![]() Small Southern deer and twitchy does generally duck more. These aren’t rules to live by, just generalizations from the field. Those deer can live and if you bump ’em it’s a very difficult track.” Observations on String JumpingĮven though deer are completely unpredictable, there are some general observations that both Hunsucker and Warbritton have made over the years. So that’s just a diaphragm shot or liver if you’re lucky. “People will see that shot in the moment and think ‘heart shot’ but if that deer’s front leg is back, they’re not hitting the heart, they’re hitting six inches behind it. “I’ve seen a lot of deer bumped and lost from hits that were behind the heart and below the lungs,” Hunsucker says. The data in this graph shows the theoretical amount of time a deer would have to duck an arrow at different yardages and different arrow speeds. ![]() Based on slow-motion video evidence, it’s safe to say that deer can react more quickly than even the fastest humans. (You can see the reaction times of sprinters from the 2016 Rio Olympics here). 10 seconds of the gun is considered a false start. For reference, elite sprinters have a reaction time of just under. There are a lot of opinions out there about a deer’s reaction time. There are two other important factors here: The speed of sound and a deer’s reaction time. The superfast crossbow speed of 500 fps is based on the fastest crossbow in the world, the Tenpoint Nitro 505, which we chronographed in our review of the best crossbows of 2022 at 515 fps. The 300 fps “Speed Bow” would be cranking out arrows at about 310 FPS at the point blank. So, for example, the “Slow Bow” setup shooting 240 fps, would likely read 250 fps out of a chronograph. Keep in mind that the speed for each bow is the average speed across the range, since the arrow slows as it travels. In the chart below you’ll see results for the amount of time deer have to react to a shot at different yardages for different speeds. I decided to apply some math to Warbritton’s observations.
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