I’m curious if other than single pin shooting and or pin gapping, is it really that big of a deal? I not positive but aren’t most trad shooters sub 200 and those guys kill a ton of animals?
It's all about energy at the impact. Hit by a pencil eraser, or hit by bowling ball. Bowling ball still going slow hurts. Eraser needs to be trucking. Some deer duck. Some deer don't. You have to decided how your hunting.
Same knife. No eraser and bowling ball. Same knife.
Which penetrates deeper, a high velocity or low velocity jab?
We know it's the high velocity jab.
Where it gets complicated is a bow can only produce so much force. P=mv. F=ma. K=.5mv. However you cut it, decisions have to be made, but fps IS a factor.
So math was never my strongest but, I probably should have asked a more specific question regarding FPS. Like at what point should you change decrease ToW or increase DW to increase FPS? what is acceptable for ethical shooting of a deer sized animal 150fps? 200?
That depends. How far you shooting? and how do you feel about the sacred cow of the capatalistic dollar vote, lol?
Are you trying to come up with a low draw weight rig?
I’m curious if other than single pin shooting and or pin gapping, is it really that big of a deal? I not positive but aren’t most trad shooters sub 200 and those guys kill a ton of animals?
That's the way I look at it.....IMO fps isn't every important. I'd bet a dollar my arrows sub 200 and even I managed to kill a couple....I not positive but aren’t most trad shooters sub 200 and those guys kill a ton of animals?
30 years hunting with archery gear never shot beyond 25yds. So I’d say < 30yrd just for the sake of asking
Yes I have went to a much light weight do to shoulder and back injuries.
To be honest, I think the relatively slow arrows we trad guys shoot HELPS us, at least the instinctive folks. I can see where speed would help a gapper, though. For me at least, being able to watch an arrow fly ingrains that trajectory at various distances. I had a Morrison Dakota once; absolutely beautiful, real quiet and a screamer. Never could get right with that bow; always high or low...sold it. Never chronoed anything I have, but I'm guessing maybe 160 fps with the 11+ gr/lb arrows I use. The bows are real quiet, stable and shoot flat enough for me, and the arrows penetrate great. Flat trajectory isn't always the be all/end all...the best jump-shooters are usually (always) the guys with the high arcs.