Two years ago I shot a small eight pointer at eight yards after he finished freshening up a scrape. I was in a 17' ladder stand. He was moving from my left to my right. Shot placement was right in the boiler room and upon impact the arrow entered and went in only about 12 to 14 inches. The remaining part of the shaft was sticking out his right side. I was mortified that I only got that level of penetration at 8 yards. As he bucked and took off I saw the arrow slap against a small pine as he disappeared. He only went 40 yards and died near his bed but I was unimpressed with my arrow performance. Yes, there was a lot of blood and the track job was relatively easy but I thought, If one of these nice black bears we've been having more and more sightings of around here came by my stand, I would hesitate to take a shot with that setup. I was using my .400 spine GT Hunter XT shafts, 100 grain NAP Spitfires. That bow's peak weight was set at 60lbs. The year after, I went back to using aluminum shafts to gain arrow weight and after watching RF and actually reading some posts on here and watching most of the Ashby stuff from the 2013 P&Y Annual meeting, I was convinced there was a better way that also placed the ethical aspects of hunting at the very top of the list. We don't see or care about it much but look around you nowadays. Most people aren't hunting. Plenty of people think their dogs and cats should have the same rights as humans. RF, THP, Ashby and many others are working on taking the paradigm from, "It shoots and tunes great but I can't say with full confidence that my setup will account for anything that may happen upon release" to (and its all relative to some extent here folks) "It shoots and tunes great and I know my arrows will ethically harvest that game animal regardless of what may happen upon release." There is a distinction there that many of us may not think about as much or tend to overlook because we understand the harvest, and are mostly self centric and just want to be ready for bow season as quickly as possible. Unfortunately, many, many, many more do not understand the harvest at all and in fact look at it all as quite barbaric. Any effort a bowhunter or any hunter makes to reduce wounding loss even more goes a long way to convince non-hunting politicians that we are as responsible as can be for one purpose and one purpose only, to ethically harvest game so that hunting in general and bowhunting more specifically remain an important conservation tool. With that being said, although hunter numbers are going down overall, bowhunting numbers are increasing and within that subset, more females are getting into the sport. Say your best friend's brother's wife calls you up because they know you're a good bowhunter and asks for your advice and it goes a little like this: Hey ________ "I'm going on a multispecies bowhunt to the Dark Continent, my draw length is 24" and I can only draw 35 lbs., what do you recommend for a good broadhead?" What are you going to tell her?