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Someone has been making some good money this year.


LOL! If you read the bet again you see that loser covers the broadhead cost too. I would only be out the cost of the broadheads for a short time.


People will say that anything mechanical can fail. And while technically true they never consider the probability of such an event. There are many things that while possible are at the same time so unlikely as to push right to the brink of impossible. These type broadheads open via a simple hinge mechanism. Push on the front of the blade and they swing open. About as simple and foolproof as it gets. The original poster claims that none of the 3 blades on the reaper opened. The 3 blades on a Reaper work completely independently of one another. So what is actually being alleged here (whether it's realized or not) is that not one, not two but three simple hinges on all three blades failed simultaneously. The odds of one failing are very long. The odds of two failing are in the Florida lottery range. The odds of all three failing (outside of deliberate sabotage) are so astronomical they would be into the billions to one.

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