The few times I hit bone (ribs mostly, shoulder once) my broad heads cut right through the bone.
Whitetail ribs won't stop much. A solid shoulder hit will stop most arrows.
Maybe you don't butcher your own deer...
There you go assuming again. You'd do a lot better to ask.
FYI, I've butchered/helped butcher more deer than most have seen dead. My brother and I get recruited every year by friends and neighbors, because we know what we are doing. We've been butchering all sorts of game animals, and for years our own hogs, since we were kids.
It has nothing to do with "Tuning",...
Unless you are seeing all these deer get hit, you are just assuming again. Deer are about as hard to penetrate as a paper sack, if you are getting good arrow flight and use a decent head. All have an effect. Even with a lousy head, if you get decent flight and shot placement you can shoot through a deer without having to go heavy in poundage.
Who cares if the arrow passes through the deer anyway.
I do. I like good blood trails.
Don't give me one of those"I know a guy stories" about a double lung hit that got away.
Yeah, I understand. That's like trying to tell me "tuning doesn't matter".
People should stop blaming their equipment and spend more time studying what they are hunting and learning about their equipment.
Yeah, and? Who was blaming their equipment? Learning about your equipment includes tuning it for the best flight and the least noise, for hunting anyway.
If you use the same grain arrow out of a 40 pound bow and a 70# bow the 70# is going farther.
Usually, if the arrow doesn't break. If you use the same grain arrow out of either a 40# or 70# bow, one arrow tuned for that bow and the other isn't, the one that is tuned for that bow will travel further. That's because with proper tuning you get a better transfer of energy, and you don't loose as much energy through bad/wobbly flight. That's why you get better penetration with tuned equipment. That's pretty basic, or at least I thought it was. Something I thought most any hunter would know--comes will learning about the animal and your equipment.
Chad