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    Who has snorted the Fairy Dust?

    I'd have to look back through the video/graph on it and while it looked like there may have been a small amount more? It was pretty consistent except for maybe the ultra light.
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    Who has snorted the Fairy Dust?

    Is the velocity deteriorating at a set amount or is more/less lost as it slows down and travels further?
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    Who has snorted the Fairy Dust?

    By increasing the draw weight you would be increasing your energy output. But at a set draw weight and length the output is consistent across various arrow weights.
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    Who has snorted the Fairy Dust?

    Oof, thread slowed down. How was everyone's season? Making any changes in the off-season?
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    Who has snorted the Fairy Dust?

    Was just listening to a THP podcast (#167) that had Ranch Fairy and "Rocket man" on it. It was very interesting when they started talking about kinetic energy and compound bows, they describe compounds as a kinetic energy machine and in their testing bows consistently had a set kinetic energy...
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    Who has snorted the Fairy Dust?

    Ashby did most of his testing refinement on freshly killed Asiatic Buffalo in Australia. He said his penetration results were even better on Live targets because there was blood pressure so everything was tight and more blood to lubricate the arrow.
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    Who has snorted the Fairy Dust?

    He's also aiming and hitting exactly where his arrow build is supposed to go and avoiding bone. The reason we're discussing go heavy or go home is to change that point of aim to be more directly for the heart and as plan B
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    Who has snorted the Fairy Dust?

    Read the factors. The 650 heavy bone threshold is #12 UNLESS you hit bone where it becomes #3. The more you have the better the penetration but TAW >650 is only for bone but more mass the better for penetration also. https://www.ashbybowhunting.org/12-arrow-penetration-factors
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    Who has snorted the Fairy Dust?

    Likewise if you'd been shooting the 315 and hit the branch you didn't see, the slow arrow would have avoided it.
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    Who has snorted the Fairy Dust?

    I think the honest answer on String Jumping is that short of being able to talk to a deer or read it's mind, we just don't know. There are SO many possible reasons and extrapolations not to mention for every deer that jumps like crazy there will be one that just takes it. We know that our...
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    Who has snorted the Fairy Dust?

    GPI looks really heavy.
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    Who has snorted the Fairy Dust?

    AND they practiced religiously, I know my dad when he still bowhunted was also in an archery club and had several "Robin hood's" to the point of just being mad about losing a good arrow. When I first got into it and asked if he'd want to join, he refused because he didn't have the time to...
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    Who has snorted the Fairy Dust?

    @Jimdude he actually covers it Warning multi part series
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    Who has snorted the Fairy Dust?

    These darn mosquitos bite harder and harder every year
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    Who has snorted the Fairy Dust?

    Regarding trajectory, how far are you shooting? What do you consider an "ethical bowhunting distance? Regarding your specific bow setup, your mentioned arrow setup, properly tuned should murder deer. If a 300 gr field point flies that well, 300gr single bevel broadheads are murder machines...
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