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Here is a decent screen shot :
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Seems like it aligns with a lot of the common thought. Shooting close, you can shoot heavy, it doesn't matter.
It's a little disappointing he was using different bows. Yes the velocity is the velocity, but if kinda skews the numbers to be using different levels of energy to get the arrows moving. Kinda like comparing a 175 grain from a 308 to a 220 from a 300wm. Yes, they are both 30 cal and being fired from a rifle, but they are starting with a different amount of energy behind them. The heavier arrow is going to maintain better, but it might be 75 yards before the fast arrow is going as slow as the heavier arrow at launch.
Hopefully both were well tuned tho and the arrows didn't loose a bunch of energy in recovery.
Best thing to do is just sight in at 40-50 yards, then back up an additional 5-10 yards and see how much things fall off. Like @5MilesBack said, it's distance forgiveness that we are chasing in the elk woods.
If you are shooting deer in the east and the furthest you shoot is 35-40 yards, you don't need to worry about it.
This was the best I could do on short notice haha.Didn't watch the whole thing, but just demonstrating the drop at 50, when sighted in at that range with only one arrow isn't that great.
Now, what they did, had they just adjusted their sight to be on at 50, then shot at 60 to show the difference in that 10 yards seems like it could have been practical.
Then the fact they are putting 300 grains on the front of a 340 shaft from a 75 pound bow that they guess is drawing 77-78# sure doesn't help that arrow either.
I hunt white tail and consider my max effective killing range 60yds or under. I shoot for speed mostly for yardage estimation and I personally would rather shoot smaller pin gaps and hit where I’m aiming. I can’t talk for elk hunters but my 360g setup has no problem slaying deer or a 3D range. There’s a number of fixed blades that fly and penetrate great at 300fps.I’d rather hit where I’m aiming than worry about penetrating bone.
The trajectory difference would be even greater if he had used the same bow for both arrows. For the light arrow, he was either shooting a very slow (by today's standards) bow (315-ish IBO) or he's actually shooting less than the 72# he stated. For the heavy arrow, a 340 IBO bow at 75# could produce the stated speed. Granted, he acknowledged that the bows were different, but based on KE values of the two test arrows, they're very different:This is a great video that makes up for the holes left by the recent giant arrow videos.
Who was it? He never said who he was, or I missed it.I was just happy to see someone popular post a trajectory video.
Brandon McDonaldWho was it? He never said who he was, or I missed it.
I was just happy to see someone popular post a trajectory video. This has been the elephant in the room with the recent KE, momentum, math videos put up by Ranch Fairy and THP.
Funny how everything is based on 30dl -70lbs but that's not the average. Chasing that carrot. Would love to see them advertise their speeds @ 26dl-50lbs with a 600 grain arrow.He needs to do it with the same bow but then we need to see what happens when you don't have a 30''+ draw length. The average DL is sub 28''. That changes from 300fps/270fps down to like 290/250. That is substantially different.
That is my gripe with all these pro archers giving their opinions as facts. Our experiences are based on our own subjective facts. Most of these pro archers are 30''+. Levi is 32''? Tim is like 34''? Tim states spine is the most important part of tuning an arrow, which at his draw I believe it is. at 27? I am more inclined to believe the tuning window is significantly larger than his is at whatever draw it might be.Funny how everything is based on 30dl -70lbs but that's not the average. Chasing that carrot. Would love to see them advertise their speeds @ 26dl-50lbs with a 600 grain arrow.