Crescent Moon Arrow Test

Testing the rope cutters I made...and the replacement rope cutter. More on that in the video. It was fun. I'll do more stuff like this. Really enjoyed this one. Have to get Steve C in on this, too! He's looking forward to shooting these. Thanks to Bill for being a good sport!
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Opening music: Retrobem la nostra música CD nº 20, Coral Catedralícia de València, 2002. Public Domain.
Outro music: Manuel Forniés, Guitar Walking Bass. Blues in F, 9-2-2024, Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya (ESMUC). creativecommon...

[@Susikohmelo]

In Japanese archery there is a very similar kind of head known as karimata (雁股). They allegedly were used both for war and large game hunting. The tips tended to be slightly more angled forwards maybe 3-4cm wide on average, not as big as yours but very similar shape overall.
It's important to note is that the bows these arrowheads were used with are military bows. We're talking about 80 -150lbs drawn back to 32-34 inches. Overpenetration even against large animals like horses is quite likely, and an arrow that passes through is an arrow that didn't exert all of it's energy into the target. So it can actually sometimes be preferable to have lower penetration.
That being said this is mostly just conjecture and to my knowledge hasn't been properly tested.

[@rustybow7293]

Thanks for this! I'll look up an image of one and try this more formally. I've been using a 55# in the videos lately but I also shoot w/ 90# & 110# so that might make for a better video later.

[@gozer87]

I know some folks claim these are rigging cutting arrows, but maybe they are for birds or small game in the grass.

[@boogboog8097]

Birds like duck or geese was what i read idea being it causes a big enough wound that it cant fly away and end up on the water dying like from a pass through.

[@rustybow7293]

Small game makes sense to me. I had thought maybe for hamstringing larger game, or possibly horses to take down riders in battle, but I found no historical mention of that so far.