Hey guys i was wondering somthing. ON AVERAGE...will a 60-65#
Bear recurve with an arrow weight ratio of 9 gpp shoot over 200 ft per sec? If you have one and have chronoed it post your results.
Thanks Matt
At 28" probably no....but ya never know when you might get a race horse....
Very few bows will at 28"
I pull 30" so what if it was 65# @ 30" ?
I had a 68# Custom Kodiak in 1981 (when I was considerably younger) that I shot through a chronograph at the Pa. Bowhunter Festival. It averaged 196 fps with a 1718 Gordon Graphlex arrow. They said the arrow weighed 550'ish grains....they weighed your arrow before you shot. The arrow was 29" long and I pulled just a hair over 28 1/2. At that rate, I suspect you could hit 200 with a 65 at 30. All I can tell you about that was my buddy sold his Jennings Shooting Star the next week and bought a Bear recurve. The Jennings shot 187 at that time and it was near 70 pounds. I believe that was the last I ever chronographed a bow.....maybe one time after that. Darn CRS.
George: I was considerably younger in 1981 too ! :)
It must have been the beginning of the chronograph meets arrow speed days. I remember going to an Anderson Archery Clinic in Grand Ledge Michigan in 1982; and they had a chronograph there too.
I was shooting a Bear Kodiak - 60 pounds at 28 inches; and I shot a 31 inch arrow almost to the hilt. I was shooting 125 grain field points; and 2216 shaft at 31 inches; and I was spitting them out at 217 FPS. I shot barefinger and I shoot with 2 fingers so I might have gotten some FPS that way.
I remember that Tom Jennings was there and people were mad at him because my recurve was shooting faster than their compounds.
I have no idea what the weight of the arrow was; I was shooting 5 inch fletch.
200fps with a real 30" draw is possible.