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Main Boards => The Shooters FORM Board => Topic started by: Boom Stick on December 15, 2008, 09:16:00 PM
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A legal hunting bow in VA has to be able to shoot an arrow, with a BH, at least 125 yards.
It's not as easy to figure out as testing #age, and since I'm fresh out of football fields...
Any idea what the minimum draw weight would be to clear 125 yards with a broadhead?
Boom Stick,
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that's a wierd standard. My 43# longbow and I shoot it with 150gr BH would clear that no problem. Shot it down a corn field this year and was shocked at how far it went.
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Even wierder is how the game warden would do a field test of your equipment in the field if he stopped you.
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i shoot a 50# recurve and i actually tride this one day just for fun in extrem wind arrow with broadhead went 142 yards
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Most states that use that kind of criteria use a minimum length and weight the arrow must be for that formula.Nv states it must send a 400 grn arrow of at least 24" long 150 yrds.
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I tested a 40lber,useing a 470 grn arrow,and surpassed that mark by about 30 yrds,so it could very well be below 40 lbs.
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Well my 57# longbow at my draw its more like 53-54#, will send a 491 grain carbon arrow over 200 yards with ease.
So I would think you could clear 125 yards with a 30# bow of good design.
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Yep, A decent bow will easily shoot that. The WR is 230 yards at 11gpp with wood arrows, more then that with lighter arrows and carbon. :) ....O.L.
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Originally posted by reddogge:
Even wierder is how the game warden would do a field test of your equipment in the field if he stopped you.
I was going to mention that in my origional post.
I'd be nervous taking that test!
I'm using a 50# recurve, but still.. I never shot it to see how far it could go. Especially with BH.
My ACE in the hole might be one of "the unmentionable" broadheads, since they're legal in VA.
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Bowmaster: 142 yards 50# (windy conditions)
Traxx : 180 yards 40#
Boom Stick: 1971 50# recurve: Priceless
It is a very strange rule. If I lose the arrow, do they reimburse? I'm comming to the painfull realization that "Archery Ain't Cheap"
$13 Sitka
$30 Silver Flame
$8.30 Lumenok
That's about $50 per arrow!
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That rule has been on the books in Virginia for at least 40 years. I remember when I first started hunting with a bow as a teenager that was the rule. I had a light Shakespeare Yukon marked 40- and at my 27 - 28 inch draw Dad wasn't sure it could do it. We found a huge open school yard in Arlington one early Sunday morning and let it fly. Not a problem!
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Hmm. My grandson's 48" all wood bow at 18# at 22" sends a 10gr per pound arrow 146 yards. Wouldn't hunt with it though.