RE: A deer can duck an....arrow??!!
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You mean that he may have made a "Hail Mary" shot? No, he claims to have held low, contradicting what was written in the article. Don't get me wrong, I do not dislike him, I just don't buy this speed, speed, speed bull...
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I don't understand what your point is. In the article, the author states that an arrow going 280 fps will drop 9.5" at 30 yards. His shot was at 40 yards with the deer dropping instantly upon the shot and he still hit it in the spine. I re-read it and it says nothing about him aiming low. It says if you don't aim low on a string jumping animal, you risk hitting above the lungs, but below the spine, but that his encounter came out okay anyway. If a deer could drop 18" on a 15-20 yard shot, it should be about 5 yards left or right of same arrow at 40 yards.
If anything this example substantiates his statistics. I too have had the pleasure of seeing a deer jump the string on both videos and in real life. The couple that did it on me are very dead. They were inside of 20 yards, and I was shooting slower bows back then (one was with a recurve), but they were still hit in the vitals each time. I've seen nothing that suggests this author is significantly off in his calculations.
Edited by - Straightarrow on 01/30/2002 21:39:11