...This is a trick question, right?

A poor shot is a poor shot is a poor shot. It doesn't matter if you are shooting 100 ft. lbs. of kinetic energy or momentum. Great everything can't make up for a poor shot. Even with modern archery equipment shooting a so called heavy arrow... if you hit the scapula square, your not getting through, period. I know we hear about it all the time how someone "blew completely through" but I have never witnessed it to be true when it was throughly investigated. If the hit is to far back it doesn't take much energy to get a pass through.

Arrow weight, speed, kinetic energy, momentum, etc. has been hashed and trashed for years. Not that it doesn't have merit. Certainly we all should aquire as much knowledge on these subjects as possible. But to be closed minded on either side of the issue I feel is a mistake.

With modern equipment penetration has never been a problem for me in many years of bow hunting and many dozens of bow kills. What was a problem in my early days was shot selection and angle of impact. Once I learned my lessons in these areas everything else seemed to fall into place.
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