I need know what you all think is adequatearrow KE for taking elk. Im trying to help my friend get setup for his first elk hunt. I took a look at his gear and chronographed his arrows and weighed them and put the data through a KE calculator program, his arrows in my opinion just arent producing the KE needed for clean kill on an elk. he's only getting about 52 lbs of KE with the velocity measured from 5 feet. I always felt 60 lbs of KE is at the very least adequate. trying to tell him he needs to lose some of the junk on his string and crank the bow up to 70 lbs is like pulling teath with him. hes dead set on using his bow the way it is.

Maybe if he sees other peoples knowledge on this matter he would be a bit more comfortable with the idea of speeding up his arrows a bit.

525 grain arrow going mabe 190 FPS .......... whats that calculate to ?

hell it don't matter, it'll blow through the lungs of an elk anyway .......... if you're above what I've got you'll be fine.

Connie Renfro kills game every year with a < 50# recurve ......... you compound bows are A-OK if you'll leave the light arrows and mechanicals at home and take close shots

wow never even thought of it that way. a 525 grain arrow at 190 fps has a KE of 42 lbs.

Cut on contact fixed blade heads and he'll be fine.
David/Mo