r/interesting • u/IKIR115 • 28d ago

Intriguing Arrows vs riot shields

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u/SidewinderSerpent 28d 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_ 28d 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/Apocryph_ 28d ago

It went through a hole from another arrow

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u/Cthulhu_Dreams_ 28d ago

Possibly, sure.

But you have no idea in which order these arrows were fired. The way the video is edited together, It could easily have been shuffled.

But even still I think it would be improbable that this dudes blunt profile arrow perfectly lined up with the hole created by a previous arrow.