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The Rich Outdoors

EP 276: Arrow Ballistics with David Hand

The Rich Outdoors

Cody Rich

Entrepreneurship, Marketing, Business, Sports, Wilderness

4.91.5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2018

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Today I am joined by David Hand of Ballistic Arrow Tech and Slash Arrows to chat about arrows and arrow ballistics. David is a Mechanical engineer with over 20 years of bowhunting and holds several patents on arrows used for hunting. David underwent a 5-year study of the ballistics of modern-day high-speed hunting arrows, that […]

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If you think of it in terms of ballistics, it takes three things to kill an animal.

0:04.0

You have to break the surface, which means you need to get past the hide, the bone, or whatever you need to get past,

0:10.0

because you've got to get to the internals.

0:12.0

Then the second thing you have to do is you have to get to the internals. And the second thing you have to do

0:14.8

is you have to make sure that you're perfectly straight on entry.

0:17.8

But the third thing you have to do

0:20.2

is you have to create some type of double shock.

0:23.2

That means that maybe two, three or four inches behind that broad head

0:27.0

after that era is fully stabilized.

0:29.5

You need to take the rest of that.

0:42.0

kinetic energy and momentum of that shot and get a second blast.

0:47.0

Welcome to the rich outdoors, where we break down the tips, tactics and strategies of hunting's greats.

0:52.0

To not only help you become better hunters, tactics and strategies of hunting's great.

0:53.0

To not only help you become better hunters,

0:55.0

but to motivate and inspire you between hunting adventures.

0:58.0

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1:01.0

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1:03.2

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