From TABLE IV and Fig. 6, the blunt rod has higher
number and percentage of strikes compared to sharp and
standard. The number of strikes for blunt is 20% and 40%
higher than the sharp and the standard rod respectively. These
results further substantiate that the blunt rod is a better
performance rod over the sharp and standard rod as discovered
in Stage 1, thus is also the best performance rod among other
rod geometries.