My brother was positioned to my left side & behind me, my target was just to the right or the dogs kennel. The video system we had was high speed video, which records more frames per second.

My point is more towards the fact that any animal that is on edge or jittery could reacted to the shot in time to string jump an arrow no matter how fast. In my mind it doesn’t matter what he was reacting to just the fact that when my arrow hit the target he had not moved his head, ears, tail or anything else, but while his ears were up & he was paying attention he would turn his head or start to hunker down a bit before the arrow hit the bag. He still would have had a hole in him. <img src=icon_smile_dead.gif border=0 align=middle>

Keep in min we are not scientist just two Joe’s with some expensive video equipment. The long & short of the story is, shoot @ an animal when it is relaxed. The speed of an arrow may help, but the trajectory is more important for me, so I am not in the position of guessing high or low.

In my opinion there is no bow that is quiet enough that a deer will not hear it inside 30 yrds, whether the deer reacts or not is anyone’s guess. In our test it didn’t matter for the beagle he didn’t move enough to get out of the way or drop down, he just started to react when the arrow hit the bag. . I would guess a deer moves quicker than a dog but I don’t know. But if a dog started to react before the arrow hit @ 30 yrds I would guess a deer would also.

The test only shows that animals will react to sound differently while in different modes, if a buck is busy chasing tail around, I could fall out of my tree stand climb back up draw & hit my mark. An exaggeration of course but you get what I am saying.

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