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Title: Heavy arrow meets a phone book! (pic heavy)
Post by: frassettor on September 10, 2012, 05:58:00 PM
We recieved a new phone book today in the mail, so I was trying to figure out what to do with the old one.
There has been alot of penetration tests on Tradgang, and I enjoyed them, and they got my curiosity up. I realize this is not a "realastic" test, but for my own satisfaction, I wanted to give it a try, and thought I would share the results...

My specs are ...

BOW: 64" 61# Black Widow PLX

ARROW: CX 350 cut to 31" BOP, 100 brass insert

Broadhead: 190 Grizzly El Grande/100 steel adapter..TOTAL ARROW WEIGHT 781 GRAINS

SHOT: 20 yards (60 ft)

The results....

(http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/nn125/frassettor/098.jpg)
(http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/nn125/frassettor/090.jpg)
 (http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/nn125/frassettor/092.jpg)
(http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/nn125/frassettor/096.jpg)
(http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/nn125/frassettor/093.jpg)
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Post by: Brianlocal3 on September 10, 2012, 06:00:00 PM
Cool pictorial, thanks for taking time to do this.
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Post by: VTer on September 10, 2012, 06:03:00 PM
what were the specs on the phone book?
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Post by: frassettor on September 10, 2012, 06:07:00 PM
QuoteOriginally posted by VTer:
what were the specs on the phone book?
It's a hair over an inch and a half thick
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Post by: JEFF B on September 10, 2012, 06:11:00 PM
WELL YA WONT HAVE ANY PROB AT PUTTING IT THROUGH A DEER   :clapper:    :clapper:    :clapper:
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Post by: oldskool on September 10, 2012, 06:20:00 PM
just hope the deer don't start wearing telephone books
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Post by: Mongo on September 10, 2012, 06:51:00 PM
I guess it didn't matter if it was left or right bevel. ;)
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Post by: JamesKerr on September 10, 2012, 06:54:00 PM
Thats quite a bit of paper to penetrate! I just want to know how you plan on cooking that beast?
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Post by: pamike on September 10, 2012, 08:29:00 PM
do the same thing with a 450 gr arrow or a 550 gr arrow to see the difference......please....
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Post by: Charlie Lamb on September 10, 2012, 09:27:00 PM
Where's the "J" shaped hole?
  :D
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Post by: BrownA5 on September 10, 2012, 09:39:00 PM
Great demo!  Will have to try that with my Zwickey eskimos and see what the result is....
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Post by: ironmike on September 10, 2012, 10:29:00 PM
that says it all!
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Post by: iohkus on September 11, 2012, 12:01:00 AM
Close Call ..............  :bigsmyl:
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Post by: Mike Most on September 11, 2012, 09:28:00 AM
it reminds me of the hogs shield.....tough
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Post by: Andy Cooper on September 11, 2012, 10:34:00 AM
QuoteOriginally posted by BrownA5:
Great demo!  Will have to try that with my Zwickey eskimos and see what the result is....
Looks like a challenge for an online penetration contest is being issued!    :D

We just got 2 new phone books and the season appears to be open...at least there's a use for them now!
Title: Re: Heavy arrow meets a phone book! (pic heavy)
Post by: frassettor on September 11, 2012, 12:05:00 PM
QuoteOriginally posted by Andy Cooper:
 
QuoteOriginally posted by BrownA5:
Great demo!  Will have to try that with my Zwickey eskimos and see what the result is....
Looks like a challenge for an online penetration contest is being issued!     :D  

We just got 2 new phone books and the season appears to be open...at least there's a use for them now! [/b]
Be sure to post the results...    :campfire:
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Post by: Dave Lay on September 11, 2012, 12:27:00 PM
QuoteOriginally posted by pamike:
do the same thing with a 450 gr arrow or a 550 gr arrow to see the difference......please....
i'd like to see that test as well,
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Post by: Brock on September 11, 2012, 12:43:00 PM
mmmmm maybe i will do one with my 200gr Grizzly Kodiaks on douglas fir shafts from similar poundage bow...  :)
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Post by: ericmerg on September 11, 2012, 12:50:00 PM
i'm going to do a test just like this with 3 different weights and a 2 blade vs 4 blade so 6 arrows does anyone want pics of that?
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Post by: TxAg on September 11, 2012, 12:55:00 PM
Yes
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Post by: stujay on September 11, 2012, 02:07:00 PM
X2 on more pics with various BH's and weights.
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Post by: champ38 on September 11, 2012, 07:41:00 PM
Like others , would love to see a side by side comparison with a couple lighter arrows.. 10 gpp, 9 gpp etc... thanks for posting, love testing myself.
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Post by: pamike on September 11, 2012, 09:08:00 PM
Me too!!!
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Post by: njloco on September 11, 2012, 09:13:00 PM
Ha ! Ha !, that aint no phone book, I'll send you a phone book from N.Y.C., now that's a phone book, you'd have to call it a Rhino book. ( just kidding ) good test !
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Post by: wihill on September 11, 2012, 09:32:00 PM
Man I looked through the reg book for an hour and STILL can't find season dates on "phone books".

  :knothead:  

I could loan you one of my light weight (485gr) arrows to send through one.  Come to think of it, we got in a pallet of phonebooks at work that are sitting around idle...

  :thumbsup:
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Post by: ericmerg on September 11, 2012, 09:35:00 PM
i'll be sending a 2216, a 2117,a weighted 2117 and a 2314 through my book 2" roughly 2 and 4 blades tonight
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Post by: ericmerg on September 11, 2012, 11:48:00 PM
update i cant do 4 arrow test anymore i shot the 2216 2 blade and got 1.5" pass through shot 2216 4 blade got.5" pass through

shot 2117 2 blade needed 60 pages more to break my book (2 inches thick)

shot 2117 4 blade needed 80 pages

shot weighted 2117 4 blade , 2" of pass through

shot weighted 2117 2 blade... and robinhooded the 4 blade....

also 70# at my draw bow


  (http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8445/7978555389_a9287a79b5.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/32969666@N08/7978555389/)

i cut through the the nock and uninock
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Post by: njloco on September 12, 2012, 10:07:00 PM
I hate when that happens !
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Post by: Schmidtster on September 13, 2012, 12:12:00 AM
oh man I'm totally trying that this week sometime!!!
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Post by: ericmerg on September 13, 2012, 12:24:00 AM
pick a spot more then 2" away dont break a good arrow like me
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Post by: Adam S. Daugherty on September 13, 2012, 10:01:00 AM
This my friends is a great example of the power of the coefficient of friction.  Also proves that smaller towns overall have less total frictional forces acting upon us than larger cities.

New rule to live buy.  Dont move to a town whose phone book is to thick to shoot your hunting arrow completely through.
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Post by: Archie on September 13, 2012, 11:57:00 AM
Adam, I think you've got something there...
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Post by: ericmerg on September 13, 2012, 04:06:00 PM
yeah if you cant shoot an arrow through your book with a 70# bow and a heavy arrow its too big of a book
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Post by: BowHuntingFool on September 13, 2012, 04:21:00 PM
Thats awesome!
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Post by: **DONOTDELETE** on September 13, 2012, 06:38:00 PM
Now squirt some armor-all on your blades and grease up your arrow too and you might start getting a pass though...

That has really gotta dull up the old broadheads eh?
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Post by: frassettor on September 13, 2012, 06:53:00 PM
QuoteOriginally posted by Kirkll:
Now squirt some armor-all on your blades and grease up your arrow too and you might start getting a pass though...

That has really gotta dull up the old broadheads eh?
That was a dull practice head, I wouldn't do that with a sharp one. All of my other heads are sharpened by Ron at KME. Then the  arrow might cut through it like butta!
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Post by: BenBow on September 14, 2012, 09:30:00 AM
Well here's what I came up with using 2 very different arrow weights. Both arrows fly true out of my bow. I want to do this with a better medium say 1/4" mds with a foot of foam behind it. This should give greater penetration which would give better numbers to work with. As it is it looks to me that penetration follows momentum pretty close. The 430 gr arrow is no slouch though. Just happens that the 708 gr @ 160 matches my mental computer.
I should mention that the 430 gr arrow had a sharp magnus 100 gr 2 blade broadhead and the 708 gr arrow had a sharp 250gr grizzly.
 Phone book = 1 3/8"
 
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Post by: Wallee on September 14, 2012, 10:31:00 AM
Loved this post! Would like to see some different ones similar to this!
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Post by: pamike on September 14, 2012, 05:54:00 PM
i feel an experiment coming on....
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Post by: Zbone on September 15, 2012, 01:38:00 PM
Cool stuff, thanx for sharing....

Looking forward to more pix....