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Old 08-14-2008 | 12:45 PM
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Default RE: Velocity of Arrow Vs Speed of Sound

A while back I did some similar calculations. I arbitrarily chose the horizontal deceleration of the arrow to be 0.25 ft/s per yard travelled. And I dragged my calcs out to 50 yds, at which it takes an arrow starting at 300 fps, .51 sec to get there.
The speed of sound is 1116 ft/s. It takes .134 sec to go 50 yds. Difference in time is .376.
At 30 yds an arrow takes .294 sec & sound takes .08 sec. Difference of .214 sec.

A deer does not have less time to react the farther away it is.
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