Crazy Deflection

[Beendare]

Guy shoots a moose broadside mid body and the BH hits ribs and circles back outside the hide on the same side of the body not making it into the chest cavity. EDIT- 3rd post has the whole video

I've seen where they take a 90deg turn and exit the body low or between the shoulder blade and ribs...this is another crazy one. It looks to be a short 3 blade head like a G2.

The only link I have to the vid is Facebook.HERE

 

[Beendare]

He says it's on his Youtube channel....I haven't found it yet

He has another one he shot in the shoulder with 2" of penetration that he killed later the next day....

 

[Beendare]

Here it is, 5 min in...they discuss possibilities of what happened, good video, worth a look

 

[Skerhunter]

Guy shoots a moose broadside mid body and the BH hits ribs and circles back outside the hide on the same side of the body not making it into the chest cavity. EDIT- 3rd post has the whole video

I've seen where they take a 90deg turn and exit the body low or between the shoulder blade and ribs...this is another crazy one. It looks to be a short 3 blade head like a G2.

The only link I have to the vid is Facebook.HERE

Thanks for sharing. I had my first bad deflection this year (90 degrees), hard to wrap your head around when you watch the fletchings burry right where you aimed.

 

[Beendare]

Guys are so wrapped up in their BH choice....with many focusing on one factor- bigger holes.

Seems like Deflections is a pretty important factor.

 

[dtrkyman]

I shot a doe whitetail broadside at 20 yards, definitely broadside as she was walking the edge of standing corn.

Arrow entered lungs and exited opposite side hip, crazy things happen when two moving objects hit one another! She definitely reacted to the shot! Small fixed head.


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[Trumpkin The Dwarf]

Guys are so wrapped up in their BH choice....with many focusing on one factor- bigger holes.

Seems like Deflections is a pretty important factor.

As a counterpoint… what data do you have to say wide heads deflect more than a narrow two blade? Seems like it’s more dependent on angle of blade edge relative bone than anything else… and that’s a shot angle variable.

 

[MallardSX2]

My wife shot a bear in Alberta a couple years back.

It was a 10x shot. Literally perfect.

We never found the bear.

Replayed that video 100 times and the arrow went in and literally went straight down. She got 1 lung..maybe.

If we didn’t have video, I NEVER would have believed that she hit it where she did and it didn’t die in 10 seconds.

She was super bummed.

Muzzy 4 blade
55 pound draw.

 

[Eastonsgrandpa]

All I can think is that the bow is out of tune and the arrow hitting at an angle, right on the edge of bone, and it forcing the arrow further into that trajectory.

These are the times when I believe a higher FOC would help pull the shaft through.

But who knows?

 

[ddowning]

I had a season full of poor deflections trying to shoot too weak of a spine on a new bow. I went to a stiffer spine and the problem was fixed. Nothing was changed but arrow spine.

 

[Beendare]

As a counterpoint… what data do you have to say wide heads deflect more than a narrow two blade? Seems like it’s more dependent on angle of blade edge relative bone than anything else… and that’s a shot angle variable.

When did I say that?

 

[Beendare]

I had a season full of poor deflections trying to shoot too weak of a spine on a new bow. I went to a stiffer spine and the problem was fixed. Nothing was changed but arrow spine.

I too think there are advantages to shooting a stiffer spine in a compound...in a trad bow we pretty much have to shoot the spine that tunes. In a compound, a stiffer spine for a hunt arrow tunes fine.

 

[Beendare]

My wife shot a bear in Alberta a couple years back.

It was a 10x shot. Literally perfect.

We never found the bear.

Replayed that video 100 times and the arrow went in and literally went straight down. She got 1 lung..maybe.

If we didn’t have video, I NEVER would have believed that she hit it where she did and it didn’t die in 10 seconds.

She was super bummed.

Muzzy 4 blade
55 pound draw.

My buddy, an ex ASA shooter shot a big whitetail from a tree stand at 25y and had the same thing happened. He hit the buck dead center and the arrow went straight down can out. We didn't find the buck...but the farmers woman friend shot the buck a week later and he saw the healing wound channel.

This guy can shoot...and tune a bow. He was shooting a Tekan mech head and he said the arrow was wobbling to the buck. We think one of his blades opened in flight and the arrow hit at an angle.

 

[Trumpkin The Dwarf]

When did I say that?

That was the implication of your statement that I quoted. My apologies if I misunderstood you.