Len: [][]

I appreciate your scientific knowledge. However, IMO, you are misdirecting and overloading. I know about the different affects that various environmental conditions can have on different materials and the different shooting conditions that lighting can cause.

Most of what you point out are generally concerns that a shooter may consider in competitive shooting on a range. Even then, not all, and sometimes no one, will have the opportunity or the gear to change setups as the weather and lighting conditions change. I do believe that the emphasis in this thread is on bowhunting and the rational and necessity of having broadhead-mounted shafts imitate the performance of field points.

I have a very hard, head-shaking, time trying to understand why some believe that their hunting shaft mounted with a broadhead must imitate the performance of a shaft mounted with a fieldpoint, when he or she, hopefully, is not going to be hunting large game with a fieldpoint.

However, I am really blown away by your implication that there is some kind of " middle-of-the-road" tuning that a bowhunter can and must attain in order that their outfit will compromise all the environmental/lighting conditions that will affect all the different man-made materials on the bow and arrows in many different ways, depending on the material to make ONE shot. PS: I did not know I was only suppose to take ONE shot!

Am I out of touch? Has the proper and minimum tuning of bowhunting gear actually reached such a plateau?

Jeez! My head hurts! What' s next, computer guidance systems on bows and heat seeking heads on shafts!!?