After being shot by an arrow, why do they break half the arrow off while it's stuck in them??
Answer:
a hunting arrow was often barbed so it could not be pulled out without doing a lot more damage . It was either pushed through and then the arrow broken so the head could be removed, or broken off so the arrow shaft did not move and the head was then cut out .
Nah, I think its a 'I'm tough and I want to keep fighting so i'm going to break this off' kind of thing. I suppose you wouldn't want someone pushing it further in, right?
Don't they usually they have to push the arrow through to get it out, there fore breaking it in half to make it shorter instead of dragging the whole thing through.
Or could it be so that it won't catch on something or be pushed further in by falling on it until they can get help for it. (Like in a stabbing, its best not to remove the knife or weapon until a Dr. or surgeon can remove it, because to remove it will cause more bleeding.)
they want to take out as much of the arrow as possible. But if they pull out the tip, the person might bleed to death
If you leave the arrow unbroken it's going to get in the way. Especially in close combat you dun want someone to hit it causing pain and distracting you from combat.
Because the metal head/feathered part has to be gone or it will really, really hurt when you take it out. Plus it'll catch on things when you're moving about and be fairly irritating (hurt).
They break the arrow so it won't get in the way of them having to swing a sword around. Also if the arrow gets moved around to much it would have more of a chance of severing an artery or piecing an organ. You also aren't going to pull the arrow out until you are somewhere where you can carterize the wound so they don't bleed to death.
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