Mouse,
Thats why I asked the question.
if it is the amount of time that makes it critical than going light and fast should greatly improve the forgiveness of your bow.
here are some examples:
If you take a bow shooting 280ft per second and shorten the brace height by 1" the arrow stays on the string .0003 seconds longer.
If that same bow shooting 280 has an IBO of 330 (bowtech <img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>) and you shoot a 350 grn arrow to achieve the 330 fps. That decreases the time the arrow is on the string by .006 seconds.
That lessens the amount the arrow is on the string 20 times more than increasing brace height by 1".
If the Brace height time theory is correct, that tells me that going with a heavy arrow is much more detrimental to bow forgiveness that decreasing brace height.
This doesn't seem true, that is why I questioned my original opinions on brace height.
Blackfrogs theory makes much more sense to me.
Edited by - Rack-Attack on 01/03/2003 14:48:40