just curious what everyones favorite hunting setup is.....what kinda bow,draw weight,arrow and weight,broadheadand weight. :wavey:
PSA X 62in 50@30 full length Heritage 150s and 125 grain WW.
my favorite set up is over deer... :saywhat:
With a Robertson Primal Styk 53#@28", and the meat missle is a Spruce 11/32" 63# spine woodie from The Feathered Shaft and an ACE super express 200gr tip. 628gr total.
hey bornagain... how do you like that ACE super express....is it tough.
Favorite hunting setup...down wind of a wallow that's about 20yds away, in amongst some evergreens with the sun at my back! In my hand is a 55#@28" Blacktail recurve. On the shelf is a Surewood Shaft douglas fir arrow, 4-4" RW helical fletchings with a Abowyer Brown Bear head for 600gr. ......I think I can hear a bugle and brush snapping off up the ridge and he's headed this way.... :clapper:
Snag that's a great answer :notworthy:
yah....nice touch snag! makes my mind wander to far away woodsy places
52 lb Quinn, tubed Easton 500 with a Woodsman up front with a 100 grain steel adaptor.
well I would have to say 15 yards uphill away from a heavily used deer hiway, with a gentle mist nailin me in the face. The big boy currently behind a big oak tree about to take one more step. The grip of my 55# greatree just slightly wet, and the pink feathers on my Beeman ICS bowhunter shafts are slightly damp. When he steps out I draw back my bow using my sweet bigshot glove with the nylon fingerstalls, no amount of water in the world will effect me!
Release and hear nothin but a gentle twang when the 100 grain stinger goes flyin through the air, and the water mists off the feathers and the beaverballs, on my fast flight string. When the arrow plumets into the meat right behind the shoulder, I know the 100 grain brass inserts were a good idea, and my 18.54% FOC did its job.
After hikin down 500 feet to the valley I drag that whitetail that god has so generously given to me back to camp, pass under the rebel flag and kick back and shoot the bull with dad . . .
opps overboard, o well, that is about as perfect as it can get!!!
The bow keep picking up as I head to the woods is:
Border Ultra Black Douglas
65# @ 27" HexIV limbs
56" lenght
Shooting Beaman 340 MFX Classics with a 250 grain Zwickey 4 blade
1973 Damon Howatt Hunter, 60#'s @ 30"
190grn Grizzly on a 75grn glue on tipped screw in, that into a 100grn brass insert, 5" 3 fletch helical on a footed ICS BowHunter 400 for about 625-35grns.
Oh, flemish string and 4 cat whiskers. Totally silent.
-and a Jolly Rancher Bitter Apple in the breach ...
Joshua
50# 1962 Bear Kodiak from the ground with Arrowmaster quiver. Early 70s 50# Hoyt Pro Hunter from a tree with Selway bow quiver.
Arrow for both 11/32" cedar 29" long with 5" parabolic LW fletch, natural barred turkey feathers, 130 gr Zwicky Delta. Weight around 510gr.
Thunderstick MOAB, 64" 57#. Douglas fir arrows w/ 3 brown & white spliced banana fletch tipped with 160 grn STOS or Magnus I. arrow weight 625 grn
Black Widow 56" PSA III 63# @ 28"
29" Easton Axis 340 with 100gr. brass inserts
125gr. Snuffer mounted on a 75gr. steel adapter.
Depends on what I'm after...
Deer, black bear:
Morrison Shawnee, 62", 60# - 65# w/carbon foam Dakotas, Goldtips and Silver Flame DS. Also have a MOAB that falls in this catagory, 58", 60#...
Bigger critters, Hogs, Elk, Moose, and the like:
Morrison Cougar, 60", 70# - 75#, Goldtips and 200 grain weighted broadheads... Snuffer 160, Woodsman, Razorcap, also have some '57 vintage "Hi-Precision" 3-blades... Or 250 grain weighted Magnus 1 or Pearson Deadhead wide... Also have a MOAB on the way that will fall in this catagory, 60", 70#...
Small game, Turkey, or late season deer:
Morrison Cougar, or Shawnee Arapaho, 55# +/-, Goldtips and Silver Flame XL, or Magnus 1...
Love them all! ;)
usually a 68" 52# @ 27" straight limbed bow , flinging tapered cedars or Fir shafts tipped with Ribtek or Hill broadheads that sit alongside half a dozen blunt tipped of the same all with 5 1/2" feathers in a back quiver . My set up pretty much remains the same whether it be rabbits , Sambar deer , feral pigs or pine cones . stalking, walking and stumping with this set up has helped take 19 pigs in the past 6 years as well as numerous goats and rabbits . Where its most success has come from is in giving me the freedom to stump and walk or stalk and hunt , the same set up that lets me play Robin Hood or Bob Swinehart and John Schulz all in the same outing ... lol !!!
Ben
58" Morrison Shawnee Dakota longbow.48@27" Carbon/Foam limbs.Have other limbs up to 56 lbs, but for deer and winter the 48's are nice.
53# Zipper recurve
Selway Quiver
Footed Easton Axis arrows
Tipped with Magnus Snuffer 125s
64#@28" Chastain Wapiti SL
Thunderhorn Boa quiver, full of 30" XX78 2315, with 225 grains of Snuffer and brass up front.
55Lb A & H ACS 64" with 14" riser
Cherokee LW Quiver
AD Trad Lites tipped with WW
First season with my Morrison Shawnee, 45@27 and blew right through a five point buck. Went about 40 yrd's before crashing.
65# A&H
31" Easton P/C.
200gr. Magnus
drawing 48# on my 64" hollenbeck longbow,shooting tappered ceader shafts at 28.5"w/5" sheild feathers 3 fletch,and 190gr grizzlies....total arrow weight at 525gr,and shoot like darts. :archer:
Blackwidow SAX Bocote 49"@28 Gold Tip 35-55 arrows 125gr Stinger Broadheads 405gr total arrow weight 9 gr per lb at my drawl of 26.5" 183fps SWEEET SHOOOTING setup. Widow
My setup is a 62" spirit longbow 28" axis arrow with a brass 100gr insert with a 135gr mag-1 head with a100gr steel insert . Total weight 585grs equals death from above.
Blackwidow MA-X Bolivian Rosewood 60" and 55lbs @28" with some Gold Tip 55-75s and some 190gr Simmons Interceptors :D
62" Brackenbury Quest, 64#@28" or 62" Schafer Silvertip 3 piece longbow 57#@28"for stalking or treestand hunting, if using a ground blind,then it is my 60" Schafer Silvertip recurve 59#@28", same arrow out of all of them, AD Trad 30.5" long with 100 gr brass insert and 300 extreme head.
Voodoo Kustom T/D (Elk Riser)Longbow 62" 62#@27".
Simmons 5 arrow tube quiver(makes me walk quieter thru the woods), Carbon Express Heritage 350's with 100 grain brass inserts, Simmons Land sharks broadhead 160 grn, 3 4" fletchings.
Thunderstick II Longbow 62" 64# at 28. My arrows are Easton Legacy 2018's cut to 29". My broadhead as of right now is a 160gr Snuffer or 160gr Magnus I, mounted on a 100gr insert. The arrows fly like lazers.
I'm really liking my Denton Forehead, "Subdermal Hematoma".....she has a bit of a kick to her, but she be deadly. Kills on one end and cripples on the other. :eek:
:knothead: :goldtooth:
HH Wesley Special 68" length, 65# @ 28" shooting POC arrows with 2 blade Magnus broadheads
I'm between hunting setups right now.
Got my deer with a 60# Bama Hunter longbow, 31" 2117 aluminum arrow with a 145g Ace Standard and a Thunderhorn quiver. Whiskers for silencers.
Next year I'm thinking...
Same longbow, same broadhead, switching to a Heritage 250 arrow, and a Great Northern quiver.
Definitely going to be using my GFA wool pullover a lot this year and am now shopping for a new hunting stool. Still hunting from the ground in a brush blind.
Hey, cool topic.
I've got 2 favorite set-ups.
Howatt Super Diablo circa 1970 - 60# @ 28" - 2117 Easton - 3 - 5" feathers - Magnus Stinger 125 grain. I've also got some cedar arrows set up for this bow with Bear Razorheads for special hunts.
PMAV 60" - 57# @ 28" - Carbon Express Heritage 250 - 4 - 4" feathers - Magnus Stinger 125 grain.
This is the "looker" set up with dipped and crested shafts.
Chinook
Pronghorn T/D longbow 62" 57#@28", Arrow Dynamics Hammerhead full length w/3 5 1/2" banana cut fletch's, business end carries a 4 blade 150 grn. Magnus Stinger.
Black Widow HS,58amo,64#@28",Heritage 350's with 190gr, Tusker Concordes,5" feathers,always hopin for that record class wild boar
Morrison ilf longbow 64" 44#@29", this one has a 20" phenolic riser with a low grip that fits my hand great. As for arrows, I'm shooting 29 1/2" easton redline 600s with the factory half out insert. I'm using a mild helical fletch with 5" AMG shield cut RW feathers and a 200gr. VPA termanator broadhead for a 460gr. arrow total. I'm shooting this bow as good as I've ever shot anything. Although that may not be saying much! (http://www.angeloholsteins.com/images/Pictures/Hunting/Morrison-006.jpg)
Always on the ground with either my 50# one piece ACS or 3 pc ACS CX. They both shoot the same wood shafts with a 175 gn ABowyer Brown Bear for a 625 gn arrow.