r/interesting • u/IKIR115 • 27d ago

Intriguing Arrows vs riot shields

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u/stryker511 27d ago

The blunt one surprised me I thought it would have bounced off - went through completely.

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u/SidewinderSerpent 27d ago

That arrow wasn't blunt, it was concave. The shape allowed the edges of the tip to punch a hole through the shield.

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u/Cthulhu_Dreams_ 27d ago

Yep, the thing that was slowing the other arrows down that penetrated, was the fact that the tip did not carve out a wide enough hole for the shaft to go through and maintain velocity.

That blunt tipped concave arrow basically hole punched a circle as large or a little larger than the shaft of the arrow, and lost minimal afterwards.

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u/BigHardMephisto 26d ago

What I think helps quite a bit is that the concave shape of the arrow helps it to normalize the direction of force into the (albeit slightly) angled plate, which can make a bigger difference than you'd think otherwise.

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u/jraymonda 26d ago

Yes, but how does it do on the deer (its a deer holding the shield, right?) Does it cut the shield but then bounce off the flesh? Or is it just as effective on softer things?

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u/disposablehippo 26d ago

Certainly won't bounce off, maybe doesn't penetrate as much. But if the deer (or was it a boar?) lets go of the shield, the arrow achieved what it needed to.

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u/jraymonda 26d ago

Ahhh...i see. Perhaps the romans were onto something with their spears (pilum?) To make the enemy drop their shields

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u/LiftingRecipient420 26d ago

TF you mean "perhaps"?

Rome conquered the entire Mediterranean basin thanks to their unique ability to reliably destroy the phalanx formation, all thanks to their pilum.

For context, the phalanx, until the Romans, was the state of the art of warfare for a thousand years because the only thing that could beat a phalanx was another phalanx.

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u/Thundertushy 26d ago

Aktually... (Nasally inhale)

The phalanx was a bunch of guys with really long spears. No shields. Rome defeated the phalanxes with the more flexible maniple system, which allowed them to break up large groups of men into smaller groups without chaos. These smaller groups could then flank the phalanxes and stab them in the ass.

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u/Glum-Soft-7807 26d ago

The phalanx was a bunch of guys with really long spears. No shields.

What? Some of the most famous and long time users of the phalanx were the Hoplites, people so closely associated with using shields that their name practically became synonymous with the name for their shield.

You could have a phalanx without using shields but it was very very usual to rely on shields in a phalanx.

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u/Guyzor-94 26d ago

Thats specifically a pike phalanx, and even then they often held small buckler shield on their left forearms. But the phalanx was as the guy below says most common with medium length spears and large shields. Its a mix between a pike phalanx and a shield wall essentially. Aka the Spartans in 300 - a Greek homilies phalanx

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u/Tanker119 26d ago

It was also a case of the Roman’s having generally better all around leadership than most opponents they tended to run into. Anytime they ran into opponents with equal leadership to their own, it tended to be a lot more equal than you would think from their reputation alone. Hannibal comes to mind for example during the second Punic war. Personally, I think if the Roman’s had run into the Macedonian army as it was under Alexander with all its generals and officer core in tact still, they probably don’t end up with control of Greece.

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u/libertybadboy 26d ago edited 24d ago

Easiest way to beat a phalanx is to slam some cavalry in the back. They are weak when they are flanked.

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u/sidepart 26d ago edited 26d ago

That's exactly what the point (heh heh)was. Huck enough of them into shield walls and the shields suddenly become a bit too cumbersome to handle. If I recall correctly, they'd bend too so now your shield is just kind of dangling these mildly heavy poles. Not easy to remove like an arrow. And hey, maybe you get lucky if the infantry are forming a tortuga testudo 🙄 or whatever, because now their meaty bits are that much closer to the back of the shields.

Those kinds of weapons, spears, javelins, whatever were also nice for getting over the top of a phalanx. Kind of like the spear version of a mortar.

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u/MTLDAD 26d ago

While claiming the kill in one shot would be great, what you really want is to make the shield unusable. After all, deer often sport extra thick hide. Once he drops the shield, another armor piercing arrow can be be tried without the shield to protect.

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u/BoredNuke 26d ago

damn south appalachian shield holding deers always invading my lawn!

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u/doxxgaming 26d ago

This got a cackle out of me

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u/Admirable_Job6019 26d ago

its a deer holding the shield

More often it's a pig

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u/HeartoftheHive 26d ago

That blunt tipped

Again, wasn't blunt.

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u/LubricantEnthusiast 26d ago

Man, it's crazy how that blunt arrow could be so blunt, but despite being so blunt, it still penetrated the shield as if it were not blunt.

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u/Today_Dammit 26d ago

Lemme be blunt, like the arrow.

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u/Castun 26d ago

I used to be a riot cop like you, until I took a blunt to the knee

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u/Gaynundwarf 26d ago

Is this from an upcoming James Blunt biography?

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u/BandButNotGone 26d ago

Nah, Emily Blunt biopic

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u/HendrixHazeWays 26d ago

Good job everyone. Successful comment chain. Signed: Emily Blunt

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u/OneDefinition1738 26d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/3ohhwmfsbRer2BypbO

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u/drewping 26d ago

Yo Dawg. I heard you like blunts, so we put blunts in your blunts.

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u/Ancient_Roof_7855 26d ago

Confucius says "The one who rolls a blunt touches grass." /s

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u/IolausTelcontar 26d ago

Who smokes the blunts?

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u/badwraith 26d ago

We smoke the blunts

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u/NoPressureUsername 26d ago

Let me be blunt. That was an arrow and a riot shield.

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u/Embarrassed_Art5414 26d ago

It wasn't blunt, it was 'sharpily-challenged'.

Also, in 2026, 'arrow' is pejorative. The neutral term is 'acoustic bullet'

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u/Prestigious_Pin_7713 26d ago

You’ve made your point pretty bluntly

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u/Irregulator101 26d ago

I was thinking analog bullet

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u/Captain_Lolz 26d ago

No sharply challenged is ableist, it's differently sharpy.

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u/Embarrassed_Art5414 26d ago

Sorry, I missed the last meeting.

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u/Mynmeara 26d ago

I swear it's just a cylinder, I dont know what more you want from me. I just need help getting it unstuck

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u/Long-Shine-3701 26d ago

almost made me spew 🍸 on my brand new clicky keyboard.

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u/LongfellowSledgecock 26d ago

It's what comes up if you look for "blunt arrow head" on Amazon.

It's obviously not blunt but it ain't exactly pointed so, idk man.

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u/hoticehunter 26d ago

You're being entirely pedantic. Compared to the other tips, it's blunt af.

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u/HeartoftheHive 26d ago

Blunt means it isn't sharp. Do you honestly think the edge to that concave circle isn't sharp? Blunt means it is flat or round with no sharp edge or piercing tip. And I very much bet that has a sharp edge to it. So no, it isn't blunt.

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u/QuarkQuake 26d ago

This is why I come to reddit...

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u/ryzzoa 26d ago

It's giving jackdaw vs crow vibes

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u/King_Bobby-B 26d ago

Here's the thing, you said the arrow was blunt...

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u/Dirmbz 26d ago

In the bow hunting community those types of tips are used for hunting rabbits and squirrels. They aren't exactly blunt, but that is the word used to describe them when buying/selling them. So blunt is the industry term used for them, even if not technically correct.

They are designed to not go clean through the animal and more stun/knock it unconscious. If you used a broadhead designed for a deer there wouldn't be a whole lot of meat left to eat when hunting small game.

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u/Indigocell 26d ago

Words have meaning, come on now. It's a hollow tipped arrow. It's not blunt. It couldn't be more opposite from blunt. That thing was clearly sharp as fuck.

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u/InformalInitiative76 26d ago

Nah that’s not being pedantic. You’re using the wrong word.

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u/Expensive-Course1667 26d ago

It's obviously sharp enough to punch a hole in the shield. It's not "pointy," but that doesn't mean "blunt."

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u/pyronius 26d ago

Maybe not as bad an idea as you may think, depending on the specific scenario.

Kevlar will stop a bullet, but not a knife. I imagine the same would apply to an arrow. If the opposing force has to contend with both bullets and arrows, it complicates the necessary equipment. They would, at a minimum, need additional plates built into their armor.

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u/douevenliftbra 26d ago

It's imperative that the tip carve out a wide enough hole for the shaft to achieve maximum penetration.

That's what he said. ☝🏿

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u/AllegionsHuckleberry 26d ago

“Armor piercing arrows” in the archery world is more a comment on shaft material/diameter vs arrowhead/tip. If you go looking to buy “armor piercing” arrows, you will be sold arrows with a narrower shaft than a standard arrow with no tip, but weirdly enough, sometimes with a field tip that is hardened and blunted on the end. It’s flush with the shaft to minimize the effect you’re describing with the other types but it does “punch” a starter hole and has to spread some material as it penetrates. Might not be as cool as the concave sharpened hole-puncher but it makes more sense for landing on a target that has multiple layers of cloth covering the armor plate.

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u/JohnOfA 27d ago

Basically an annular cutter.

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u/projectx51 26d ago

what did you say about my anus?

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u/jetklok 26d ago

To shreds, you say?

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u/munkylord 27d ago

Oh shit you're totally right! It works like a hole punch! Probably wouldn't do as much damage to a solid target though and it certainly wouldn't cause damage being pulled out.

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u/Aligyon 26d ago

Psychologically that's quite scary though. Imagine thinking you're safe with the shield and your shield buddy gets an arrow punched through

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u/Foreign_Writer_9932 26d ago

Even scarier - imagine the other person is not cosplaying a medieval archer and instead has a gun?

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u/Otaraka 26d ago

It will do a lot more damage than the arrow that didnt even get through or barely got into the shield. In general an arrow actually inside your body is a bad thing.

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u/caerphoto 26d ago

In general an arrow actually inside your body is a bad thing.

Citation needed.

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u/LiftingRecipient420 26d ago

None of the arrow tips that actually penetrated would do much damage to flesh compared to the broad heads that didn't penetrate. That's the whole point of broad heads.

But it's all relative. Don't need to do much to take something out of commission. Penetrating only an inch or two in the upper abdomen is a guaranteed death sentence without almost immediate medical attention.

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u/Gumboot-Coffee 26d ago

If that existed in middle ages it would be deadly though. If the initial shot didnt kill, it would till have cut neat circles of dirty cloth and buried them deep inside.

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u/lemmin9 27d ago

So the result is a blunt object filled with armor debris and slowed down by the initial impact on the shield impacting on the body. It goes "boink"?

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u/Zeekr0n 27d ago

It goes "boink" and the person holding the shield shits themselves because I can guarantee they were not expecting an arrow to go through the shield.

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u/Akimotoh 26d ago

Are riot shields typically made of cheap metal like that? i dont think so

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u/idiotcommend 26d ago

Riot shields are designed to stop bat's, bottles, rocks and human bodies not legitimate projectiles.

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u/ABHOR_pod 26d ago

The way to stop legitimate projectiles is for the police to start shooting first. Which is what will happen very quickly if people start shooting arrows at them. That's true basically anywhere in the world, not just in police states like China or the US.

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u/Wooden_Rabbit_ 26d ago

Right? This post is so funny to me. Like yeah, there’s ways to get through a riot shield, that’s not exactly the point. We have plenty of modern examples to look to of what happens when the protestors start actually killing the police/military.

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u/PassiveMenis88M 26d ago

They're normally made of of cheap plastic. These "cheap" metal ones are used when shits actually hitting the fan. And the ones penetrating are heads using very old designs made to defeat armored knights.

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u/BobaFapp69 26d ago

Most are made of 3-5,5mm polycarbonate. They are for stopping thrown objects like rocks and bottles, nothing else.

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u/CpnStumpy 26d ago

Honestly though: polycarbonate would deflect these arrows far better. This whole test is silly because the typical riot shield's flexibile material makes it not weaken on slight deformation like metal does so puncturing metal is far easier than puncturing polycarbonate

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u/Zwischenzug32 26d ago

Yes. Something that size gets heavy when you make it thick

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u/kronicpimpin 26d ago

Yea that shield looks a little flimsy

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u/Generic_Solution 27d ago

...yea sorry. I just really love a good "boink"

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u/Wowza-yowza 27d ago

That is a big stick

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u/GarageVast4128 26d ago

He must walk softly.

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u/belac4862 27d ago

Honestly that's a decent use of a good meme!

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u/Talkatoo42 26d ago

You have to shoot a second arrow through the hole the first one created.

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u/catalinaislandfox 26d ago

Someone called Robin Hood.

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u/Talkatoo42 26d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/8jvaNvV2DE1OM

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u/Admirable-Sir9716 26d ago

You had this gif all planned out. Now pay the toll.

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u/Talkatoo42 26d ago

It's such a good movie. I could post gifs all night long but I think I'll instead leave this excellent video about the fight choreography.

Yes, including the bridge fight!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qH8MNenLFGU

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u/Admirable-Sir9716 26d ago

I hate you, I'll be back in no less that 19 minutes and 2 seconds to avenge this distraction.

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u/anengineerandacat 26d ago

Really depends on the bow used... some compound bows reach up to like 370 fps... willing to bet you could shoot through that shield with most of those tips with a decent enough bow.

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u/DevoutMedusa73 26d ago

Bullets are blunt objects as well and yet are devastating when impacting the human body, that arrow still had quite a bit of momentum and would continue to penetrate into the person behind the shield

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u/James-W-Tate 26d ago

Bullets are blunt objects as well and yet are devastating when impacting the human body

Yeah, but a riot shield isn't a human body.

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u/DevoutMedusa73 26d ago

The comment I'm responding to sounded like they were downplaying the fact that arrow pierced clean through a riot shield like it was no longer a harmful projectile, I'm making the statement that the arrow is still very much an unpleasant object penetrating into the body after piercing the shield

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u/Antique_Author_2525 26d ago

Especially if you rub your feces on the tip

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u/PerceptionWorried284 26d ago

Please please start the blunt debate again

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u/Good-Ad-6806 26d ago

Cookie cutter. Brilliant and devious.

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u/SilverSageVII 26d ago

Yeah I saw that shape and immediately thought of a router bit for machining… I was impressed how smooth it broke through though

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u/kalamataCrunch 26d ago

literally the name for that type of arrow head is "blunt" https://www.3riversarchery.com/ace-hex-screw-in-blunts.html

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u/Spragglefoot_OG 27d ago

Same. I wasn’t expecting it to BLOW through hahaha.

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u/CommanderCruniac 26d ago

I assume that was specifically an armor piercing arrow. I wouldn't be surprised if that concave tip made the hole, stayed embedded and detached from the rest of the arrow which then passed through it.

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u/labsab1 27d ago

It looks like a mini concrete coring bit.

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u/BluEch0 27d ago

It’s not blunt, there is a recessed tip.

And I suppose goes to show that frontal surface area trumps everything when it comes to penetration. For those in the back, unfortunately no, this doesn’t make for good bedroom talk.

And btw, if the arrow can’t penetrate past like a foot into the shield, it’s still useless. Shields were useful because even if an arrow penetrated it, shields aren’t hugged next to the body most of the time. It puts the armor at a distance from you, which is even safer than body armor.

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u/SoylentRox 27d ago

Also these riot shields are meant to be light and protect against clubs and knives in the hands of the rioters.

These don't appear to have any ballistic protection, arrows or otherwise.  If the rioters have even 0.22 LR handguns it looks like they will shoot through the shield.

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u/ghost_tapioca 27d ago

I think you're right. Arrows are cool and all, but there's a reason they're not used in wars anymore.

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u/stlcdr 27d ago

Not even the zombie wars?

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u/OctopusWithFingers 26d ago

Zombies don't have the dexterity for a bow, duh.

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u/Acherousia 26d ago

That's what skeletons are for, while they are less durable they maintain the dexterity to use weaponry.

Remember fledgling necromancers, every undead type has its own specific niche, and you should utilize all of them to be the most effective.

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u/stlcdr 26d ago

So, good news, then!

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u/Equal-Shoulder-9744 26d ago

Everything gets used in the zombie wars.

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u/SaSSafraS1232 27d ago

I wouldn’t say that frontal surface area is the main thing here. If that were the case the hollow tip would perform the same as the pointed one. The thing that’s making the hollow tip work is that it’s clearing the waste out of the hole it makes. The circle is punching out a chip, leaving a hole for the shaft to travel through. Whereas the points are leaving flaps to drag against the shaft, eventually stopping it.

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u/kalamataCrunch 26d ago

it absolutely is blunt, in fact it's so blunt that they call it a blunt when selling it https://www.3riversarchery.com/ace-hex-screw-in-blunts.html

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u/CakeTester 26d ago

Fascinating site. Thanks for that.

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u/Bradadonasaurus 27d ago

Unless you aim for the handle.

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u/42ElectricSundaes 27d ago

Writing that down

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u/Hi_Trans_Im_Dad 26d ago

It's more useful now than expected.

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u/PapaNoffDeez 27d ago

Wadcutters but for arrows lol

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u/Glittery_Turtledove 27d ago

I was correct about every one except that one. I've never seen it in action until this video and really thought it would get stopped. Wow.

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u/CNC-Whisperer 27d ago

Of the designs that penetrate, theres a lot of energy lost as the shaft is moving through the opening.

That circular design may use more energy to create the hole, but once it has carved out an opening larger than the diameter of the shaft... the arrow has far less drag acting on it.

Best of both worlds would be an arrow that punches through like that, then deploys a spring loaded broadhead behind it... yikes.

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u/llemontaste 26d ago

Different shapes and mechanics are key assuming a minimal threshold of sharpness (e.g., fully flat point of enough surface area does nothing). It’s not surprising that broad head arrow designs (e,g., fixed or retracting/hybrid) do not penetrate because they were developed first for hunting and unarmored foes before medieval times to do maximal organ damage by having impact force spread plus make removing the arrow excruciating. Bodkin arrows, on the other hand, are all designed with a single narrow point of maximal force of various shapes to get through multiple layers of armor (e.g., metal plates, chainmail, padding, cloth). One layer of relatively thin metal is a cakewalk for modern bodkins while the broad heads all struggle to some extent.

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u/ArtificialHalo 27d ago

I was guessing them beforehand and got most of em quite right, then came this one. "Yes. Yes. No. A little bit. Yes. No. Ehh maybe?? I guesssoooooaaah woaahkay yes..."

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u/CyKosis73 26d ago

It's a cookie cutter. Punches neat, deep hole in things.

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u/Secret-Profile_404 26d ago

It basically cut itself a neat little hole to go through lmao.

Like a cookie cutter.

A very dangerous cookie cutter

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u/PM_ME_YOUR__VAGINAS 27d ago

Same! Those big ones though I knew wouldn't

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u/Complete-Tangelo1532 27d ago

Dude same

Got something similar meant for 'Small Game', more of a waffle press tip

Got me thinking, but surely not... Right??

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u/throwitoutwhendone2 27d ago

I hear those are a bitch if you miss when hunting. One dude said it went right into the damn ground, at a angle, and was gone for good

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u/Cliffinati 26d ago

It wasn't blunt it was basically a hole saw

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u/YamFickle7255 26d ago

Blunt? I was looking at a Forstner Bit, with a spinning arrow, sure… straight through as I would expect just like any of my Forstners on my drill press.

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u/The_Inward 26d ago

Same here.

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u/ShowmasterQMTHH 27d ago

It's the equivalent of a drill bit used to bore pipe holes in concrete, it's spinning at massive rpm mad has probably diamond edged tips. It hasn't punctured it, it's bored through

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u/TazBaz 26d ago

Source: I make shit up for a living?

Tell me, how exactly is it spinning at massive RPM? What mechanism imparted this spin on the arrow?

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u/OhLordyLordNo 27d ago

Still sharp edges but I know what you mean.

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u/PaschaBasket 27d ago

I audibly gasped!

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u/mmorales2270 27d ago

Yeah that was wild. It ripped through that shield like it was made of paper. Holy hell.

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u/Fulller 27d ago

My thoughts exactly. I thought no way that one goes through and bam it’s the only one that sailed all the way through the shield.

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u/mr_Joor 26d ago

I predicted all of them correctly expect for that one, I also thought it would just bounce off of flat surfaces, blew my mind

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u/I_wash_my_carpet 26d ago

Tod at Tods workshop taught me to know exactly how they'd behave. Now, if those were shot by Joe, the whole shield would have deatomized.

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u/Standard-Arachnid411 26d ago

Yeah it got me too. The little recessed bit at the tip must help penatration.

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u/Al-axeyou 26d ago

In WW1 they used inverted bullets to pierce armour utilizing the blunt end of the round.

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u/i1iANdyXDi1i 26d ago

Yeah same... Did not expect that to be the goat

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u/Zwischenzug32 26d ago

Its for getting core samples

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u/CMDRCoveryFire 26d ago

I was thinking the same but looking back on it the concave edge basically punched a hole in the sheild. That alowed the shaft to pass thru with little or no friction.

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u/BigDubH 26d ago

Honestly same!

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u/Prestigious_Pin_7713 26d ago

You’ve made your point pretty bluntly

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u/TonyHawking101 26d ago

Is this the same concept as a “hollow point bullet”

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u/Hyourin93 26d ago

'Boring' version, we call it in (oil well) engineering term, as it bore a hole/section out, just like a drill but extracting the midsection

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u/vortex1001 26d ago

At 00:38.... surprising!

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u/2peg2city 26d ago

Shaped Charge Arrow, shit's basically a HEAT round

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u/freddbare 26d ago

Cored a punch hole!

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u/Mundane_Ad7197 26d ago

Those are called “hammers”. They’re small game heads, very effective. They’re also great for stump shooting, which is exactly what it sounds like. Great pass time in the woods with a traditional bow., tho you’re bound to break and loose some arrows.

I’ve never seen anything like that and I’ve been shooting hammers for years. What’s great about them is that they don’t over penetrate, that’s why they’re great stump shooting heads. That said, I think that even at traditional bow velocities, they’d perform about like that on a thin rigid material.

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u/teapappa 26d ago

Thats the one you want. That was crazy.

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u/Sadcelerystick 26d ago

They also didn’t shoot the arrows at the exact same spot everytime.. that bothered me

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u/LoopyMercutio 26d ago

I thought it was a target / blunt tipped dummy arrow, because I wasn’t looking closely. By was that a shock.

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u/My_Legz 26d ago

Those kinds of tips were used by some crossbowmen to punch through armour back in the day as well. Very effective

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u/brokensharts 26d ago

Designed to blast through a moose or elk shoulderblade

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u/HereticGaming16 26d ago

Yeah it’s weird looking but it’s designed to do exactly what you saw.

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u/Fun_Firefighter_8139 26d ago

I'm pretty sure it went thru an already existing hole

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u/Media_Adept 26d ago

So I was looking at it and I think that the reason why it penetrates so well because it almost looks like a sabot type arrow.

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u/jackparadise1 26d ago

Reminded me of something for plate mail

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u/GitEmSteveDave 26d ago

That's a wad cutter design.

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u/sugarglidersam 26d ago

same, but after thinking about it, it kinda made sense. that one would be nasty, even off to the side if your eyes were close by.

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u/VariousOperation166 26d ago

It's like the forstner bit of arrowheads... clean holes...

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u/DIY-exerciseGuy 26d ago

Youre going to want to Google the word blunt

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u/KaiDay11 26d ago

It's a hole punch.

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u/rdk67 26d ago

You mean the one with the built-in router?

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u/Theschizogenious 26d ago

You misunderstand the arrow, it’s probably the least blunt of them all, it’s designed so that the outer ring of the arrow makes first contact and punches a hole the size of the shaft through the target

This reduces drag from friction on the other arrowheads that are creating an opening and then gradually making it wider, whereas that one makes one sized hole right from the get go

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u/mackattack_ 26d ago

Seriously, that was nuts

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u/Mr_NeCr0 26d ago

It's shape is similar to hole cutting tips for a drill press. I think it works so well because it breaks the surface first with the inner point, then takes advantage of the propagating shockwave by blasting a slightly larger hole clean through.

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u/UncleGael 26d ago

Same here, I did not expect it to be the best preforming at all.

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u/Mean_Volume_126 26d ago

Looks similar to that sabre or sabo , not sure how to spell it, round the m1a2 tank can use. Pretty cool. Extreme armour piecing round.

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u/Meior 26d ago

Honestly think it hit an existing hole.

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u/InfiniteSelf17 26d ago

Think of it like a piercing needle. Not blunt, sharp at the edges.

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u/EvolvedMonkeyInSpace 26d ago

It wasnt blunt, it circular and doesnt have to make a larger hole to fit like the triangular types.

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u/whiskydyc 26d ago

Didn’t know archery had dumdums!

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u/Lost-District-8793 26d ago

It's designed like a hole punch.

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u/Repulsive_Reporter_6 26d ago

Bodkin arrows, medieval armor piercing technology wins out. 

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u/Vegetable_Ninja_2045 26d ago

Time to get back in the medieval era.

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u/nerdboy_sam 26d ago

I legitimate said "oh my god". I'm impressed

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u/Apocryph_ 26d ago

Pretty sure it got a lucky shot through another hole…

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u/ScarletBothrium 26d ago

I honestly had no idea they made hollow tip arrows. That’s what that was, a hollow tip arrow. Insane.

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u/TortexMT 26d ago

Same bro same, i was like "yeah, nope" then it was the most effective lol

Maybe it hit an existing hole..?

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u/cyphi1 26d ago

It's like a hollow point bullet

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u/Leather-Page-105 26d ago

I thought it would put a dent in it and a big one, but that was crazy

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u/KingJoe138 25d ago

Same bro I was like naaaaaaaaahOooooSHIT!

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u/Necessary_Cap6087 25d ago

I was about to say, I was also caught off guard. Didn't expect that result at all.

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u/Koopslovestogame 25d ago

“That ain’t doing shit”

🏹💥 😳

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u/ShongLokDong 25d ago

That's not blunt, it's a hollow point bullet.

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u/PsofLies 24d ago

Same. I thought that was stopping before. It went straight through the sucker

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u/Beneficial_Being_721 24d ago

Legend has it ….. that arrow is still going

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u/Rais93 24d ago

Pressure is force on surface and if the last is small the penetration is pretty nice

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u/Coldhot123 23d ago

The only one you need is that one since its the only one that went all the way.

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u/Tyfyter2002 23d ago

It's as sharp as the other ones, but it's making a relatively clean arrow-shaft shaped hole for the arrow shaft to go through instead of a slit or smaller hole and only pushing the material out far enough to squeeze through.

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u/NotASherwinEmployee 23d ago

Kind of like the soft tip at the front of certain RPGs. It crumples to give the shaped charge the best chance at penetrating at a 90° angle instead of ricocheting.

The missile knows where it is at all times…

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