Lost Arra -- neither do I! It's obscene and we are working on it. Looking over these threads I don't see any I flat-out disagree with. Often, we just choose to talk about different subsets of a situation. I didn't read the TBM article in question, but agree absolutely that trying to shoot one of the largest and most magnificent animals on this continent with a 450grain arrow is ... obscene. Why did TBM, my favorite mag in the world, publish such tripe? No matter whether it shoots like a dart or a corkscrew, you don't shoot toothpicks at mega-game. So far as arrow weight and accuracy -- there's no relationship whatsoever! It's tuning, period.
Brackshooter's reference to heavy arrows "rocking the target" speaks multitudes, esp. when your target it huge with heavy bones.
Ashby himself says that if you don't have flawless arrow flight (bow-arrow tuning) and super-sharp heads, nothing else much matters. But frankly, my slow old heavy woodies are far easier to tune than feathered toothpicks. A huge problem for many of us is that fast arrows "sizzling out of the bow" are sexy. Slow arrows lobbing out there are not. Maybe has something to do with patience, in our increasingly impatient world. Keep kicking it around, guys. I'm with ya. dave
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