Hey there guys,

I am going to be ordering my broadheads either tonight or tommorow evening and I am trying to decide which ones to get. I was pretty much set on the Rocky Mt Snypers, but the Vortex Pro Extreme' s cutting diameter would be nice.

Now, my bow as of right now is shooting a 419.9 grain arrow at 302 f.p.s. I have decided that I am going to put in a peep sight and string leechs so, that is gonna slow me down to about 293-295 f.p.s. Shooting these arrows at 293 f.p.s. would give me 80 foot pounds of KE and shooting at 295 f.p.s. would give me 81 foot pounds of KE. At the absolute lowest, I will be shooting at around 288 f.p.s. which would give me 77 foot pounds of KE.

Now, I have heard the Snypers are awsome heads for flight and penetration. The thing is, with this type of KE, do I have to worry AS much about penetration? The Snypers have a 1-3/8" open cutting diameter and 5/8" closed cutting diameter where as the Vortex Pro Extreme 100' s have closed cutting diameter of 7/8" and a open cutting diameter of 2-1/2" cutting diameter. Like I said, I would think that I have more than enough KE for this head.

Here is my question. Does the Vortex perform and fly as well as the Snypers? Has anybody used them? What results? What kind of durability?

I definetly want a mechanical broadhead this year, but I am kinda leaning towards getting a larger cutting diameter since I will have enough KE.

Any help with this would be appreciated. Thanks.

IME, they both fly great (I have shot both but only hunted w/ the snyper) but I have had real trouble with the Snyper tip......I think if you are going to be hunting nothing but deer, either will work....W/ that KE and only hunting deer I' d shoot the Vortex and try to cut one in half.......

I agree with CG, with that kind of KE you could really take advantage of the bigger cutting diamters. One other head to look at is the Rocky gator. I was very impressed with it. Of course as soon as I tested it I see the changed the tip style to one similar to the snypers. From the pictures It looks like it will preform well, but I won' t know for sure until I test them.

Hey 5shot,

That is another one I was looking at. I remember your review and if I am correct, the old regular gators, not the XP' s scored better than the snypers. I really would like to take advantage of the KE and get the bigger cutting diameter to open it up more. I will be hunting just deer, doe will probablly be in the 150-165 pound live weight range and the bucks could be anywhere from the 200-250 pound live weight range, YES, this is Pennsylvania, we have some areas with BIG body deer

I am not sure yet, but, I think that I am going to hold out until next weeked and get a hafl dozen. I am really thinking about the Gator XP' s, and if I do, I will send you some to test 5shot. But, I am not making any guarentees. If it is a broadhead you havn' t tested, I will try my darndest to send some to you (unless of course they are too good to get rid of )

Thanks you two. I am gonna wait for some more replies to see if anybody else has anything to say about them.