RE: Does Kinetic Energy = Penetration?
It would be the 5 yard shot. As I stated it is still excelerating, meaning that it still has much of it's stored energy in the arrow that will be dispersed before coming to a stop. On the other end, on the longer shot, the arrow has already peaked in KE in it's flight and it lost most of it's stored energy. But see what I mean about how deceiving the thought of KE alone = penetration.