Those new Blood Runner Broadheads by NAP
 

Bought a pack of them last week. After shooting one I went to buy some replacement blades. OMG, they don't make any:rant:.
Now wouldn't you think after looking at them that they would have replacement blades? The site I bought them from called NAP and NAP said NOPE, we don't have them, and suggested that the customer resharpen them. What a crok of peeuuuu. Well NAP, you got my last $

man thats odd. kinda new so they might make them in the future. id contact NAP myself. the last time i had a problem wit NAP i called them up and the only question they asked was how they could fix the situation.

Don't know if you have ever used Slick Tricks, but they sure fly just like your fieldtip, put animals down quickly, and have replaceable blades.

The things look like a golf ball with blades....The head looks way too thick to me. Looks like it would hurt with getting a pass through.

Actually it looks pretty neat in hand. Will shoot the one I shot in the basement a few times extensivly this weekend outside. I did contact NAP right before I posted this thread so I havn't heard back yet, maybe tomorrow.

I believe sometimes we expect too much from outdoor companies. I mean how dare they ask someone to re-sharpen some blades? Why would that bother someone. When I buy new tires for my truck (and they cost a ton more than a broadhead), I don't believe that someone is responsible for pumping up my tires when they get low. We need to take some responsiblity and stop being so cheap and dependent on companies to handle problems unless our claims are valid.

Sure...but thats also like saying...I just bought a new Chevy truck...and Chevy doesn't make a starter for it...
In regards to putting out a BH without replacement blades....they should have known better.

Thats kinda weird that they dont make blades for them, but the broadheads do look crazy, i'd like to see how they work.

Should of bought Muzzy's

I stopped buying NAP products after the blades came out of my first pack of thunderheads lol...

I like the Magnus 2 blades and never have to worry about replacing them. I shy away from blades you have to put together or replace from time to time.. So for me it is fixed blades anyways..

I bought them to experiment with them. I use the Shuttle T's.

I can easily see where both of y'all are coming from. Personally, I feel that if a company is going to advertise that their broadhead has replaceable blades... then they certainly ought to have replaceable blades available.... or if not available immediately... at LEAST in the works. These things are new and it can take some time to get everything out to the stores, but not making them at all??? Why tout that as a feature of the head then?

Swamp, I don't know that they did,it just looked like there were screws holding the blades in but there more like rivits. It's more my fault I guess and just thought I would pass the info along so others don't do what I did.

I was checking them out myself Rickmur. Thanks for the heads up. They look cool though.
Chris

I don't get it. Explain.

I was interested in these as well. So last week I went to the bow shop here and I picked some up after a demonstration. They shoot very well and appear to work just as advertised. The owner told me that you can sharpen them like you would a fixed blade and that NAP was going to make replacement blades available soon. I will let you know how they work on deer this fall but from what I saw I don't see any problems.

if you emailed them rick you might wanna check your spam. i made that mistake. waited for a response and the next thing i know i had new fletchings in the mail box. check my spam and they had contacted me in like 2 days but i didnt see it. lol

im with ya though rick. they should come out with the blades as soon as the head is released. they know people are gonna snatch them up at the beginning. oh well. live amd learn.

I was going to explain but I will just go back and delete it as bad choice of words. Sorry.

Honestly that is why I don't shoot Spitfires anymore. Sure they sell blades for them, but there is only so much blood and sanity I'm willing to lose repacing them. It got the point that they were a one and done broadhead and at $10 a pop I looked for other options.

From the looks of the Bloodrunner they look like they should be easy to resharpen, but I'm surprised that replacement blades aren't available. That is one thing NAP has always had going for them. Their blades are always scary sharp right out of the package.

No problem, I was just asking because that post didn't add up to me. Best of luck this fall, knock em dead.

I'm still trying to figure out how they've become so talked about . . . I guess it's all the advertising. It seems to me that it should shoot about like any other fixed blade BH since it's an inch wide closed. When it hits, you only get another half inch from it and it seems like a very expensive 1/2 inch. What is really surprising is not being able to replace the blades without having to sharpen them. I guess they want us to buy even more of them than we need.

Muzzy are my stand by. Never a problem with them. 90% pass through on the deer I have shot. No sound and deadly in my opinion. I will never change. My two hunting buddies for some reason have been messing around with different broad heads for the past two years with no luck. I expect they will go back to muzzy also.

I was a muzzy man too, until I shot the slick trick.... Still like the Muzzy's but love the st's...

I've only had 3 different broadheads now. First were the Hallrazors and I love them. I'd still be shooting them if I hadn't shot a doe with one and it needs resharpened, shot one at my target with the range picked wrong like an idiot and lost the whole arrow in some soft mud and tall grass and was left with 1 broadhead. Then I bought the G5s because nobody carried the hellrazors in 125g and I really didn't want to sight back in before going into the woods and the G5 and hellrazor have such a similar shape that I figured the flight wouldn't be that different. Then I shot some 100g field points and figured it didn't take much to sight back in to that and bought these. I'm hoping they work well, but the Hellrazors will be a fallback. I haven't shot the G5s as I plan on returning them tomorrow. Hopefully I can put one in a deer and take a few pictures to see what they can do. If and when I do I'll be sure to post.

One thing I kinda dig about these is they will flex a little through ribs like the Atom headsand expand again after so you won't lose as much KE breaking ribs. At least that's how it looks. They don't lock open but they will continue to cut regardless. Unlike the atom, though, you have the potential for 1.5" cut instead of just 1"

Brother shoots them and stuck an eight point, it caused significant damage and had he put a better shot on him instead of shooting him in the guts then it would have been worse. He did not get a pass through, which I don't think has anything to do with the broadhead but more with his bow. Despite the non pass through we ended up with a massive blood trail and a dead deer that night.

They sell Blood Runner practice heads so you don't have to use the good ones.

I got them this year. Shot a nice ten pointer. put a big hole going in and out. complete pass through. got a nice shot and the deer didn't go 20 yards. They fly good a kill deer. Shap out of the box and didn't take much to touch up/sharpen.