Product Reviews for El Grande Grizzly Broadheads

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El Grande Grizzly Broadheads

4.8

(based on 5 reviews)

100%

of respondents would recommend this to a friend.

Pros

Durable (5)
Good penetration (5)
Accurate (4)
Consistent (3)
Easy to use (3)

Cons

Best Uses

Hunting (5)

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4/11/2013

4.0

Great for Africa but...

By Serbian hunter

from Serbia

About Me Competitive Archer

Pros

Durable
Good Penetration

Cons

Hard To Sharpen

Best Uses

Hunting

Comments about El Grande Grizzly Broadheads:

Luckily, I bought El Grande Grizzly broadheads two months prior to 2012 bowhunting in Namibia so I had enough time to prepare my setup (#70 compound and Grizzly on top of FMJ arrows). In first setup I tried straight plastic 5" vanes and it fly straight for 30m only. Due to large surface of broadhead itself, after 30m arrows was drifting away enough to completely miss target (40x50cm) at 50m so I was forced to move to 5" feather helical which completely solved the problem.
Another problem was shaping & sharpening. My first impression was that Grizzly is just semi-ready-to-use product; raw edges, dull blade, geometry far away from ready to use. I spent 2 hours per broadhead to turn it up in Tanto-point sharp deep penetrating blade.
I shot 3 animals in Africa with Grizzly and aside of extraordinary penetration I noticed that aluminum adapters were not strong enough to hold on. I shot great blue wildebeest through chest/lung area cutting ribs both on entry and exit, and broadhead broke front leg bone and stopped. Great penetration but I was unpleasantly surprised that adapter couldn't make it, breaking head off of shaft.
Bottom line: If you have enough time to work on broadhead, if you don't mind feather instead of plastic vanes and if you choose brass or steel adapters, El Grande Grizzly will be your top choice for large African game.

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7/27/2012

(2 of 2 customers found this review helpful)

5.0

Single bevel

By yetti5120

from Kalispell, MT

About Me Competitive Archer

Pros

Accurate
Durable
Good Penetration
sharpens easily

Cons

Came very dull

Best Uses

Hunting

Comments about El Grande Grizzly Broadheads:

I wanted to try single bevel blade without all the cost. I had already decided to use a broad head around 300 grains so I needed to find something that was either 300 grains screw-on or 200 grains glue on. I put 100 grain inserts in these to get my 300 grains. Out of the package the broad heads were extremely dull. So dull the I am not sure they could have cut my skin. I sharpened them on the disk grinder wheels that I got from another place and they became so shape that I only had to run them across my arm and they would shave my arms. I then tested the blades in a cow shoulder with my bear Kodak 60#. The total arrow weight was 746 grains. The blade fractured the bone and never slowed down. I shoot the blade from my compound and the entires shoulder broke in half. Very impressive what a single bevel will do. All of these test were done comparing them to 3 blade broad heads.

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6/18/2012

(2 of 2 customers found this review helpful)

5.0

I have no reason to shoot anything else.

By dotllama

from Eagle River, Alaska

About Me Recreational Archer

Pros

Accurate
Consistent
Durable
Easy To Use
Good Penetration
Very Straight
Well Crafted

Cons

Best Uses

Hunting

Comments about El Grande Grizzly Broadheads:

After 50 years of bowhunting, I find these fly better and penetrate better than any other brand of broadhead that I have ever used. Easy to sharpen by using a mill file initially to establish the bevel. The file should just clear the ferrule. Keep at it until a slight burr is created along the entire length of the edge. Then switch to a KME broadhead sharpening jig to form a secondary bevel at a slightly more obtuse angle. I use wet and dry sandpaper in progressively finer grits. The sandpaper should be soaked in a pail of water and then wrapped around a piece of plate glass.

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4/16/2012

(1 of 1 customers found this review helpful)

5.0

Hog Killer!

By fastflight71

from Laredo, Texas

About Me Expert Archer

Pros

Accurate
Consistent
Durable
Easy To Use
Good Penetration
Very Straight
Well Crafted

Cons

Hard To Sharpen

Best Uses

Hunting

Comments about El Grande Grizzly Broadheads:

I got these because I wanted to see what all the rage was on this single bevel thing. I loaded up 3 arrows with my new Kodiaks, and off to the brush I went for hogs. It was a hog sticking free for all! My first three arrows were complete pass throughs! Having run out of arrows with Kodiaks, I had to resort to using the back up arrows that I keep in my blind. That is why they are backups....no pass throughs on any of the hogs. Kodiaks in 160 grain are a bit hard to sharpen, but once they have an edge, look out!

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3/26/2012

(4 of 4 customers found this review helpful)

5.0

this is bad to the bone

By firetool

from Lubbock,Tx.

About Me Recreational Archer

Pros

Accurate
Consistent
Durable
Easy To Use
Good Penetration
Very Straight
Well Crafted

Cons

Best Uses

Blowing through bone
Hunting

Comments about El Grande Grizzly Broadheads:

I was impressed with how well made and and strait the broadheads were. I was after big tough spanish goats. I was shooting a 52# recurve and gold tip traditional arrows,the head was a El grande grizzly 160 grian with a 32 grain insert. The arrow blow right through the ribs on the left side and went through the right shoulder bone. The arrow hardly slowed at all. When I recovered the arrow there was no damage to it at all. It was sharp enough to shoot some thing else if i had to. This product was outstanding. I will contime to shoot it. I am about to set up a arrow for my wife to shoot out of her compound. She wont have to worry about penitration

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