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That may very well be the wisest comment that I have ever seen posted!!!!!!!!!!!
beprepn,
Authur is absolutely correct!!! You should keep in mind that opinions are like *******. You have yours and I have mine and contrary to your beliefs most of us have thought about this in depth a time or two, before you ever cam along. Several of us have even done some pretty extensive field-testing over the last 15 years (while you were taking a hiatus) Most of us have done so for several years. That being said, you are not adding anything new or dynamic to this conversation. I am intelligent enough to think for myself. I even took a few physics classes back in college! <img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle> In short, trying to convince the "Light Carbon" shooters here that they are wrong is an exercise in futility. You are preaching to the choir! I can shoot your weight and momentum theory to hell and back with the "drinking straw propelled by the winds of a tornado example". The drinking straw has 1 ft pound of KE and probably very little momentum. The only thing it has is a 200 mph hour wind (which isn't but about 293 fps) behind it and the little straw with no momentum or weight can completely pentrate 2x4s and sometimes bury 3-6 inches deep into trees(seen that with my own two eyes). I still haven't heard a good explanation for that one. All of the heavy arrow advocates typically ignore that comment!
I have some video of me hitting a large Northern Indiana whitetail right in the heaviest part of the front shoulder with energy robbing spitfires and light carbons. The video also shows me pulling the arrow out of the ground from where it had burried up, after passing through both shoulders. It was a bad shot<img src=icon_smile_blackeye.gif border=0 align=middle>. How exactly would aluminums have helped me??? The aluminum would have given off a great deal of it's momentum and KE through oscillation of the arrow(if it didn't bend). That would have helped my penetration how?????? You can only kill deer so dead. Heavy nor light arrows are going to make up for a lack of practice! If you hit them where you are supposed to either one of them will do the job! I have been out there shooting deer with both carbons and aluminums for the last 15 years and I have not found your ASSUMTION(since you haven't actually experienced it) that aluminums out penetrate carbons to be true in any case! To tell you the truth I haven't noticed enough differnce in penetration between the two to even warrant discussing the issue. I choose carbons because they are a tougher more efficient material. I get a little flatter trajectory and the differnce in noise and vibration is a moot point with the bow I shoot.
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