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Old 12-31-2002 | 01:36 PM
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comndr45
 
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Default RE: Are you content?

I'm pretty content shooting 378 gr ACC's at 26" and 70 lbs. However, I did get a failure to penetrate on the thickest part of a shoulder blade this year with a Snyper and am considering using heavier arrows. I've already gone back to fixed blade heads. I would like to get a set of heavier arrows and see how well they shoot.

I am working out a theory that would combine kinetic energy calculations leaving the bow with momentum downrange, call it KEMO. Calculated the same, but multiply the two together, or some variation-I haven't worked on it too much.. Tweaking arow weight might play more of a factor. That way, if the heavier arrow supposedly doesn't slow down as much, that factor is taken into account. Lots of noodling to do on it, but there has to be a way to account for weight "carrying" the energy and transferring it to the target better. The arrow's inertia has to be a factor there. It is just a seat of the pants type of theory, but I think there is some merit to it somewhere.

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