ORIGINAL: kwilson16
Faster arrows spend less time in the air before impact therefore gravity has less time to accelerate the arrow in a downward direction. Wind resistance slows the arrow and allows gravity more opportunity to pull arrow downward.
Bottom line:
Just bend at the waist, and shoot the HORIZONTAL distance and you'll be just fine.
I think we have debated this before...
This is completely false,gravity does NOT speed the arrow up on a downhill shot,atleast not the way you are thinking,that effect isn't seen untill much further downrange,like 80-100 yards.
EDIT...OOPS,I MISUNDERSTOOD WHAT YOU WERE SAYING.I THOUGHT YOU WERE SAYING IT SPED THE ARROW UP,YOU ARE JUST REFERRING TO GRAVITY PULLING THE ARROW TO THE GROUND, SORRY. I am leaving the rest of my response just for information sake.
READ THE ARTICLE IN THE LINK I POSTED
If that were true,shooting uphill would slow the arrow BUT an uphill shot is shot almost exactly the same as a downhill shot.
Your fishing rod example is apples and oranges,the rod provides resistance to the equation.
Here is an actuall uphill and downhill chart for my setup printed from my ballistcs program.Notice how close the uphill and downhill shots are to each other.
The triangles are some numbers I figured to determine height in a tree.
