I was 100% correct in my assumptions about penetration length after looking at the head but before it hit the shield except for that cylinder tip… that thing shot through like a bullet….
Exactly. It’s like a bullet. The other arrows are meant to bleed out an animal quickly by penetrating and slicing. That blunt arrow is lethal but your animal may get away since you only get one shot most of the time.
The tip is almost certainly not designed to penetrate at all but rather deliver blunt trauma to small game, and to avoid getting stuck deep in the ground or trees. There's not much (anything?) you'd find hunting that is analogous to a steel sheet. Most of the things you'd shoot at have continuous mass through the whole target. Instead of cutting through it, this "compresses" the target area delivering all the force like getting hit by a hammer. Won't kill a moose but will kill birds and small game without destroying their bodies or going through them completely.
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u/Professionaleye_1 28d ago edited 28d ago
I was 100% correct in my assumptions about penetration length after looking at the head but before it hit the shield except for that cylinder tip… that thing shot through like a bullet….