RE: Does Kinetic Energy = Penetration?
Buckskin
I tend to agree to a point with equal ke arrows that the one with the least amount of friction will do best.But you seem to forget that an arrow is a long object that needs to be stabilized and if the foc is too low then when it hits an object the arrow will just flip forward.If a small arrow had an foc at 5 % it isn't going anywhere.
Another problem with equall ke is it isn't possible for most to achieve this with their bow.
I am still going to stick with the notion that momentum is what bust through the bone instead of bouncing around like a ping pong ball.
We can all agree that a light arrow is easier too move off course than a heavy one.
This may be of some help to penetrate through a deer when you bounce around a bone instead of thru it but on a large animal when you have to get thru a bone,I would still like to have some momentum.
It is all necessary but the amounts of what is in question.
Look here Arthur,we actually agree on something.<img src=icon_smile_wink.gif border=0 align=middle>