nap blood runner
 

ok so today i was at dicks and the first place i always go is the hunting section. as some of you know im a bowhunter on a budget (as most of us are) and i noticed that a 4 pack of blood runners was cheaper than a 3 pack of rages by a dollar or so. has anyone shot these? i want the good bad and ugly please and thanks.

oh and another thing. i looked at the team realtree quick shrink fletchings and they are 20 bucks. as of right now i am shooting 2 green 1 yellow fletchings and its kinda hard to see them in the ground but i was wondering if they fly the same as normal quick shrink fletchings or whatever because they are only 20 for 6 instead of 30

I was at Dicks last night and was looking at them as well. I did a google search about reviews and the only negative thing that I seen about them is the point is spring loaded and as longs as the point is being pushed in then the broadhead will expand out to a 2 1/4" (I believe) wide cut. Oneperson was questioning that if the arropw was going through a deer would the point have continuous pressure to achieve the large cuting area. At a very minimyn if the the blades does not expand out you will have a 1 1/8" cutting area. Hope this helps. There are some youtube demonstations on them and their reviews.

I have tried the Blood runners, The ones i shot made a lot of noise during flight, They are sitting in my shop right now

ok thanks guys

Another question, The last post said that they made a lot of noise. How do they make more nois than say a three blade fixed blade? The two balde broadhead id 1 1/8" retracted. I really like the look of the blades, just was wondering about the moise and the fact that he blades expand upon contact usging constant pressure on the tip.

after watching this i think my mind is made up... http://www.cutsnomatterwhat.com/

watch the last video

Yeah that video is crazy, they look like a good head. If you opt to shoot them make shure you do a write up on them.

Just watched the videos. Crazy, I am going ot Dicks to pick up a package.

Was told today that the 3-blades fly better than the 2-blades. Not a smart guy on mechanical broadheads so I don't know if that's just the norm or not.

well ive always shot 2 blade rage which i liked better than the 3 blade so im sticking to the two blade configuration.

oh and rank bull my write up im assuming you mean like a mini review type deal?

They look good, but if you are really on a budget, slick trick does the best! $25 for 3!

I like the 2 blade Bloodrunners for a couple reasons. One and most important, they fly straight and true, they leave a huge hole (2 1/16") and they can't fail. Even if they don't 'open', you still have a large entry wound. You can bet I will be using them this fall.

I have to agree. I think that any broadhead can be made to shoot good, but slick tricks get it done right out of the box. If your bow shoots good with field points it will more than likely shoot a ST without any adjustments.

i love slick tricks but not for deer. i shoot some old ones at ground hogs, as well as thunderheads which are a great budget head.

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I'd put a ST up against a Rage or bloodrunner any day of the week in any kind of legitimate broadhead test you could come up with. For that matter I would put them up against most any other broadhead made no matter what price.

I have to say they CAN fail. I had one completely blow out on me. I shot it at a target around March and the screw that holds the blade to the tip blew out and the blade popped out the side. The arrow didn't go far into the target because the blade was sticking out sideways. I'd hate to do that to a deer. NAP tech support emiail does not work. I tried for months and got no response. I called asking if i could buy the screw to put in the blade to fix it and the guy said he would go out to the shop, grab one and mail it to me. I thought that was pretty cool. The next day he called back and asked if I had the red or the black heads. Last year when I bought these I bought the red. Then I heard there was a problem with screws not staying tight on the red ones and to return them for black. Turns out it wasn't just the red ones but it could easily have been my fault for not checking the tightness of the screws because i didn't. So, because I told the guy that story he said they were just going to send me the 4 pack. The 4 pack is 3 broadheads and a practice head.

In my opinion they did not shoot like field points. one kept shooting low left or low right, I don't remember which. I'd switch the broahead out and put a field point on it and it was straight again. That was out of my crossbow. I'll find out before too long about my new Diamond Air Raid how they shoot out of it when I get the Blast arrows I ordered. If anybody gives a crap about that I'll write up a review on it when I get it shooting since I haven't seen any yet. I have to do some adjusting with it first. I will be sure to check back in though. I'll upload pictures of the broadhead when I get home Monday as well in case anyone is interested in seeing what happened to it.

Storm Dog - Aint nothing wrong with using a ST for deer. These BH fly straight and true and will leave a big enough hole in any critter on this continent to bring it down quickly if properly placed.

I've got 6 on the shelf right now waiting for opening day!!! NAP customer service is second to none, call them and any problem (however rare it may be) you may encounter will be taken care of. As far as the blades staying fully opened when passing through an animal, they will. If I remember right it only takes about 4-6 pounds of force to keep them deployed. Something about flying like a field point needs to be brought up. Your bow needs to be properly tuned to get the best BH flight possible. Not saying anyone here doesn't have a properly tuned bow but I've seen several over the years that are way out of tune when guys say their BH's don't hit the same as their FP's. All I can say is try them.....you'll love them!!!!

I'm not counting out the possibility and probability of that crossbow needing a tune but the hellrazors I was shooting out of it flew beautifully. I would honestly say that I could sight in with field points and put those on the bow and not worry about re-sighting anything. I'm also not counting out the bloodrunners. They will be in my quiver this year.

NAP did send me 3 new broadheads and a practice head that doesn't open so that it doesn't blow out the screws. In my opinion they did more than they had to. I would have paid for the screw that I needed. I'm not knocking the customer service, just the email service. Calling will get whatever you need taken care of immediately. I almost swore them off because the emails never got answered. After calling I have no issues and actually went out and bought the Quiktune Freedom for the Air Raid.

Here is what happened to the broadhead.

oh i know ive just never bee a big fan of fixed blades for deer.

oh and ryan, my package says not to shoot them from a Xbow.

That makes absolutely no sense to me what so ever.

The only part of the entire system that is actually doing the killing you want to have a bunch of moving parts held together with itsy bitsy screws instead of it being as solid, strong and reliable as possible???????

Things that make you go hmmmm.

My new package does. My old one is long gone. I'm not saying it was NAP's fault. It could be my fault entirely because of the crossbow. I shot them multiple times before without a problem so It could have just finally had enough. I was willing to pay for the screw to fix it. I'll have to get the hellrazors for the xbow again. They flew great out of it.

Good feedback. I've shot the rage 2-blades and they worked fine, but I found that blades pretty flimsy. Was looking at these as well as the G5 T3, but I'm leaning toward these bloodrunners.

Why wouldn't it make any sense to you bigbulls? I mean you shoot what you prefer, I shoot what I prefer. I don't judge you, you don't judge me.

They could not give me a lifetime suplie of blood runners if u ask me there are 4 of us here in Ohio all of us shot deer not one with blood runners they suck I will never ever look at em again when u smoke a deer a 12 yards and there's no blood I don't want nothin to do with blood runners switched to rage in went to backstrap heaven

Hole size and tissue damage?

I thought I stated that when I said this...
Absolutely!

It's pretty simple math.

Slick Trick standard 1" diameter four blade. = 2" total cut.
Slick Trick magnum 1.125" diameter four blade = 2.25" total cut.
Grizz Trick 1.25" diameter four blade = 2.5" total cut.

Blood Runner 2 blade 2 1/16" diameter = 2 1/6" total cut
Blood Runner three blade 1 1/2" diameter = 2.25" total cut

Rage two blade 2" diameter = 2" total cut
Rage three blade 1.5" diameter = 2.25" total cut.

The only variable is penetration through the deer. I'll take the bet any day of the week that a Slick Trick (or other similar head like a Muzzy MX4, Wac'em exit, Stryker magnums, etc) will out penetrate any of the blood runners or Rage heads.

i watched all of those videos. Was there even one pass through? Not knocking em. Just saying to each his own i guess. I want as much penetration as possible.