User blog comment:Deus Gladiorum/What should be in the next Skyrim update?/@comment-4057437-20120711073637/@comment-4057437-20120714092045

When we said the arrow clipping through the target was realistic, we meant the fact that it caused little or no damage, not that it passed through. It really should have just hit and fallen off, perhaps causing minor damage.

As for your experience with airsoft impacts, we can feel a small raindrop, too. They also don't cause any damage, (except perhaps to one's hair-do).

As for your remark about arrows being usless at the 65 meter mark, your original post wished for much longer ranges. We have no problem with an arrow causing some damage at 65 meters, though it shouldn't be as much as at 25 meters.