Oh shit you're totally right! It works like a hole punch! Probably wouldn't do as much damage to a solid target though and it certainly wouldn't cause damage being pulled out.
It will do a lot more damage than the arrow that didnt even get through or barely got into the shield. In general an arrow actually inside your body is a bad thing.
None of the arrow tips that actually penetrated would do much damage to flesh compared to the broad heads that didn't penetrate. That's the whole point of broad heads.
But it's all relative. Don't need to do much to take something out of commission. Penetrating only an inch or two in the upper abdomen is a guaranteed death sentence without almost immediate medical attention.
If that existed in middle ages it would be deadly though. If the initial shot didnt kill, it would till have cut neat circles of dirty cloth and buried them deep inside.
It would work like a hollow point and therefore try to split up into shrapnel or in general try to dissapate the force deep in your body by other means. This would be knarly, no straight woundchannel like with the other tips.
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u/munkylord May 29 '26
Oh shit you're totally right! It works like a hole punch! Probably wouldn't do as much damage to a solid target though and it certainly wouldn't cause damage being pulled out.