Hey, someone who can stay on topic!
Is the second exit wound about tracking or about it being more lethal? I would rather have a giant wound channel that is going to hit more tissue, thus creating lethal shots where it may not have been with a smaller head. I don't believe having two holes in and of itself makes most bad hits more lethal.
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Again, if you want to think about things on an individual basis, you can concoct the perfect scenario where one broadhead kills faster than the other.
you’ve not offered any supporting evidence as to why you think an arrow stuck in a wound channel won’t impede blood flow or increase blood pressure enough to materially impact death and recovery rates.
no one has countered with good evidence to the contrary, although quite a bit has been mentioned to exist.
I aim farther forward than most bow hunters. I shoot a heavier than average arrow with small razor sharp cut on contact fixed heads. I’ve Based that decision on what I’ve learned from the data available to us, and in context of what I’ve experienced in the woods, seen other people experience in the woods.
My line of thinking is this:
If I hit where I’m aiming, the arrow will zip through easily. I’ll sever major plumbing, and the deer will not run far for two reasons: the arrow passed so easily he wont take off like lightning, and the blood pressure will drop so quickly, he can’t.
if I hit slightly too far forward, or the angle puts the opposite leg bone in arrow path, the arrow will get through the vitals easily. It may not pass completely through. But I’ll get two holes. I’ll sever major plumbing and the deer will not run far. He may be more jacked up because he has one or two broken legs, amd try to run far, but he’ll not get very far because of the broken legs and lack of blood pressure.
if I hit behind or below where I want to hit, I could maybe experience less blood hitting the ground than a wide cut mechanical. But I’ll trade the deer walking stopping and looking around and wondering what just happened over running as if it’s on fire from the slap of a mechanical blade opening on its rib cage. The deers lungs will fill up with blood, and it won’t be able to inflate them properly with two holes in its chest. Now it’s confused, losing blood pressure, and can’t breathe. I’d prefer all those things happening over having a major dose of adrenaline pumped into its brain prior to take off.
you may prefer different results.
but in 6 pages you haven’t offered anything besides your opinion on why you don’t think an arrow stuck in a wound channel impedes blood flow, and that a wide cut mechanical going halfway through a deer is better than a small fixed going all the way.
I laid the ground work for you to present the case in our first few exchanges. I suspect there’s little to no data to support your opinion. But its only fair to give you the opportunity to present it.
there’s ample evidence to support the theory that an arrow stuck in a wound channel will in fact impede bloodletting, speed up clotting, and increase pressure in the vascular system. It is not the exact experiment we’d like to see, but there’s a huge amount that can relate indirectly.
i don’t know where to find them, but I’ve seen two studies that show a strong correlation between there being two holes in the deer, and recovery rates. This could or could not show a strong correlation between blood trail quality and two holes. But you’d be missing the rest of the important things that happen to occur along with an arrow creating two holes in a deers chest.
I’m happy to spend some time looking them up. But I’ll wait until you present a single set of data supporting your disagreement with arrows stuck in wound channels not being a big deal.