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Loading...Published by mark kennedy on 31 Mar 2008 at 05:01 pm
IS SPEED A SUBSTITUTE FOR TALENT?-YEAH RIGHT!
To most everyone who has ever shot a bow this really seems to be one of those questions better left unasked. Unfortunatly I have been readimg more and more about how archers are buying 70# 80# and 90# limbs so that the buck won’t jump their arrow.
I don’t mean to knock on everybodies hunting stories but seriously when I am shooting 40# and shooting 175 fps there aint no way that deer is jumping my arrow, so why the heck push the extra dollars for a few more feetper second? I couldn’t understand it until an insightful at’er started a post about the many younger shooters that beliee they are invincible and will pull 80# there whole life. Now not every young shooter is like this but as i read more and more about it i see why people generalize in this way and it is extremely dissapointing to see threads that even hint at suggestign that the more speed your bow packs or the more power it has the less perfect your shot needs to be.
Speed is not a substitute for anything, it doesn’t matter if your shooting 400 fps if you shoot the deer in the [email protected][email protected] all your gonna get for your SPEED is a clump of hair and no deer, heck that deer may even thank you one day for given him the oppurtunity to live another year.
Poundage is the same thing, you don’t need 90# if you hit the animal in the heart, it’s just overkill, i mean 65# easily tears through a deer, all your doin is tearing up the trees as the deer runs away. If anything is a substitute for anything else, skill, and talent is a substitute for speed and power, i’ll bet you for every 5 deer shot in the tail with an arrow shot at 90# your not going to get a single one.For every 5 deer shot in the heart at 45-55 # i’ll bet at least four will be drop dead. (always need to account for the inexperienced tracker or the occasional color blind hunter in the dark).
In my mind you always have a better chance taking a steady shot at 60# that is gonna rip through that deers vitals than a power shot to the tail bone, but lets just see who takes the better buck this deer season.
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wyojon137 on 31 Mar 2008 at 6:50 pm #
Well first of all, I am not a speed hunter, I am a traditional bowhunter, I shoot a 540 grain arrow at 204 feet per second very very quietly. I have and still do shoot a lot and I mean a lot of compound bows that are very fast. I run an archery shop for a living so I see them all. Personally, I think we all need to be concerned with noise instead of speed. Sure speed is way way way cool. I mean I had a bowtech 82nd airborne shoot a 400 grain arrow at 337 fps through my chrony. That is flat out BAD!!! But, no matter how fast you are shooting an arrow, if you make enough noise for that critter to jump it, he’s gonna do it. Until you shoot something at faster than the speed of sound (aproximatley 1129fps) which won’t happen anytime soon and kind of defeats the purpose of shooting a bow, speed won’t play nearly as big of a part as most think. The best bow isn’t the fastest, its the one that you are the most comfortable shooting at it’s maximum potential.