<BLOCKQUOTE id=quote<font size=1 face='Verdana, Arial, Helvetica' id=quote>quote:<hr height=1 noshade id=quote>Do you or any one else feel that with a well placed 20 yard shot this would be sufficient to efficiantly harvest deer in a humane manner?
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Absolutely. I've done it. And with a 1 1/4&quot; wide broadhead to boot.

But that was in the days when most people avoided passthru shots. Accepted wisdom back then was that it was an advantage to keep the broadhead inside the deer's vitals and causing more damage as the animal ran. Now, 40 years later, thinking runs that you must do everything possible to blow completely thru the deer's ribcage. I have to admit that I prefer passthroughs, too. I'd rather have the blood trail than a huge mess to clean out when I find the deer.

By contrast to a setup that meets the minimum requirements, your 70 pound Browning Ambush is cranking out a good bit more KE than the recurve that Fred Bear used to take a 5-ton elephant at 40 yards. Do you need all that energy to make an efficient, humane kill on a 200 pound deer at 20 yards?