I cant speak for all of Fred Bears elephants but he did kill atleast one with " the pod" .
There are others though who have killed elephants with archery tackle and not rely on chemicals to take them down. Howard Hill would be one.
Tree hugger,
Mass is relative to its speed, and speed is relative to how much mass its carrying therefore that 400gr theory would be blown out of the water. It only takes some time with a calculator and some numbers to figure that one out.
Krisken
You can add 200 grains to your arrow regardless how of " fast" your arrow shoots.
I have a couple questions for you.
First, how much bowhunting experience do you have in killing game? Now killing game other then whitetials, well keep in on north america just to humor your penis seeing epidemic [:-] Not trying to challenge you here, just curious and hopefully I get an honest answer back.
Second,
Do you understand the correlation between KE and Mom? It was in a previous post and pretty dang close.
Kinetic energy is the amount of energy that an object has, regardless if its lead, carbon, wood, or the front bumper of a f350, ON IMPACT. KE DOES NOT go on further then this.
Momentum is what takes over after the initial impact.
Now take into the many OTHER variables, that are coherent with each individual setups and trying to calculate just how much penetration you think you SHOULD achieve is mind bogling.
And finally,
NOw that you care to get back to your original question of
RE: Speed is all you need! (?)
as you can see the answer is NO. There are to many variables leading up to " total penetration" that speed is only one minute factor. Even going as far as setting KE restrictions is a lesson in futility.
someday you may have the chance to leave the confines of Ny, when you do, start asking around......there is a reason the folks out west shoot what they do.