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Broadhead toothy vs polished edge?
Tracker0721:
I used to like a file to sharpen my broadheads, old school and felt good. Would still shave. But once I learned to use diamond plates and ceramic and then stropping and jewelers rouge! Takes a while but in the end I have an edge that I feel can cut through multiple moose hides stacked up or a couple boar shields!
PEARL DRUMS:
Arrows kill animals by causing them to bleed to death, and fast. Scary sharp causes massive hemorrhaging and death. Trauma is what jagged edges create and can cause death as well, but nothing like straight up hemorrhaging will. The kind where you stick them right through the lungs and they have no idea what just happened, then about 5-10 seconds later the lights go out.
TSA:
Pearl man is right, as all the others above, a scalpel-sharp edge is better.
this is what i understand about it, and i am not referring to the drag being created by the cutting edge if it is serrated- cant comment on that.
but when the platelets are released to plug a damaged blood vessel, the greater the surface area of the damage- the greater the amt. released.
a sharp edge will create a smaller surface area cut- kind of like comparing road rash with a broken glass cut. so bleeding will be more profuse with a smooth clean cut.
however having said this, i think that the trauma is so massive with any broadhead in the right place, i honestly dont know if at that stage more or less platelets would make a difference.
but for all the difference , i think i will stick to a good clean, smooth sharp edge.
mullet:
When my arrows are scary sharp I love it when I hit an animal, clean pass through, it flinches and then goes back to eating until it falls over.
Mesophilic:
--- Quote from: mullet on March 25, 2018, 08:33:10 am ---When my arrows are scary sharp I love it when I hit an animal, clean pass through, it flinches and then goes back to eating until it falls over.
--- End quote ---
I heard of this from several hunters and it's the kind of kill I want to experience sime day.
I know this is a bit off topic, but from my experiences hunting, raising livestock, and butchering, meat quality is much better when the animal is calm.
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