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Question for people who have short draw lengths

swampsnyper said:
My son is shooting a diamond edge, 25in DL at 35-40#s. Easton axis 500s tuned with a 200gr VPA 2 blade. Got a shot at a young doe this year and hit high near the top of the shoulder blades. Couldn’t find the deer or arrow but got pics of the deer later with a hole through the top of each shoulder. Not even walking with a limp in the trail cam videos. It was a 10-15 yard shot. And he was 15ft high.
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Above the spine. That setup should work well for him.
 
His arrows are standard inserts 4 inch wraps and vanes lighted nocks I think the worry comes from when he is shooting targets and his arrows only stick in a couple inches and then hearing about my shot on a quartering away deer and it deflected off the rib bone at 30 yards I think his arrows are about 7% foc I’m not sure I will have to make sure when I get home I’ve been tuning my bow and arrows for years and never heard about foc so I’m am kinda learning as I go on this
 
Pretty much across the board......people are waaaay overthinking things these days.

Quiet bow, sharp broadhead (lots of dull crap in quivers), and reasonable shot distance. Done.
 
raisins said:
You got the over vs under spined backward per your previous comment.
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I see what you mean but it's lost in translation. My wording should have been more clear.


[ Again, in my mind hunting arrows can be (as in, "it's possible to be") under spined but not (as in, "not possible to be") over spined on a modern compound. ]
 
Jessek said:
His arrows are standard inserts 4 inch wraps and vanes lighted nocks I think the worry comes from when he is shooting targets and his arrows only stick in a couple inches and then hearing about my shot on a quartering away deer and it deflected off the rib bone at 30 yards I think his arrows are about 7% foc I’m not sure I will have to make sure when I get home I’ve been tuning my bow and arrows for years and never heard about foc so I’m am kinda learning as I go on this
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I would encourage him to not worry about how far his arrow sticks in a particular target. I have a new Morrell target that my arrows barely stick in 2-2.5". With my compound that is a 500 grain arrow at 269fps. Shooting a 570 grain arrow from my 57# recurve the arrows stick in some less. Both of those bows will blow an arrow through deer. I would think he could go to a 125 or 150 grain head with his current arrow setup but his bow will kill plenty fine like it sits. His current setup should be significantly stiff from a dynamic spine standpoint so he could play with all sorts of stuff from where he is. If that arrow is flying good right now though, I would encourage him to go kill some stuff first before he starts changing stuff up much.
 
Before I started shooting my long bow I was shooting a Matthew's switch back xt at 25in 48lbs with 500 carbons 26in arrows with 100gr slick tricks and getting pass throughs all the time on deer.
 

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Do this. And either shoot out to a distance that allows you to use a single pin effectively (probably 20 yards), or get a 3 pin sight that has them set at 10/20/30.

don’t overthink it. A 500-600gr arrow with 200-250gr total up front with small cut on contact really sharp broadhead will do what you need it to do on whitetail deer. Focus on doing your part - shooting a well tuned rig at reasonable distances. The above arrow parameters will do the rest.
 
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