Danny, most ' old schoolers' I knew that bowhunted ' way back when' were also competitive shooters. We had our bows tuned. There were a lot more competitive shooters back then and a good deal fewer bowhunters, but even then compeitive shooters didn' t make up a majority of bowhunters. Today there are a lot more bowhunters and a lot fewer competitive hunters. Competitive shooters aren' t anything but a tiny fraction of everyone out there now. Most bowhunters swear they don' t even have time to shoot a few arrows once or twice a week. If they refuse to make time to practice, I seriously doubt they are making time to meticulously tune their bows.

People that hang out on these forums are far removed from the average ' bowhunter' and that' s a fact that a whole lot of these folks don' t seem to understand. Someone that' s highly experienced can probably get an arrow to shoot pretty decently with low FOC, like 7-8%, but I think it' s an unstable arrow that will be deflected easily and blown around more by the wind than it would be with a higher FOC. That goes especially for shooting into a stiff breeze!

Bump up around 15% and that arrow will plow right along and not much will affect it. There will be detrimental effects on trajectory but those effects won' t be much of an issue over normal hunting yardages. I like to split the difference between those two points.