Here’s some point to remember when you bowhunt in Africa. This is info from the SABA course. In the end you as a Bow hunter have to decide with your ability and equipment which will work best for you. As with firearms the same goes for bows, ask 10 guys the same question and get ten different answers because of personal preference and experience. What works for one guy doesn’t work for another.
Make your bow accurate and silent and you will have a very good chance. If you go walk and stalk go full Rambo camo including facemask and gloves. Good luck with your hunting.
3.1 As a general rule of thumb, it is proposed to shoot with the heaviest arrow that still attains about 240-250fps. A quicker arrow will not be a safeguard from string jumping (where the animal being shot at tries to escape when hearing the bow or arrow's sound),
3.2 NB. Which emphatically proves that 3 bladed broadheads are better than 2 or 4 bladed ones where lethality is concerned, unless penetration is needed, for which 2 blader’s are better, and unless you get pass-through, in which case 4 blader’s are better?
5.4 Kinetic energy
Category Small antelope’s Midsize antelope’s Large antelope’s
excl. Blesbuck excl. Kudu, Warthog excl. Eland, Gemsbok
Arrow mass(gr) 300 350 500
Arrow velocity(fps) 200 230 235
Kinetic Energy 25 40 60
Momentum% 27 36 52