He wouldn' t get the chance. I' d float like a butterfly and pee like a scared little girl...

I guess we' ll have to agree to disagree. I think Mike could push anyone with his punching motion, and duplicate the same " push" only much faster to become a punch. It' s all in the application of force behind the object being pushed.

For the record, I am shooting Rocket Meteorites this year, with the pointed pathfinder chisel style head. In whitetails with modern equipment pushing good ke levels, I don' t think head style will make much of a difference, provided the bow is tuned well and shot accurately. In a large buck, shoulder hit, I would love the added insurance of a COI head, as I believe based on Dr. Ashton' s study it has the best chance to get the job done. Whether or not it would be overkill depends on the individual situation.

It sounds like you have chisel tips all tuned up and ready to go. If so, I wouldn' t worry to much about it. What I gleaned from the Ashton study was that on any hit except thick bone (shoulder) you' ll get the job done on whitetail size and design animals. The shoulder hit can impede multi-blade penetration, which the majority of chisel tip heads have.

That reminds me of a shot I took in my younger days. I was shooting a McPherson 3rd generation inner cam (before Matt sold the company), pushing a heavy aluminum shaft with a 150 grain PSE chisel tip 4 blade head about 180 fps, really smoking it. Bow was tuned, and arrows flying straight. I wasn' t using a release or sights, and had been practicing religiously to at least be proficient.

I found a spot that was getting a lot of activity, so I sat down on a stump about 15 yards off the trail. 20 minutes later, a nice 1.5 year old 8 pointer comes along, I draw, and he stops dead in my shooting lane and looks at me. Shaking like crazy, I pick my spot and let fly. Arrow smacks the deer square in the shoulder, and BOUNCES STRAIGHT BACKWARDS. Deer runs off, I retrieve my arrow, I got about 1/2" of penetration.

I' m not saying the outcome would have been better with a COI head, but I believe it would have had more potential to get the job done.