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Warbow FPS?
llkinak:
--- Quote ---IMO I would rather stop someone by literally knocking them back with an arrow than killing, b/c the kill is not instant.
I wonder if you could hunt with a warbow? use some big arse broadheads, maybe 2 inches wide or so?
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Hi, squirrelslinger
I doubt you'll be knocking anybody back with an arrow, it simply doesn't happen that way. Neither does it happen with bullets, for that matter. With light weight projectiles such as arrows and bullets, if they don't penetrate they tend to bounce off in whatever direction the various factors acting on them dictate. You might very well knock over a steel plate or something similar, but people wearing armor who are shot with projectiles much more powerful than arrows aren't knocked back...they're just bruised and sore as all get out.
Regarding hunting with a warbow, I agree with adb. It could be done but it shouldn't be. Warbows are very inaccurate compared to modern compounds, or even recurves, to the point where for 99% of us hunting with one would almost certainly be unethical.
Just my two cents. ;)
Lance.
adb:
I totally agree. These Hollywood images of people being flung backwards after they're shot, like they've been jerked by a rope are pure rubbish. Being shot with a handgun, having a projectile weight of maybe 300 grains is not going to move a 200 pound man anywhere. It will more than likely pass through and kill anyone standing behind them. Anyone who hunts deer with a rifle will know this.
Lukasz Nawalny:
It was very light warbow but I have few results http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWrBfJyBCwQ
adb:
Why don't you pull it to 30" and see what it'll really do?
Lukasz Nawalny:
It was maybe max 29 ". I dont shoot usually strong bows, I have trouble with my arm and I had problems pull this bow.
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