Originally Posted by
StraightArrowNY
Not true. Sound travels at about 1,100 feet per second. If your bow shoots 300 fps, the sound your bow makes gets to the deer almost 4 times faster than the arrow. How important is that 3 or 4 fps saved by getting rid of your peep now? Not very....
The louder the noise, the more likely the deer will react to it.
This is true if you are shooting at a deer 300 feet away. If your target is say thirty yards away which is 90 feet, so this is true the deer would hear the sound about 3.5 times faster than your arrow got there, but this gives the deer .3 seconds to react to the sound before the arrow strikes him...also figuring in that by the time your bow snaps the arrow is already gone. so your shot is still deadly.