re: Anyone gone down The Ranch Fairy rabbit hole...

It’s not that far off. All depends on your draw weight, actual fps, and zero of your pin. At 260fps you’re gonna hit 8 inches low if holding a zero’d 20 yard pin at a 30 yard target. 260fps is in the ballpark of 600gr, 29”, 70lbs. Bow efficiency obviously comes into play there.

That’s the beauty of it, to each is own.

I have two hunting buddies with Elite Synergy, excellent quiet and smooth bow. When they get up around 580+ it really drags the speed down. Person dependent you may get 270ish out of it. If you can’t i wouldn’t sweat it, my wife and other people i know are well below that and have no issues with deer. Now, you start moon arching pronghorn or something, it’s a different ballgame.

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i shoot an EZV sight

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How do you like it? I have one arriving this week.

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The only real downsides are visibility past legal shooting light and shooting over say 50-55 yards.

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Well that's good, I don't do either of those.

Thanks

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Did he ever graph out arrow drop at various distances?

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I don't think that has been published yet. I think he mentioned that it would be shared later. I hope he does produce that. I would like to look over the ballistics of what they are seeing.

From that video it appears that the drop isn't as bad as I thought it would be, however you do lose fps due to the weight. Inside 30 yards I don't know that it will make that much of a difference.

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I think it’s all part of what they are working on now. I personally find it interesting.

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Me too. I've followed him for about a year now. I've learned more about archery in the last 12 months than I have most of my life. It's made me research different aspects of Archery and certainly made me shoot more. My heads are sharper than they've ever been too.

Hopefully they will publish the information in a chart version that makes sense.

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I shoot short draw(27") at 60-62lbs

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I'm 26" 65lbs

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with expandables, and unless I hit the spine, I get pass throughs into the ground.

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I've always shot cut on contact. I have always had pass throughs as well. Had buddies that shoot mechanicals and they seem to have more issues finding deer. Hit them perfect in the perfect scenario and they work great. when ole Iffy comes around, not so much... I am not knocking them at all. I just have always had luck with COC heads.

What intrigues me about it is, I don't have to worry about hitting bone. If I miss a little left or right and hit shoulder with a heavier setup, it goes through like butter. Not so much with the lighter setups.

I can't control the animals reaction once I let the arrow fly. So I like being better prepared for it.

besides all of that though, whether you shoot heavy or light, you should know what your arrow is doing upon release.

I shot earlier this week both heavy and light. Bow still setup for light. I shot two bare shaft heavy arrows (601gr), they hit right and a little high.

I shot lighter (380gr) and I clipped the target the first shot and the 2nd I hit the top of the target and still haven't found the arrow.

I got truer flight out of the heavier arrows that the bow was not tuned for than I did with the actual arrows that I have been shooting for years.

If I shoot the light arrow with fletching, I am on target.

I can't explain that but I know which I feel more confident shooting now

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The only thing I worry greatly about is true arrow flight. That harms penetration for me more than anything else.

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Paper tuning and indexing spine helped me a ton with this. Once all your arrows fly the same, you know a bad tear is in your grip or the bow. It’s instant visual feedback on your grip. A ton of efficiency can be lost just getting the arrow straightened out in flight. High foc can smooth this out a ton but doesn’t fix it, which is my beef with hand loading. You can quite literally handload to your flaws.

Just curious, what kind of FPS are y'all getting with draws that short? I shoot 28", 63 lbs with a ~400 gr arrow set up and am getting 220 FPS.