Steve,
Not judging my friend, Again this year as I was archery hunting and a Bowhunter stumbled on to my 400 acre lease "With out permission" I might add , I approached him and he quickly started to apologize for tresspassing and headmitted he had a wounded deer that he had been trailing all morning, since I was still hunting I didn,t get a chance to see the deer as it probably was well ahead of my path. First thing I did was view his choice of equipment, A compound no problem with me, Carbon arrows eem , I started to wonder how light they were ,and then the Mechanical broadhead preatty much gave me a case of the a$$.
Well knowing this guy needed help and he kept waiting for me to let him look for his deer I had already did my hunt and he was molesting any further chance of a deer for me soI volunteered to help him look for his deer.

We started out looking for this deer and I asked him where he hit the deer and he said ,,AS ALWAYS ,,"RIGHT IN THE BOILER ROOM", We went a ways and we found the Arrow, and the broadhead ! it was a tangled up mess ! looked like a damm bird point ! the arrow had about 3" of blood down the shaft I had figured this deer was half way across the next county by now, I told him we would set for a while. As we sat there he started studying my recurve,he asked me what # it was ,I told him 93# he said what does that equall out to a 55# compound ? I laughed, he then aked me why i was using such a small arrow 2018's , I told him that I had a 1716 sleeved inside for a 860 grain arrow, skinny ,stiff and EXTREMELY hard hitting, He stared at my Zwickeys and asked me why waste the time with those and you can use these already sharp broadheads like the ones he was using,he then went totally quiet ! And he then asked me how many deer I had ever killed with a recurve, I told him 42 andhe was in shock ! He asked me if I thought we would find this deer, I told him NOPE ! but we looked a few more HOURS and the blood didn,t last long, And we gave up. Everything this guy was using was legal ! from the 50#bowweight to the damm 12" stabalizer, to the super light arrows,and that mech.broadhead ! all legal !! but to mehis choice of gearwasn,t ethical and there was a wounded deer to prove it! We talked over a couple beers at my spike camp and I think I convinced him thet the compound was a great weapon as long as the choice of arrow weight,and broadheads were conducive for the game being hunted, again I feel a Bowhunter ED. course should be mandatory EVERY WHERE !
tJ