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Dazv:

hi guys

just a quick one when shooting for heart and lungs of a deer and you just hoping that your broadhead hits between the ribs??? What happens when you take a shot and the point hits a rib dead on???

thank so much

Darren

Pat B:
Deer ribs are thin enough that if you hit it dead center, or even off to one side with a sharp broadhead and a relatively heavy arrow you should get plenty of penetration to kill the deer. You only need about 6" to 8" of penetration to get both lungs anyway. 

lowell:
My doe this year was my first killed with a stone point.  I shoot about 50# and the point broke a rib going in and hit a rib hard on the opposite side!

  If I had hit just one rib I think it may have been a pass through!!

 Ribs are the best place to hit a deer!! 8)

Dazv:
jeez you go through them i have butchered a few deer and i always thought the the point would just slide off the ribs. But thinking about it breaking a rib could be better because i guess it would take bone splinters in and cause more damage. What do you think?

gstoneberg:
Even on bone, broadheads cut more than break.  A rifle bullet creates shrapnel that causes much more damage, but not an arrow. If the broadhead's point doesn't strike the rib my belief is that it normally rides along the edge instead of cutting deeply into it.   If it centers the rib it's likely to cut a slit large enough for the arrow to slide through.  Either way, no shrapnel effect.

George

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