Shoot what works for you but I’m over trad guys telling me I have to shoot a big slow heavy arrow- its simply not true.
I'd like to preface that I don't perceive anyone here telling anyone to shoot a "big slow heavy arrow" or as mentioned above anyone claiming that "speed improves accuracy". Nonetheless, I hear you man and I'm happy to acknowledge your statements and 'am thankful for your experiential arrow building information.
I absolutely agree that one is best served by what "works" for them and some guys love telling others what to do–especially master manipulators. I'm glad you did your own arrow building process and honed in your own system–that's the Ashby Bow Hunting Foundations advocacy.
Quantifying variables like "slow", "heavy", "momentum" is best understood in a given context. I believe a context that provides an expansive baseline for assessing and selecting effective and efficient inputs that quantify probable variablitlies is Dr. Ashby's 12 factors of terminal arrow performance.
Yeah I'm a huge Dr. Ashby lover–his work is exceptional! The man gathered as many conditions and circumstances as he possibly could, while putting a boundary around monetary and confirmation bias, and meticulously measured the conditions he could within their respective context.
He then assessed for correlations and made his conclusions based on high correlations and observed outcomes. He then organized all that work into "pure principles" or "first principles", so his arrow building and shooting system would have a
baseline that has a Higher Probability for Repeating a Similar Outcome; E.g, conditions xyz with circumstance abc = "terminal arrow performance".
His work clarified detailed factors that are applicable to a unique context of shooting a sharp stick at an armored animal in motion.
Then he Generously and Freely gave his meticulous knowledge to fellow bowhunters asking only that they consider the principles which he found better align with the efficient and effective harvest of a in motion armored animal.
Consequently, his generous work enabled the "legal use" of archery hunting in Africa.
His work has continued and is evolving with the use of more conditions and more quantifying data to support a universal goal of effectively and efficiently harvesting animals. The ability to quantify speed is an important variable when considering momentum; which is apparently an important variable of the physics involved with material interactions(penetration, bleeding, clotting, bonebreaking).
My intent for communicating this is to make the distinction between what his advocacy and work focuses on versus the marketing context which informs some folks who want master manipulators to tell them what to do and which narrow variables will achieve their harvest objective. I don't perceive our posting group here correlates with those labels, but the "industry" certainly pays attention to where their "target group" is and what the group is thinking about.
The accuracy topic is funny. Accuracy is obviously applicable to Dr. Ashby’s second principle of terminal arrow performance: Perfect Arrow Flight.
And it's funny how speed and arrow lightness have been the main variables which have influenced the past culture and their association with "accuracy". We're finally seeing a shift to consider the holistic context which Dr. Ashby wisely advocates in the midst of a marketing culture that has lost ground and many animals.
When guys who have thoughtfully considered the physics regarding material interactions, what the terminal arrow performance principles are, and how they have applied those principles to their unique context, then we will all benefit from assessing our unique quantified data and observed outcomes. I'd also sure love to stop seeing anymore elk hunting videos of an arrow bouncing off the side of an a elk.