Wow guys...some pretty wild statements, and some VERY wild genralizations.
Belle Island "I hope that most people in this forum can accurately judge yardage out to 30 yds within a yard or two, if not they should not be hunting."
After seeing quite a few 3-D shoots, I guess MOST 3-D shooters better not hunt! Some of the pros maybe...but not the rest of us.
"The point I was making was with these so called "speed" bows burning an arrow out at 300+ fps, there is no differce from 10 to 30 yds." At 300 fps, your arrows would be roughly 1.5" high at 10, and 3" high at 20. There IS a differance...just not a VERY big one. (BTW 3" is TOO much for me).
Silent assasin, Yes, many will go to a mech head because they have trouble tuning a fixed blade at those speeds. This is NOT always because they don't have a well tuned bow!!! MANY braodheads can make a LOT of turbulance in flight. the faster the arrow, the more turbulance. The mech heads don't have as large an area making turbulance (they still make it...just a LOT less). OTHER reasons SOME choose a mech head:
BETTER penetration (confirmed in SEVERAL plausable tests)
Better in a cross wind
Bigger hole
Hey guys, remember that 300 fps bow shooting 3" high? Well, one shooting around 240 will be off by around 5.5" If you mis-judge yardage by only 3 yards, you'll be off by about 2.4" if you judged it to be 30 and it was 27, Worse yet, you'll be off by 2.7" if you guessed 30 and it was 33!
The 300 fps bow? guessing 30 yards he would be off by 1.3" if it was the 27 yard shot, and 1.6 on the 33 yard shot.
No, Speed does NOT mean you don't have to judge yardage....it just makes your mistakes smaller.
We are NOT un-ethical for noticing that a 20% drop in speed equals 40-45% increase in distance the arrow will be off target.
Wanna call someone unethical for saying something like " I just got a speedbow shooting 300+fps, I'll shoot mech heads, and I won't have to tune it or ever judge yardage" Fine, I don't have a problem with it.
FACT, Speed DOES make up for missed yardage.....as long as your somewhat close to start with. IF you can shoot a fast bow accurately,your yardage judging becomes LESS critical. NOT UN-critical, but still....LESS critical.