I thought I would share with everyone a few things I have done with the new NAP Thunderhead Razors. Let me start off by saying I didn't go out and buy these after reading about them or someone suggesting them to me. Ireceivedd them from NAP as a gift for lack of better term due to a product of their failing. They sent me a replacement and in the package was a $40.00 set of Broad Heads. I was impressed to say the least. A few weeks after I revived them I decided to screw them on and give them a shot. After looking at them I didn't think they would be any different than any other fixed blade I had tried before. What I was expecting was to shoot them and have to start adjusting things to get them shooting with my field points. I nocked an arrow with one screwed on the end draw back, anchored, set the pin, release and follow through. Dead on!!! I started to think it was impressive then thought well that was just one. I'll give the other two a try and see what happens. Whack, Whack, both of those were dead on also. Now I was starting to be impressed. Well, that was at 20yd. Lets try this at 30yd. From what I have seen in the past if there is anything wrong with my set up, it shows way worse the farther out I get. Well, dead on again, all 3 of them with no adjustments. Now thats impressive: 40yd was the same. I felt pretty confident and I had just started shooting past 40yd on a regular basis. 50yd was about my max of holding a really tight group. Meaning I was holding between 3"-4" group at 50yd. I was feeling so good about the way these bad boys were flying, I had to give them a shot at oh, 65yd. Here is what happened: So they shoot great now how sharp are they? Well, I don't know how they do on deer yet as I haven't shot one with them yet but, that doesn't mean I haven't shot other things with them out of boredom. The first one I let fly in the stand was at a plastic drum bottom that has been laying in the woods since before I started hunting my property. I was in the stand, the drum was in front of me and I hadn't seen anything in a few weeks so what else was I supposed to do? I drew back then thought hhm, wonder what will happen if I shoot it kind of to the side so that it hits on an angle, one way to find out. Whap!!! Right through it!! Now think about this, it was 32 degrees and plastic. That means this thing was cold and hard. Heres the pics of that one: Well, yesterday my brother and I were hunting the blind I brushed in at the beginning of the week when it happened again. Yep complete boredom and something else to shoot at. Our blind is set up on my old archery range. On the range there are range markers that I made out of stakes and 1/4" plywood that is held to the stake by only 3 brad nails. When I set the blind up I measured out the yardage in 10yd increments and put stakes out to 40yd just because I hadn't hunted out of a blind before and these markers aren't foriegn to the deer in that area. so I had a 30yd marker staring at me waiting to get whacked with an arrow. I asked my brother hey do you think I can hit the 0 in the 30 from here? He said you? Yeah, I'm sure you can, shoot it and see. Thats all the encouragement I needed. I expected if I did hit it, it would stick in slightly and knock the board off the stake. I drew back, anchored, set the pin, release and follow through. The arrow went flying and whap! it looked like I hit the top of it and it defected slightly up. It looked like I hit the mark though. We climbed out of the blind and went to check it out. I was surprised at what I found: It had passed completely through so fast that it didn't knock the board off. It cut right through it like a bullet would have just with a bigger hole. I looked for the arrow for a couple minutes but, wanted to get back in the blind in case a deer came out. I feel sure the head is fine and will update with a picture of the head later. My Conclusion is that these heads are tough, sharp and super accurate and I am now a NAP Thunderhead Razor user and until I find something else that not only holds up like this but is as sharp, I will not be using any other broad head period. NAP has one happy customer. I have a little over a week left to arrow a deer with these and I am going to try my hardest hunting almost every day until the sun sets Jan. 2nd 2012. If I do arrow a deer with one this season, I will post pics of it.
No I haven't. Probably wont either unless I am just trying them out. I have shot the NAP Bloodrunners though. They fly great. Thats what my brother uses.
I havn't shot a Thunderhead in years, I have been happy with Spitfires and when the Blood Runner 3 blade came out I was excited to see what they could do, and have been stuck with them. The Hell Razors look tough and would expect nothing but great reviews by the users of that head. When I get some extra time I may have to go out and get some just to see.
Glad to hear the good report. I have been thinking about trying them, but since my particular pack of Bloodrunners was junk beyond belief, I am hesitant to get more NAP blades. I may go ahead and try them, though.
I think it is awesome when a company does something like that and fixes something that went wrong with a product but also goes above and beyond to make sure they have a happy customer. It sounds like NAP has great customer service. That alone makes me want to use more of their products.
If you do and ever have a problem they go 400% out of their way to fix it and make you happy yopu decided to use their products. They have a customer for life with me. Right now I use their broadheads (2 different ones), Apache rest, Apache 8" stabilizer, Qick Fletch Quick Spins, Quick Fletch Twisters and when I buy a new bow, I will be buying the NAP bow sling. Love their products and most of all their customer service. If they made a bow, sights and a quiver, I would use it all. I really do with they would make an Apache sight.
I started shooting the Razors as well this year. I moved from the old thunderhead design just to see if I could eliminate the broadhead tuning step. Just like sticks said, the broadheads shot identical to the feild points. Haven't shot a buck yet this year (waiting for 140"+) but shot a doe and three coyotes. All three shots were pass throughs and they left some serious wounds in the animal. I was concerned at first with the smaller cutting diameter, 1-1/8" I believe. But after shooting those three animals I am more than satisfied. Def going to shoot them again next year.
