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Quote from: gordydog on December 30, 2025, 07:47:31 PMI like the discontinued 1918 autumn orange from my 51# Big River longbow. Shot many bucks and a bear with these and they usually bend. Down to less than a dozen now.
Quote from: Roger Norris on January 01, 2026, 10:54:54 AMI love this thread.Talk to me about the 3:1 ratio. Why? Not just becasue Howard Hill said so....what is the physics? Why are so many broadheads roughly 3:1?I can't speak to actual physics and have no real scientific data there but I can't help think that maybe it has to do with a sweet spot where some crucial elements are satisfied, amounting to good penetration and adequate hemorrhaging to humanly put down critters and recover them. You figure, a short stubby head probably would not needle in and track the way a long pointy head would. And even though only 1 inch at the wide portion of the head, 3 inches of linear cutting edge is better than anything less than that..... more blade length riding through vitals. All this in the design that ALSO has to be in certain mass weight parameters to be useable! Restricted by only the material or metal suitable to make a head. Maybe anything longer than 3" and you create structural weaknesses? Flimsy prone to bending on bone? Wider than 1 or so inches and drag or friction negates some of the attributes of the long slender needle point? I'm inclined to think that it may have been stated not so much in raw science or physics but simply because Mr. Hill figured it the sweet spot as a result of real world testing and results yielded. This just me thinking on it
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