ORIGINAL: K-ZONE
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I don't care if you're the best archer in the world. Low FOC hunting arrows will be a disadvantage in wind, when hitting twigs or when contacting bone.
e]ORIGINAL: Straightarrow
contacting bone? are you talking balance pt or penetration...heavy arrow
vs light arrow? you should have said" light wt hunting arrows not low foc"
because you can make a heavy shaft with low foc that will resist the wind and break bone.
IMO 9 to 13% foc will cover just about every configuration of vanes, wraps,and pts from 75 to 125grs and offer you a good flying arrow.[:-]
I did a little test of this scenario one time.I added weight tubes to an arrow and had the foc at 5% but the arrow couldn't be weighed on my scale because it was so heavy,it also spined out to 100#.The arrow penetrated like crap but whenI took the weight out and got the foc up to around 12 or 15%(can't recall exacty right now)it penetrated great.The test medium was foam and particle board with several shots taken from a tuned bow.The arrows were Nitro Stinger that are tapered and the spine range was from 60#-100#.
My setup is a low poundage one where it matters.Point is that foc matters.Those that have high energy setups can fudge on foc because the ke is so high.
I am not a heavy arrow kind of guy but I like to have good foc(not as much as Straightarrow) but I like it.I also like MASS.I prefer carbon or carbon /aluminum composite and feathers and penetrtation will be fine.
Straightarrow is telling the old school way of doing things,when ke wasn't very high at all.Recurves and long bows needed as much momentum as they could get.These HEAVY slow arrows needed alot of foc and alot of drag to remain stable in flight and produce great penetration.It isn't completely necessary with todays equipment but what he states is factuall.