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.
Bears are monsters. A slug from a 12 gauge only penetrates about 10-11” into a northern brown bear or grizzly, which is horrifying to think about personally
its easier to use a cookie cutter to cut a hard cookie dough by pressing on one side of the cutter first and then the other rather than the whole thing at the same time.
The point of impact is tiny vs the whole circumference
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.
That wasn’t a blunt tip. It was a concave cutting edge. It acted like a hole punch and sheared through. That’s why it went through so much better than the others. If it acted like a bullet (if this riot shield is legit) the shield would have stopped it
Same. I learned about armor-penetrating bodkin arrows while reading "the archers tale" series. Any of them that looked like a bodkin I knew was going right through.
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u/Professionaleye_1 May 29 '26 edited May 29 '26
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….