if a single bevel hits horizontally...

[deermaster1]

it it hits the shoulder blade horizontally, will it still split using all the single bevel torque?  this is considering you have enough power to split it if it hit vertically.  does that mean there is only a 50 50 chance that narrow cutting width, and single bevel will be put to use, only if it hits bone, and hits it vertically?  i have no idea, just wondering what you opinion is.

[Dave2old]

I have seen Ashby's photos, and others, of single bevels "busting" every type of bone in various ways. Whether a shoulder blade is split horizontally, as in some published photos, or is merely cracked in any direction, the result is the same -- the bone opens up, easing the arrow's passage, netting better penetration. The point isn't to destroy bones, but to get penetration through them, which torquing single bevels do better than punch-through double bevels, not matter how they hit. Hundreds of repetitions of testing by Ashby prove this nicely. Dave

[Java Man]

I would think, that since the arrow and head are spinning WITH energy, the bones would split in their weakest direction.  Just a guess.

Gregg

[hormoan]

Maybe Ed, will weigh in. Although I think     :eek:  , Both Dave and Gregg are correct.

Doc may weigh in, then again maybe not for a while. My last e-mail from him went like this on 2/15

Yipee! I free to travel! Being stuck in one spot is just NOT ME!!!!
 
I'm going to be on the road from tomorrow AM until I arrive in Georgia. I'll have to wait until I get there to send you a phone number; not sure yet with whom I'll be staying when I first arrive there. (I hate it when everyone wants you to come stay there first ... and you're the one who has to make the choice.)
 
Ed


That's funny stuff right there    :D