What is the point of the bows getting faster and faster every year? Has this gone too far?
dave from NY asks: Bill, Many of the bow companys seem to be in a space war to see who can go the fastest. Where and when will it end ? Is this a good thing or a bad thing ? PSE has a bow advertised at 366 fps .A flat trajectory is always a plus but to sacrifice a horrific draw cycle and a minimum brace height is not really the way to go is it ? The area of the archery industry that could end up benefiting the most with high speeds is the expandable broadhead company’s. If your shooting over 280 FPS and in some cases well up into the low to mid 300’s, an average fixed blade could end up in Toledo instead of a bucks chest cavity. Thanks for your dedication to the sport. looking forward to your opinion. Winke Responds: Dave, I agree, the mechanical heads will fly better at these speeds. I have run all kinds of studies and most people won’t benefit much from a faster bow when it comes reducing the affects of range estimation errors. In other words, an arrow traveling 20 feet per second fa
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