I will admit that I havn't read all of this thread but I think I get the main jist of it.


My thoughts are that when someone misses a deer by shooting over it that they automatically assume the deer ducked the string.Guess what,most of the time they are just clean misses due to addrenaline or misjudged yardage.

Here is a simple test for you.Go out on your practice target at 20 yards and shoot a good shot and then shoot by hitting the trigger real hard.You will see that your hammer release will have a much higher impact(most of the time) and I feel this happens a lot in the woods,combine this with the fact that even with a bow shooting 260,if you shoot a 15 yard deer for 20 that you will be about 2" high anyway.Add the 2" to a hammered release and the result is a clean miss.


Now I am not saying deer do not or can not react to a noisy bow but the problem has been blown out of proportion IMO.It doesn't take much to get a bow quiet enough to hunt with,remember that deer have weird noises going on around them all the time.

A faster bow will help in fighting the reaction time a deer has to duck,that is just plain old common sense and I don't need physics or science to prove or disprove it.If i'm shooting 270 fps and someone beside me is shooting 180 fps,that is 90 fps faster,that means if the arrow travels for a full 1 second that my arrow will be 30 yards farther.This is not accounting for the differences in speed losses of heavier arrows over lighter arrows,lighter arrows slow down faster but heavier arrows need more fletching and more spin causing more drag and that basically cancels each other out.

Hope that I didn't get into anything that has already been pointed out.

Just practice on making good shots in high pressure situations and this subject will be a relative nonissue.Friends can help with this,if most friends are like mine they will not make shooting any easier. <img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>