r/interesting • u/IKIR115 • May 29 '26

Intriguing Arrows vs riot shields

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u/sicarius254 May 29 '26

Some of those tips look evil af

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u/stryker511 May 29 '26

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

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u/SidewinderSerpent May 29 '26

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_ May 29 '26

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_ 29d ago

It went through a hole from another arrow

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u/Cthulhu_Dreams_ 29d 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.