RE: Does Kinetic Energy = Penetration?
<BLOCKQUOTE id=quote<font size=1 face='Verdana, Arial, Helvetica' id=quote>quote:<hr height=1 noshade id=quote>TFOX is right. If you look at Mullaney's bow test reports, he always charts out arrow weight, speed, KE and efficiency for a lot of different arrow weights. I've followed his reports for years and in EVERY case, as arrow weight drops, speed increases, KE decreases and efficiency decreases. <hr height=1 noshade id=quote></BLOCKQUOTE id=quote></font id=quote><font face='Verdana, Arial, Helvetica' size=2 id=quote>
Hummmm that's interesting. So a 40lb bow is more efficeint and has a higher KE with a 700 gr. arrow than it than it would be with a 300 gr. arrow even though I could probably catch the 700gr. arrow with my bare hands. I doubt seriously that this is actually the case. You can get to a weight where the bow is not as efficient or that the bow does not possess the necessary stored energy to move the arrow efficiently.
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