NAP Spitfires
07-01-2011, 12:24 PM
#1
Fork Horn
Thread Starter
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Pasco, Fl
Posts: 272
NAP Spitfires
Getting ready to purchase my first broadheads for my bow. I've heard a lot of good things mentioned about the NAP Spitifires. I was just wondering if any of yall had good or bad experiences with this broadhead??
07-01-2011, 03:59 PM
#2
Typical Buck
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Amongst the Trees....
Posts: 964
Only good things to say about the spitfires. They are my broadhead of choice for this coming year (Moving to them from a fixed blade) and I have been impressed by them and what they have done with the deer my friend has gotten with them. Definitely a good choice
07-02-2011, 01:32 PM
#5
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Indiana
Posts: 3,372
I shot them for 5 years and took 5 deer with them. On only one of those did I get a pass-thru though. That was the main reason I stopped using them. At first I thought it was shot placement but then I shot a doe broadside at about 20 yds perfectly and still didn't get the pass-thru. I'm unsure why but I kinda got spooked after that and started using Muzzys and Slick-Tricks. I think they are one of the better expandables but I would have felt better shooting all the way through the animal.
Blessings.....Pastorjim
Blessings.....Pastorjim
07-03-2011, 06:25 AM
#6
Fork Horn
Join Date: Aug 2007
Posts: 252
I first used fixed blade NAP Thunderheads and loved them so when i wanted to try mechanicals i went to the NAP Spitfires. Took 2 deer with them, no pass thru's with a 60lb bow on does but it poked halfway out the other side and the exit hole was huge. I bragged about these heads until I got a shot on the biggest buck I ever drew back on. 17 yard chip shot and I saw i hit above vitals but below spine, a high shot but with the angle I would have clipped something. BUT the arrow seemed to go in just a few inches. I don't know if the blade opened pre mature or if it hit bone but there was hardly any penetration. Didn't find a drop of blood. I was done with Spitfires after that. It could be a 100-1 shot what happened as Ive always been happy with Spitfires and NAP products in general but that one incident changed me. I now shoot Rage, I've taken 6 deer with them, unreal blood trails, easy tracking and no deer made it more than 40yds. Lots of opinions out there but thats my experience
07-04-2011, 08:20 AM
#8
Fork Horn
Join Date: Aug 2007
Posts: 252
I think 4 out of the 6 were pass thrus. One was with a crossbow and I was in a tree only about 8 feet up. I shot a 5pt at about 15 yds, it blew right thru him and I watched him run and pile up 40 yards away in a cut bean field. I went looking for the arrow and couldn't find it anywhere. Well it was a good 20 yards from where it went thru the deer. Thanks to the angle and hill it was able to travel that distance before hitting the ground. Probably a million to one shot that it hit pure vitals and nothing else to get that kind of distance. the 2 non pass thru's were my fault. Both quartering away deer hit too far back, like behind the last rib instead of a bit more forward which is what i wanted. The angle still had me take out the vitals and the whole arrow was inside the deer. Until my Rage fails me like the Spitfires, its all I'd use.