There is always going to be this debate over speed vs. loudness.

I try to minimize the things I can't control or estimate, it leaves room for error. When I draw back I want to be thinking about one thing, hitting where I am aiming, by having a fast set up I don't concern myself with aiming a little high or a little low, I put the dot on the deer & cut loose. I control the decision on when to shoot, i.e..... while deer is not suspicious or jittery, I can also control the fact that my arrow is going to get to that aiming point as quickly as possible. My brother is noise freak, so we did a little test.

With a high speed video camera from work & the annoying dog next door, I proceeded to put my target bag next to his kennel on my side of the fence. While he was just walking around & eating I would shoot, every time I shot he didn't look or react to the shot but he did react to the arrow hitting the target. When I shot while he was attentive & ears perked up he reacted to the bow. All shots were 30 yards @ 335 fps. The exact same thing for my brothers Legacy, with all the fixens & heavy slow arrows. He couldn’t believe the dog could hear his bow when he released, in fact I think he would have lied had we not had the tape.

PS. almost mist the target while making sure the video tape was recording.


Good judgment comes from years of bad judgment.