With all the new broadheads flooding the market this year, the one that caught my attention is the  Bloodrunner by New Archery Products (NAP). The more I looked at them, the more intrigued I became. There was something about the look that I liked. As I read on the advertising it said “The Best of Both Worlds”; it’s a fixed and expandable broadhead all in one. This should make the ones that like fixed broadheads and the ones that like the expendables happy. It sort of reminds me of the Nosler Partition bullet.

In the picture to the left you will see the Bloodrunnder 2 blade and on the right the Bloodrunner 3 blade. You can purchase the practice heads shown in each picture. This makes it nice because you can practice with them and not ruin your hunting blades, and the practice heads fly just like the real broadhead. They also come in different weights of 100 and 125 grain just like the broadhead itself.

In the picture to your left you see the Bloodrunner 2 blade. On the far left is the practice head, in the middle is the Bloodrunner in shooting form and on the right is the Bloodrunner expanded when it contacts the target. As you can see the practice blades do not have the wing formation, it is left off for easy target removal, and it flies the same as the hunting broadhead.

In the picture on the right you see the Bloodrunner 3 blade. From left to right is the practice head,  in the middle is the broadhead  in its expanded form and on the right is the broadhead in its shooting form. Notice the trophy tip has a shaft that pushes back on contact on each broadhead.

In the pictures to the left you see the Bloodrunner 2 and 3 blade in its shooting form and then in the expanded form. As you can see by the tape measure in top photo that the 3 blade is at 7/8 width, and in the center you see the 3 blade expanded to 1 1/2 inch cutting surface. In the bottom photo you see the 2 blade Bloodrunner in its shooting form at a 1 inch cutting surface ,and when it is expanded has a whopping 2 1/4 inch cutting surface. Even if the blade would fail to open, you still have a blade that will cut on contact. If you look closely you will see that the 2 and 3 blade Bloodrunners are spring loaded to open on impact, which causes the blades to open no matter the angle. The trophy tips are very strong and the spring that makes the blades open is set at a low tension that it easily opens the blades. I have shot both the broadheads 30 times into a broadhead target with a piece of cardboard and the Bloodrunner’s have never failed to open even shooting at an angle.

Now lets get to the meat of the subject! How do they Fly? In my own words, they fly excellent. In the pictures below you will see a grouping of the practice heads then a grouping of the broadheads with their practice counterpart. Pictures A and B are of different angles. The arrow on the right is a field point, the arrow on the top left is the 2 blade Bloodrunner and on the bottom left is the 3 blade Bloodrunner. This group was shot from 40 yards.

In the next 2 photos you will see the grouping of the 2 blade Bloodrunner. In pictures C and D the arrow to the right is the practice head and on the left is the real broadhead. The pictures are of different angles to help you see the accuracy of the Bloodrunner 2 blade

In the last two photos is the Bloodrunner 3 blade. In pictures E and F the arrow to the left is the practice and the arrow to the right is the real broadhead.

All of these groups were shot from 40 yards. So would I use one of these Bloodrunners? The answer is YES, and I will be taking one of them on my trip to Alberta, Canada this coming September. As to which one I will take, it will be a coin toss. I will most likely take the 3 blade due to the fact that it has one more blade, and the ferrule body is thicker than the 2 blade. As to which one you would chose, I will leave that one up to you, but you won’t go wrong with either one. So for now God Bless and good hunting.

By David Rice

David "dlr" Rice started hunting at the age of 17.  He has always been interested in the sport but never had the chance to go because no one in his family hunted. His father took him fishing but he never liked the aspect of hunting.

While in high school David had friends that hunted with their father’s. He had been invited a few times to go, but his father thought it was too dangerous. His best friend Bobby's Dad worked with David's dad and he asked if it would be ok for him to go hunting with them. His father gave the ok and from that point on he was hooked.

So David has been hunting since the age of 17 and has never stopped since. His passion grew from small game to big game. He started to bow hunt at the age of 23 and loved it more then gun hunting. He loves the aspect of being proficient with the bow and how you have to come face to face with your game. He is a self taught bow tech and loves to work on bows and help anyone that he can.

David has been coaching youngsters in Archery, rifle, shotgun, muzzle loading, orienteering, and wild life id. He has coached in the YHEC program for 8 years, and is still active in the YHEC program by volunteering for the state and international level.  He has been teaching Hunter Ed for the state of Maryland for over 19 years and loves every minute of it. He is now in the process of becoming a Hunter Ed teacher for the state of Pennsylvania as well.