{"id":3506,"date":"2024-11-01T11:43:29","date_gmt":"2024-11-01T12:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insurancesalescoach.com\/?p=3506"},"modified":"2024-11-04T22:03:54","modified_gmt":"2024-11-04T22:03:54","slug":"10-yard-blood-trail-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/insurancesalescoach.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/01\/10-yard-blood-trail-10\/","title":{"rendered":"10-Yard Blood Trail"},"content":{"rendered":"

“You should try the Grim Reaper Whitetail Special,” advised Bruce Ryan, Manager of the Bowhunting.Net website.\u00a0 “They are Grim Reaper’s best-selling broadhead, and with two-inch blades, it makes a massive cut.”\u00a0 I had been successfully using a two-blade expandable but was happy to try the new head and tipped my TenPoint premium arrows with them.<\/p>\n

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Opportunity Nocks<\/h3>\n

I was hunting in West Virginia beside the Monongahela National Forest when a rutting buck passed my stand, hazing a herd of does.\u00a0 The 6-point kept moving and didn’t present a shot at first light.\u00a0 However, half an hour later, it trailed two other does and stopped 25 yards from my stand.\u00a0 The scope on the AXE was crisp and showed just its midsection through a patch of trees.\u00a0 At 400 fps, the arrow caught the buck just behind the shoulder on a slightly quartering-to angle.\u00a0 Despite the size of this large mountain buck, it wobbled a few steps forward and went down- WITHIN 10 YARDS.<\/p>\n

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Gaping Exit Wound<\/h3>\n

Usually, I don’t show images with excessive blood, yet to prove the point, I’ve included the lead photo.\u00a0 Note that this is an entrance wound.\u00a0 I found the arrow buried in the soil and the extensive 3-blade exit wound shown above.\u00a0 The Grim Reaper’s motto is “Watch ‘Em Drop,” and that’s literally what happened to me.\u00a0 This buck lived just seconds after it was struck by my arrow, the quickest and most humane demise I’ve seen in 50 years of hunting.<\/p>\n

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Tough as Nails<\/h3>\n

As the arrow passed through the buck’s ribs, one fletch was torn off, as seen in the picture above.\u00a0 Most mechanical braodheads are “one and done,” yet I wondered if the Whitetail Special would still fly true.\u00a0 After cleaning all the dirt from the head back at camp and closing the blades, I nocked the used arrow, stepped back 10 yards, and launched.\u00a0 Despite the two-fletch arrow and significant punishment, the head still flew true.\u00a0 I’m convinced this head is the most lethal a deer hunter can use, and I immediately became a fan.\u00a0 For the Whitetail Special and other Grim Reaper broadheads, click here<\/a>. Crossbow users should go to the crossbow heading in the menu.\u00a0 Since crossbows have such high torque, the Whitetail Specials for crossbows come in 150 grains and have stronger retention springs to ensure against premature deployment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“You should try the Grim Reaper Whitetail Special,” advised Bruce Ryan, Manager of the Bowhunting.Net website.\u00a0 “They are Grim Reaper’s best-selling broadhead, and with two-inch blades, it makes a massive cut.”\u00a0 I had been successfully using a two-blade expandable but was happy to try the new head and tipped my TenPoint premium arrows with them….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/insurancesalescoach.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3506"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/insurancesalescoach.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/insurancesalescoach.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insurancesalescoach.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insurancesalescoach.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3506"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/insurancesalescoach.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3509,"href":"https:\/\/insurancesalescoach.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3506\/revisions\/3509"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insurancesalescoach.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/insurancesalescoach.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insurancesalescoach.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insurancesalescoach.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}