ORIGINAL: LouisianaTomkat
Original: Rob /PA Bowyer
Yes they are cutting as they are opening. Rage and Snypers, Snypers being the first are the only head that open in this style. On impact the blades are at their widest and are cutting,
Please explain to me ( no argument here) how the blades are actually cutting while opening, when there is no back-up pressure being applied until they are fully deployed. Or do they fit that tight in the ferrule that the hide of the deer is actually pushing them open from the front? If so, I still can not see how they have enough pressure when half deployed to be cutting. I am a little confused to how that works. To me, it looks like a knife blade that is only open halfway until it stops. In effect, if that is the case, they are probably doing very little cutting until fully deployed.
Fill me in.
LT
As the blades slam out sideways at impact the blunt shoulders of them offer more resistance than the cutting edge on the opposite side holding them in place briefly before they lock down in place.
They don't just freely flop open swinging like a gate.......they are levered with force outward into place with enough resistance to cut hair and hide before they lock down.
Its a similar principle to the design of the Rocky Mt. Gator if you look at it. There is no locking at all of the blades on that head and they actually free float. Its the blunt dull ears or shoulders of the blades that keeps the blades extended. If they tried to retract or fold up the greater resistance on the dull end would shove them back out again.
The free float design on THAT head is actually pretty nice because if you slide along a leg bone or rib with one blade the bone offers more resistance for a split second allowing the blade to fold until it clears the harder object and then extend back out as the tissue becomes uniform again.