Feet Per Second. Big deal or no big deal???

[RC]

I don`t think anyone has had this answer. Its my way of shooting deer that squat. I once tried making my bows super quiet. did`nt work for me. In all the years I bowhunted And missed a lot of deer high I started shooting for the heart.Sounds crazy to some of you calm deer killers I know . deer around my house are on their toes. I made`m that way..lol.You either double lung the deer which is best or you heart shoot`m . I prefer the double lung cause they don`t go as far.

  I have a good Friend that shot over a lot of deer before we met. I mean a lot. I told him if he shot for the heart for every deer he shoots under he`ll kill 15. I think he killed 9 in a row last year.

  The super quiet bow don`t work for me I don`t want it LOUD but a little bit of noise is ok because I`m gonna shoot`m where they are gonna be instead of where they are at.Ask any Texas hunter where they aim on a deer.RC

[pdk25]

I like your idea for aiming, RC.  I made the mistake of aiming just under, rather than for the heart, on a calm buck this year.  Arrow went right where I wanted it to.

[dnovo]

The deer I hunt must be wired different around here. I shoot where I want to hit them. I haven't had a deer jump the string on me in over 20 years. Of course shooting a quiet longbow with 600 grn arrows helps.

[Zradix]

I used to shoot a loud as heck compound at 297 ft/sec. Sounded like a muffled 22short going off. Never had one duck. All shot were under 25yds. A normal trad bow might have shot an arrow around half that speed or a little faster. I honestly think the ducking is luck of the draw when we're talking sound. Now if the deer sees the arrow or sees you release that's something different all together. That's my opinion anyway

[StickBowManMI]

I agree shoot low and your percentage for kills will improve!

[4est trekker]

Good question...ask this guy:

 http://tradgang.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=125;t=001890

[Big Ed]

I never get caught up in the speed I lean more toward the heavier arrow, skinny string, quieter bow while still spitting them out there. Ed

[joevan125]

RC that makes a lot of sense to me because this was my first year hunting trad and i shot over the first two i shot at.

The 3rd deer was a nice 8 and i aimed lower on that deer and killed my first trad animal.

Im going to stack those suckers up next year.