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At the risk of encurring the wrath of advocates of light, fast arrows...

I hear and read this stuff over and over and over again dealing with speed and misjudged yardage and I really hate it. It's the number one reason most people say they shoot the light arrows... Extra speed will make up for misjudged yardage. Every time I hear that, I cringe. I smell the pungent stench of poor hunting ethics. What the uninformed think they are basically saying is they can't judge yardage worth beans and they know it, so they HOPE the flatter trajectory will make up for their lack of skill.

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Arthur

This may be the first time I disagree with you<img src=icon_smile_shock.gif border=0 align=middle>

Most everyone here knows you shoot instinctively , so you are probably an ace at judging yardage<img src=icon_smile_wink.gif border=0 align=middle> In a nutshell , what you just did is call those who want speed for a flatter trajectory to get away with one pin , because maybe they cant judge yardage as good as you , an unethical hunter<img src=icon_smile_dissapprove.gif border=0 align=middle>

If a hunter sets his shooting limit at 30 yds while hunting , and has a bow shooting the speeds to compensate for his inability to judge yardage between 10 - 30 yards , but knows he will place his arrow inside the kill zone on anything 30 and under , it's unethical<img src=icon_smile_question.gif border=0 align=middle>

Ordinarily the same hunter as described above , may not be good at judging yardage in between , but most know when something is beyond 30 yards or whatever they set their limit to be.
If someone knows that a deer is beyond that , and then tries to take a shot and compensate for it , then they could be called unethical.

I think if someone is horrible at judging yardage between 10 feet and 30 yards (dont know which pin to use) , gaining enough speed to make your bow a 1pin bow out to 30 yards is good , very good!

One of my best buds , happens to be a lousy judge of yardage , so that is the very reason he went to a light carbon arrow at 350gns. He now uses one pin out to 30 yards and spray paints a mark on trees at 30 yards in all directions so he knows whats off limits.
My buddy couldn't judge the yardage correctly between 15yds and 25yds , do you mean he should either buy a rangefinder or dont shoot?
What the heck did the poor yardage estimators do before rangefinders? Probably wound alot of deer! If they can solve their problem by shooting faster speeds , kudos to them!
I think it's very important for hunters to practice range estimation , but some people just plain suck at it.