Combustion exhaust arrowhead

An arrowhead for rapid kill of an animal, said arrowhead including an elongated tubular body having front and rear ends, said rear end of said body including mounting means for mounting said body on the forward end of an arrow shaft with said body substantially coaxial with the said shaft, the front end of said body including a counterbore defining a forwardly facing seat, a rearwardly facing blank cartridge telescoped into the front end of said body and including a base end equipped with a radially outwardly projecting base flange seated against said seat and a rearwardly facing ignition primer area for impact thereagainst by a firing pin, a tubular plug removably mounted from the front end of said body and engaged with said base end from forward of the latter to maintain said flange seated against said seat, elongated firing pin means lengthwise reciprocal relative to said tubular plug and disposed lengthwise relative to said body, said firing pin means including a forward target impact head portion projecting forward of said plug and comprising the forwardmost portion of said head and a rear firing pin portion aligned and disposed for impact with said ignition primer area upon rearward shifting of said firing pin means relative to said plug, said plug and firing pin means including coacting limit means establishing limits of reciprocation of said firing pin means relative to said plug, said body, rearward of said cartridge, including lateral port means formed therein opening outwardly from the interior of said body through the exterior thereof.