You are talking about the arrow dropping?

Once the arrow leaves the string it is no longer accelerating. It is carried by its momentum only. It is also acted upon by the same force of gravity that acts upon the deer as it is dropping. The two should cancel each other out and meet at the same place at the same time. We all should always hit where we are aiming, never high....(Lots of sarcasm, of course.)

Nor, I brought Bill's article into the debate. It has a lot of good info, it has some wrong. At the best he stated that a deer's reaction was unpredictable...good point...


A deer can and will, at times, drop a full 18" or better and CAN duck an arrow at less than 20yds.

Figuring out how far they can drop was a miscalculation on his part, more than gravity acting here.

Getting help from a faster arrow...you might gain 1/4 to 1/2 inch advantage but cannot negate the effects of a duck until that arrow reaches the speed of sound.

The article was designed to sell speed.

BigCountry brings about a good point. All this technology with faster bows has also brought about the technology for quieter bows.

And I disagree about having a modern bow NOrjeff, yes I have one, but I also shoot a longbow. How those Indians ever killed anything is beyond me...Perhaps their physics professor was better than mine....



Edited by - cyclone on 01/31/2002 09:14:16