ORIGINAL: Matt / PA
Does the 3 blade cut as much surface area as the 2 blade? It could be close!
Greg,
I have no scientific proof to back it up other than my own experience but I truly believe it is the lateral cutting diameter that does the trick.......the
reaching out and slicing as much tissue VS simply more blades and "cutting surface" that seems to drop an animal faster.
If you take a head with a two blade 2" cutting diameter (or more on impact) and compare it to say a 1" fixed head but for giggles throw 10 blades on that 1" diameter head and increase the "cutting surface" by whatever that math is?.........LOL
you are still only damaging an area 1" laterally and affecting a smaller area.
Sort of like the absolute extreme you can think of (and I know it sounds rediculous but I think it has some merit in the "Diameter vs, Surface" arguments)
Take a broadhead with a 24"two blade cutting diameter (yes I said 2 FOOT cutting diameter.
) and hit a deer with the blades straight up and down with enough energy to pass through...........you've effectively cut the poor sucker in half and the track job will for all intents and purposes be a relatively short one.
Now take a broadhead with a 1 1/2 cutting diameter and throw enough blades on that puppy to equal 24" worth of "Cutting surface", just stack as many in there as your heart desires..........
Which one caused more damage?
Matt, I tried to edit your post but I didn't have the power.......[>:]
Anyway, I think I get your point..........
Which does more damage? Chopping your victim in half with a sword or just impaling your victim with said sword.
Right?!!
For me, the jury is still out on the cutting length vs cutting diameter.
It is agreed that any well placed shot with any BH will do the job just fine. So now we must be talking about marginal to poor shots. This always boils down to the pros and cons of BH style (mech vs fixed).
which one ....
has the best penetration....
is least likely to glance off of a rib or bone.....
could or could not open in flight...
is more prone to losing a blade when contacting something hard (bone)....
The list goes on. If one kills game faster, to what degree?
I remember hearing that something with less moving parts would be more trouble free.
To me, the difference between the two is almost like splitting hairs (except for the seemingly greater possibility of something going wrong with the mech).
For now I will stay with my trusty, time prooven, reliable fixed blade BH.
Did I mention time prooven and reliable!!?? [:-]