Prepper Compound Bow Spec

[Steve]

(30 May 2013, 11:02)Tartar Horde Wrote: A 45-50lb Bow will take any animal in the UK, including Beef cattle etc. The plains Indians took Buffalo with such bows, and the Woodland tribes regularly hunted Moose with bows of this strength. Talking about "knock down" power in relation to bows is a little misleading as Arrows with broadheads don't "dump" energy into a target as does a Bullet causing Hydraulic shock. The only way you will drop an animal in its tracks with a Bow is to hit it either in the Spine, the Heart, or any other Blood vessel that will cause immediate loss of blood pressure and thus death. Even if the animal is hit through both lungs which is a lethal shot the game will not just fall down, it will tend to run off until the loss of blood pressure causes unconsciousness.

The difference is that we won't be riding alongside a beef cow, en masse, firing multiple arrows at it. I know about killing by blood loss, standard deer stalking practice is to allow 15 minutes before following up a blood trail, to allow the deer to lay up and bleed out.