Post by Ron on Jul 17, 2008 17:28:32 GMT -6
if a head is 1 1/8 wide, it will make a hole the same as any other 1 1/8 wide head with the same number of blades .................... BUT many fail to address the stretch factor prior to cutting due to the tip style of your broadhead.
Imagine this. take a pencil and push the eraser end into your flabby mid section. (even you guys with 6 pack abs can relate) You can push in pretty far and stretch your hide. Imagine that a set of blades started a half inch or so back from the eraser. At some point (if you pushed hard enough) the eraser end of the pencil would penetrate your hide and the blades would be cutting through all that stretched hide before passing through you. That would make for one awesome sized hole.
Ok, put the darn pencil down for a second. If that pencil had blades instead of an eraser, you would (Cut on Contact)and there would be no stretch factor and so the hole in the hide would be smaller. Now, once the hide is cut, it's pretty much a moot point (pun intended) and the head will make it's way through the rest of your body making a hole only as wide as the head because the internal organs don't give the resistance that hide does. The head will continue on until it reaches the hide on the other side where it will stretch and then cut again.
I bring this up because a large opening in the hide with all sorts of cool looking blood and stuff looks like a wicked hole made by the broadhead but what happens on the inside is where it counts. Also, lets not forget all the energy that is lost to stretching a hide vs cutting right through the hide. I think more and more broadhead makers are producing cut on contact heads because that simply penetrate better that cone, pyramid or faceted tips in front of the blades. Your thoughts?
Get that pencil out of your ear.
Imagine this. take a pencil and push the eraser end into your flabby mid section. (even you guys with 6 pack abs can relate) You can push in pretty far and stretch your hide. Imagine that a set of blades started a half inch or so back from the eraser. At some point (if you pushed hard enough) the eraser end of the pencil would penetrate your hide and the blades would be cutting through all that stretched hide before passing through you. That would make for one awesome sized hole.
Ok, put the darn pencil down for a second. If that pencil had blades instead of an eraser, you would (Cut on Contact)and there would be no stretch factor and so the hole in the hide would be smaller. Now, once the hide is cut, it's pretty much a moot point (pun intended) and the head will make it's way through the rest of your body making a hole only as wide as the head because the internal organs don't give the resistance that hide does. The head will continue on until it reaches the hide on the other side where it will stretch and then cut again.
I bring this up because a large opening in the hide with all sorts of cool looking blood and stuff looks like a wicked hole made by the broadhead but what happens on the inside is where it counts. Also, lets not forget all the energy that is lost to stretching a hide vs cutting right through the hide. I think more and more broadhead makers are producing cut on contact heads because that simply penetrate better that cone, pyramid or faceted tips in front of the blades. Your thoughts?
Get that pencil out of your ear.
