Hmmm. Could it be that sometimes the S hits the F if you shoot at enough deer?
Hmmm. Could it be that sometimes the S hits the F if you shoot at enough deer?
I took the same hard quartering angle last year opening day with a light arrow with a Rage and it equaled a dead doe! Tune your bow!I took a similar hard quartering away shot on a buck last year, fairy dust still fresh and lining my nostrils, got a full pass through and about 10" of penetration into the ground on the other side of him. He jumped, ran a few yards, turned around to see what bit him. Walked another ten yards and piled up. I'll acknowledge that it's highly anecdotal, however I probably would not have had the same results with a blade deployment/deflection failure as seen in the above video.
In ideal conditions mechanicals and twizzler arrows have killed more deer than cwd. I say shoot what works for you. What works for me is a setup that will continue to perform in less than ideal conditions.
I'd be willing to bet Michael Waddell has a better bow tuning guy than you but I do agree penetration(good shot or bad) is determined by many different factors one of the most important being a well tuned bow.I took the same hard quartering angle last year opening day with a light arrow with a Rage and it equaled a dead doe! Tune your bow!
Better tuning guy, access to whatever gear he decides he wants to shoot, and way more experience flinging arrows at deer than most people will ever acquire. And that deer still bounced away. It happens.I'd be willing to bet Michael Waddell has a better bow tuning guy than you but I do agree penetration(good shot or bad) is determined by many different factors one of the most important being a well tuned bow.
Exactly. Not sure why people went to a fast arrow to stop string jumping. They jump the string because they can hear it so why make it louder and try and beat them dropping when you can go quieter and not have them drop at all.I think it’s funny when hunters are saying that “There’s a heavy arrow and a fixed blade broadhead movement.” Makes me feel old. When I started 27 years ago that’s all there was...heavy arrows and fixed blade heads. The movement that I saw was towards super fast bows, light arrows and expandables and a huge lack of penetration after that. I never made that switch and always had good penetration. Things always come back around.
Over the course of a couple weeks i noticed a little bit better groups (mostly in the wind and beyond 30 yards). Since i did gain a slight advantage with accuracy the second thing I noticed made it a no brainer......the sound of the bow. It was very noticeable going from a 420ish arrow to a 580 arrow. The bow is so much more quieter with a heavy arrow, for me at least.
Carbon arrows and bow technology got people ripping sweatpants crotches out over speed. Do we need 600 grain plus with 20% plus FOC in my mind no but you will definitely save yourself some headaches with a 500 grain arrow and 15% FOC even on whitetails. Not every shot is going o be perfect and that set up with help in penetration if you clip part of the shoulder and on angled shots. Even gun hunters loose deer so to think there is a perfect arrow set up that will help you recover every deer is just not possible.
Would you rather get hit by a 135 grain core lokt or a 180? Both will kill you. Kinda like arrows.I guess the way I look at the whole issue is, would I rather be shot by a ping pong ball traveling at 400 fps or a golf ball traveling at 200 fps. No doubt the ping pong ball would sting but the golf ball would likely put me down.
And if he's the greatest hunter ever, why isn't he shooting the heavy arrow with COC? Guess he hasn't met the fairy yet?I'd be willing to bet Michael Waddell has a better bow tuning guy than you but I do agree penetration(good shot or bad) is determined by many different factors one of the most important being a well tuned bow.
And if he's such the greatest hunter ever, why isn't he shooting the heavy arrow with COC? Guess he hasn't met the fairy yet?
And if he's the greatest hunter ever, why isn't he shooting the heavy arrow with COC? Guess he hasn't met the fairy yet?
I second that!both will preach it’s not the arrow or the bow that deadly...it’s the archer