The topic came up here and I had just clipped an old video.
This buck is at about 27-30 yards. I marked the hole in shooting through with screen shot. Camera is a couple feet below me. The hole is probabky something like triangle with 2’ sides. Maybe 15-20” “circle” to shoot through. Right down side of tree on right side of hole. Deer was framed perfectly in it, and the branch I hit was roughly halfway between
260fps arrow. Bow zero at 27yards.
It may not look it in the grainy video and from the cameras perspective, but there’s nothing in the hole I highlighted between my vantage and the deer.
315fps arrow makes it home. Do I shoot 315fps now because of it? Nope. But there’s a lot of shots you can’t make with a heavy slow arrow that you can with a fast arrow.
What a wild hunt. Four rack bucks chasing a doe, made a set on them. He was the smallest and last to come through right at dark. 15 minute standoff with me and a bleat can, and him knowing he was going to get his but whipped if he came closer, but just couldn’t resist. Gave me the ole circle.