ORIGINAL: quiksilver
BC - I think you've been reading too many ballistics charts. Strike Velocity will only have a noticeableaffect onpenetration at extreme, hypersonicspeeds (think .22-250 at 3500 fps into a vat of ballistics gel, or the Mythbusters episode where they were firing rifles into a H2O column).
In terms of archery, our speeds are so slow that "strike velocity" is a nonfactor.
Dave, I probably never told you this, but I am the illegitimate son of Rambo.