I carry five arrows when deer hunting, 4 boadheads for deer and a blunt tipped arrow for squirrels, rabbits, etc. It gives me very good practice to and from my deer stand and occasionaly, if I really dont think a deer is likely to show up, from the stand itself. Put it in the front half of their body and they are dead like that, but I am shooting 75 ft/lbs of KE. I shot a squirrel with a broadhead once to see what would happen, cut his lungs into perfect thirds and he ran 20 feet! But like I said that is just one incident I dont know what usually happens. I average about 10 squrrels a season like that but I have never actually gone hunting exclusively for them bow in hand. Then again, some of my deer stands might make better squirrel stands...