  The convergence of the Q expansion in the ^3S_1-^3D_1 mixing angle is
investigated through the renormalization condition used to fit the free
paramteter encountered at NNLO. Although the NNLO calculation describes the
data well at momenta much less than 50 MeV, a variation in the renormalization
condition results in 100% expected uncertainties at momenta as low as 100 MeV.
This uncertainty can be traced to the presence of large cancelations between
terms entering at NNLO, which are found to be several times larger than the
terms entering at NLO. This implies a fundamental lack of predictive power at
this order int he Q expansion of \epsilon_1. Given the small empirical size,
this lack of predictive power is easily understood in terms of simple power
counting arguments.
