1″ hole. I suppose if you were shooting lower poundage and needed the big blade up front to make a bigger entrance hole it might be a good choice for you. The Grave digger I chose I was unimpressed however looking at the design of their chisel point I feel it would have been a better performing broadhead then the cut on contact. I never use the same broadhead to shoot through an animal over again anyway( except for coyotes). Mechanical Broadhead review: Swhacker was the clear winner for me on the mechanical side although they scored very low in durability they scored high where it counts for me. The design cuts big holes, flies great, and performs fine on what I consider "reasonable bone" regardless of whether or not is says "RAGE" on the package.So here is my two cents take it or leave it…. My experience with my batch is that they are equivalent, and I've shot several packs of the real deal at critters. I think if you like the design, there's $0 reason to pay $15 for a head. I've considered switching to the Shwacker design because I've always considered Shwacker/Rage to be interchangeable in the big-honkin'-two-blade-mech category and the Shwackers retain the cutting edge inside the body of the head which I'm guessing would make for a sharper blade, but it's a problem that seems to not need fixing. I can't find a reason to not be happy with them TBH. I have not sharpened a single one in the name of science, and I have not failed to kill any critters that I put good shots on. They are on the whole not as sharp as the genuine product, but I suspect that is because they get packed and shipped loose in batches of a dozen and that dulls them some. Most of them have survived and appeared in good working order. I don't remember how many deer I killed with them last year but I have not had any issues with them whatsoever, other than maybe it psyching me out a bit to pull what I know is a sub-$2 piece of metal out of the plastic bag they shipped in and screw it on an arrow to hunt with. I've killed 1 coyote, 2 deer, and a big boar hog with the chinadermics this year. I plan on shooting them until they give me a reason not to, and trying to take pictures and do more write ups for folks. ![]() But I got full penetration and lost $1.50. Caught both scapulas and ended up with 2 bent blades, which is honestly par for the course with mechs. They were about as sharp as the real hypodermic I had in my quiver, so I went hunting with them. There wasn't a dime's worth of difference in them once they showed up, and they all weighed within a couple grains of 100 and did well on a spin test. $30 for 2 dozen of them, making them about one tenth the cost of the official ones. I posted a while ago asking about durable heads, but got to thinking about the loss rate and decided that didn't make sense. So far I've shot at 9 deer this season and recovered only 2 arrows intact. A short arrow going real fast in mud and palmettos often means a lost arrow. ![]() I bought a dozen "Chinadermics" off of Ebay, because I like Rage but $15 a pop is a bit ridiculous for what's quite possibly a throw away arrow. ![]()
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