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Benefits of heavy arrows
- According to heavy arrow advocates, what is the ideal weight for an arrow?
- If heavy broadheads and heavy arrows are so great, why aren’t big broadhead manufacturers pushing them?
- Momentum keeps increasing as the arrow gets heavier. At what point does the momentum reach its peak? When is the arrow too heavy for the bow?
- Who would want a 775 grain broadhead? Who’s this product targeted at?
- Why is momentum the most important measure of broadhead and arrow lethality?
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- According to heavy arrow advocates, what is the ideal weight for an arrow?
- How sharp do broadheads need to be?
- I hear about the “mechanical advantage” of certain broadheads and broadhead shapes. Is this important?
- Momentum keeps increasing as the arrow gets heavier. At what point does the momentum reach its peak? When is the arrow too heavy for the bow?
- Who would want a 775 grain broadhead? Who’s this product targeted at?
- Why is momentum the most important measure of broadhead and arrow lethality?
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Momentum
- According to heavy arrow advocates, what is the ideal weight for an arrow?
- I hear about the “mechanical advantage” of certain broadheads and broadhead shapes. Is this important?
- Momentum keeps increasing as the arrow gets heavier. At what point does the momentum reach its peak? When is the arrow too heavy for the bow?
- Why is momentum the most important measure of broadhead and arrow lethality?
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Momentum keeps increasing as the arrow gets heavier. At what point does the momentum reach its peak? When is the arrow too heavy for the bow?
Momentum continues to increase long after trajectory becomes unacceptable.
At some point, the arrow becomes too heavy to be pushed forward by the bow, but for that to happen, the arrow would need to weigh more than the holding weight of the string at full draw. For perspective, a 70 pound compound with 90% let-off has a holding weight of 7 lbs, which is a massive 49,000 grains.
So choose the heaviest arrow possible which has an acceptable trajectory.
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