Kodiak Single Bevel 2-Blade Glue-On Broadheads Review

Best broadhead I have ever used.

I have used this broadhead exclusively for the last 3 years. I have taken Kudu, Blesbok,, Impala, Warthog, Elk and Deer. Almost all of the kills were complete pass throughs. On a very large elk, the broadhead penetrated diagonally through the animal and broke the large front leg bone on the far side. Great penetration! They hold up very well. One point has now taken three… read more different animals. I find that although the steel is hard they are easy to sharpen if the right tools are used. I use a belt sander and diamond hone and sharpen very nicely.

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Great product, quality control issues

I love my Grizzly Kodiaks, they have proven to be accurate, very deadly, very durable, and far easier to sharpen than the zwickey eskimos I used to shoot. BUT they have some serious quality control issues. I have bought two six packs, and only have 10 shootable broadheads. In the first package one of the heads had a ferrule that was too small to accept an adapter. Upon inspection… read more there was what appeared to be paint of brazing material pooled in the tip of the ferrule. I thought that quality control issue was a fluke, and let it go. In my second batch I had no such issues with fit, but today I realized that one head had a crack running the length of the ferrule. It has never been shot, and was glued to a steel adapter with JB weld. Very disappointed. I will not be buying these heads again.

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Wonderful broad head

Easy to sharpen using a japanese water stone. You can shoot into a broadhead target multiple times and they're still sharp. I touch them up on the water stone and they shave hair. Come really sharp out of the package. I don't know what the other reviewers are talking about but maybe they're referring to the broadheads made earlier. The ONLY negative that I could find is the finish… read more on the head wears off a little after shooting into a target a couple hundred times. Hardly a problem.

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Low quality for price

When I saw that grizzly was redesigned I decided to give them a try.i was very disappointed with these heads. Very dull and chipped blades require way to much effort for this price. Also must have been an issue with stamping because there was a belly in one side of all the blades. For this price you should get a much better product.weight was supposed to be 160 but all six were… read more low 150.They are supposed to be 1 3/16 cutting diameter but instead are 1 1/8 exactly. And they spin horribl Sorry but I am yet to find a single bevel head that I can get as sharp as a Zwicky or Stos. Save some money and buy one of these two heads instead

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Could be better

Given the quality you get for the price, I have to say I am quite dissapointed...all 6 heads were duller than a butter knife and all had chips missing from the blades. I spent a total of 3 hours sharpening these blades up and they still won't shave...I chose the best 3 for broadheads and they are semi-sharp, but the sharpness I've acquired after 3 hours of sharpening should be expected… read more straight out of the box. Never the less I will give them the benefit of the doubt and try them this season, if they acquire good penetration and a good blood trail I MAY stick with them, if not I am looking elsewere.

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Great for Africa but...

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)… read more 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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Single bevel

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… read more 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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I have no reason to shoot anything else.

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… read more 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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Hog Killer!

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… read more 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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This is bad to the bone

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… read more 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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