DemolitionRanch does a couple experiments:
Surprising results! I wish he would have done the tests on meat rather than a cinderblock. That binary explosive arrow was cool.
It’s like a poor-mans exploding assault arrow I blogged about a while back.
Thoughts?
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5 responses to “Explosive Tipped Arrows”
mike give him a call and tell him we want a re-do on a big roast beef!!….;)
Without a barrel to direct the bullet, it’s just a glorified firecracker.
That last one was cool. Surprised it detonated.
I used to put number 9 1/2 large rifle primers on the end of soft target arrows and shoot them at a brick wall, the were nice and loud, but otherwise useless. I always dreamed of putting a tuna can on the end of one of those with tannerite in it and a primer (difficult to explain how exactly) too see if it would explode. Never got around to that though as I’m not sure of the legality and I doubt it would fly very well
There is already at least one product I know of that does this with a .38/.357 shell on the end of an arrow. Its just a holder with a pin that contacts that primer upon a target strike. But that one at least provides a little case wall support so that the round shoots a little better than just going pop.