I fully understand guns kill in a different manner than bows but I do find it interesting to see the large differnce in the energy.
ORIGINAL: bigbulls
voodoosmc, an arrow and a bullet kill in two completely different ways. A bullet is designed to kill by shock, transfering its' energy, to vital organs thereby destroying them. An arrow kills by slicing through vital organs and arteries and bleeding the animal to death.
For a 180 grain bullet to get down to about 60 ftlbs it would have to be traveling at less than 400 FPS. That is not going to be able to kill much outside a coyote, maybe.
I was just comparing the differences. I understand how a bow kills and how a gun kills, it' s just interesting to me about the large differnce in ke. I didn' t mean to suggest that they are the same. Only to suppily some comparetive information for those of us who bow hunt. I wasn' t sure if you were limiting this to gun or not but from our last post I thinking that you were. I didn' t mean to post off topic I was simply providing the info you were asking for ( admitally with a bunch of extra' s that weren' t needed, so I got a little carried away talking about bowhunting, that' s never happend before
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