Sioux arrow

[JasonJelinek]

#7265

Here’s a picture I took last year at a museum in Bismarck, ND of a Sioux arrow about 120 years old.

I cobbled together the pieces (a forged trade point similar in dimensions to the one shown in the picture) and came up with around 24% FOC.

I thought of this when I read the PNG article by Ashby, when he mentioned that there were examples of native american arrows that exhibit high FOC.

Another interesting point from the picture is the dimensions of the trade point. You can see it is very long and narrow, it might even be higher than a 3:1 ratio. My trade point is 7/8″ wide and 3″ long producing a 3.4:1 ratio.

[Ed Ashby]

#60119

Great photo, Jason, and a great example too. If one spends much time looking at the ‘primitive’ equipment used decades and centuries ago it’s amazing how many examples there are of the same features the Study is showing help maximize our arrow’s terminal performance. I’m pretty certain that we’re merely re-discovering what mandkind’s collective memory had lost as mankind supposedly ‘advanced’.

Ed

[Stephen Graf]

#60936

Maybe it’s an optical illusion, but… it looks to me that: while they may have known something about the weight forward advantage, they didn’t care much for spin testing 😯

[Ed Ashby]

#61149

It’s a pretty safe bet that the broadhead on the arrow shown was a lot better aligned when it was ‘in use’ than it is today. It likely that the shaft has dried and sharnk through the years, losening the broadhead’s bindings and allowing the broadhead to shift alignment. I watched the PNG hunters spin their arrows on the tip, so I KNOW they are switched on the checking ‘broadhead alignment’.

Ed

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