Originally Posted by
Chaoselite
Greetings Psylocide,
I do not work for this company. I work for an outdoors company with stores across the US. We are working on getting these in our stores. It was my mistake I did not include all of the benefits of this. It provides secondary impact and arrow flight stabilization as well. We did some testing here and I know that the company that sells them did it more on a large scale and ended up getting a patent after it was successful. I am confident you will see more proof within the next year once it hits the larger market. All of my information is from research and talking with manufactures of arrows and this company.
Gotcha... well, you're going to draw a lot of skepticism with your first posts on this site hailing the effectiveness of this add-on, and your links to "their" site in the first post is probably the most telling.
But, that aside... I'm still skeptical as to the actual usefulness of these. If you're getting pass-throughs with your current setup, then the "extra kick" from the slide hammer isn't going to make much of a difference. Also, if you hit bone... I'm not sure the slide hammer would be the difference between busting through or lodging/bouncing off.
Basically, one would need to see a control with ballistics gel and bone, same broadheads, same bow, same weight arrow (I'm assuming you would have to add weight to the non-slide hammer arrow) and then fire the same shots with the slide hammer. Would be interesting to see.