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Title: Whats Your 2011 Bow/Arrow Set up
Post by: Schafer on March 19, 2011, 06:34:00 PM
Lets see um'

Mine: Schafer Silvertip Recurver 66@29 with carbon express predators II waying in at 685 grains with  Woodsmen Broadheads.

(http://i1019.photobucket.com/albums/af311/TraditionalBowman/thisyear017.jpg)

Schafer
Title: Re: Whats Your 2011 Bow/Arrow Set up
Post by: highelk on March 19, 2011, 07:10:00 PM
(http://i1112.photobucket.com/albums/k482/stickbow68/bowstuff017.jpg)
Here's Mine
rampart 64"
47#@29" bamboo limbs/diamond-wood riser

CE 250 heritage 175g points
Custom Lakota style Quiver
Title: Re: Whats Your 2011 Bow/Arrow Set up
Post by: Blackstick on March 19, 2011, 07:17:00 PM
It's way to early in the year for me to pick a bow, let-a-lone a set-up. Please give me at least another three months.
Title: Re: Whats Your 2011 Bow/Arrow Set up
Post by: damascusdave on March 19, 2011, 07:21:00 PM
50 year old 1961 KS, with Easton Epic 500 spine and Razorbak 5 heads to start with I guess.

DDave
Title: Re: Whats Your 2011 Bow/Arrow Set up
Post by: Shawn Leonard on March 19, 2011, 07:27:00 PM
Looks like mine is gonna be a Belcher ILF riser with a set of Belcher/Sky mediums that scale 52#s on this riser. I am shooting beman 500s with 50 grain brass inserts and a 125 grain snuffers up front. Should be good for both deer and turkey. Shawn
Title: Re: Whats Your 2011 Bow/Arrow Set up
Post by: JParanee on March 19, 2011, 07:37:00 PM
Right now it's between the a Hoyt Buffalo that I just really tuned shooting a Traditional Only carbon 400 with a  100 grain insert and a 125 grain head .  Really like it

  (http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa302/jparanee/IMG-20110307-00399.jpg)


Or my old 560 that is a little monster throws 600 grain arrows like lightening bolts

 (http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa302/jparanee/Coats018.jpg)


But I got a Silvertip on order so who knows  Either way Ill be useing the Bowmate Elite back quiver and 125 grain Snuffers
Title: Re: Whats Your 2011 Bow/Arrow Set up
Post by: awbowman on March 19, 2011, 07:53:00 PM
For the time being, I'm going back in time next year.  I'll be shooting a Bear T/D, 60#s at 28" (but shooting at 25.5"), Old bear shafts with the old green bear razorhead and bleeders and 100 grain steel adapter  ....  but you just never know.
Title: Re: Whats Your 2011 Bow/Arrow Set up
Post by: Jerry Jeffer on March 19, 2011, 11:03:00 PM
70" 55#@28"yew and wenge Mahantango long bow. AD Hammer Head with Tusker single bevel broad head totaling 765gr. Eagle flight 3 arrow quiver. Sitting on the ground.
(http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f196/jjeffer/Msquirrel.jpg)
Title: Re: Whats Your 2011 Bow/Arrow Set up
Post by: ishoot4thrills on March 19, 2011, 11:11:00 PM
(http://i547.photobucket.com/albums/hh472/ishoot4thrills/BowPicsatTommysFarm005.jpg)

(http://i547.photobucket.com/albums/hh472/ishoot4thrills/BowPicsatTommysFarm014.jpg)

Specs in my signature below. Plus I will be using Magnus 125 gr. vented broadheads with aluminum screw-in adapters and I have 100 gr. brass inserts installed. That is if I don't try some Magnus Stingers by this fall!
Title: Re: Whats Your 2011 Bow/Arrow Set up
Post by: jsweka on March 19, 2011, 11:33:00 PM
Hill style longbow I made this winter.

63# @28", cocobolo riser, actionboo limb cores, black glass on the back, and clear glass over curly maple on the belly.

Ash arrows and Magnus heads.

(http://i954.photobucket.com/albums/ae23/jsweka/BowBuild/CAM_1833.jpg)

(http://i954.photobucket.com/albums/ae23/jsweka/BowBuild/CAM_1834.jpg)
Title: Re: Whats Your 2011 Bow/Arrow Set up
Post by: Stumpkiller on March 19, 2011, 11:44:00 PM
I'm thinking this upcoming year it will be my 1966 Browning Explorer and Douglas fir arrows - 630 gr +/- w/125 gr Stos broadheads.

 (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v169/Stumpkiller/Bowhunting/HPIM2297.jpg)

Unfortumately the riser swells are too big to get my Limbskinz camo sleeves over.  I may have to tape it to dull it down for hunting.
Title: Re: Whats Your 2011 Bow/Arrow Set up
Post by: StanM on March 19, 2011, 11:55:00 PM
I will be shooting either a '71 Super Kodiak at 45#'s or if my shoulder can handle it a '66 Kodiak at 50#'s.  I'll be shooting our Phoenix three blade single bevel heads for turkey and will hopefully be shooting the two-blade single bevel head we'll be releasing soon for deer and elk.

I haven't been this excited for a season to start in a lot of years.
Title: Re: Whats Your 2011 Bow/Arrow Set up
Post by: vintage-bears on March 20, 2011, 01:50:00 AM
Mostly my shafer silvertip 60" @ #60, aluminum arrows with woodsman broadheads. I also like to use my 1970 Bear T/D 60" @ #55 couple days each hunting season also.

(http://i616.photobucket.com/albums/tt247/87philip/133.jpg)
Title: Re: Whats Your 2011 Bow/Arrow Set up
Post by: 30pointbuck on March 20, 2011, 02:01:00 AM
Leon Stewart, 57#@28 G/T Traditional 5575 30.5"
125 gn. Muzzy.
(http://i664.photobucket.com/albums/vv7/30pointbucks/IMG_0963.jpg)
 (http://i664.photobucket.com/albums/vv7/30pointbucks/IMG_0964.jpg)
 (http://i664.photobucket.com/albums/vv7/30pointbucks/IMG_0962.jpg)
Title: Re: Whats Your 2011 Bow/Arrow Set up
Post by: trad_bowhunter1965 on March 20, 2011, 02:14:00 AM
This is my Pronghorn Longbow 62"52@28 I shoot an Axis 500 with 165 GR Zwickey Broadhead.
 (http://i842.photobucket.com/albums/zz345/California-Bowhunter1965/IMG_0753.jpg)
and there my other pronghorn Longbow 62"51@28 I shoot the same arrow but I am working on some wood arrows to hunt with.
(http://i842.photobucket.com/albums/zz345/California-Bowhunter1965/IMG_2134.jpg)
Title: Re: Whats Your 2011 Bow/Arrow Set up
Post by: rdoggsilva on March 20, 2011, 02:23:00 AM
Not sure yet I have three to choose from. A 1966 Ben Pearson Hunter 45xx or a Astro II 45# or my new Samick Sage 45#. Just to early to say one way or the other.
Title: Re: Whats Your 2011 Bow/Arrow Set up
Post by: damascusdave on March 20, 2011, 03:09:00 AM
Once I get my first kill with the 50 year old I will switch to my new 59 Kodiak.

I will add pics when the Kodiak arrives, probably in about 3 weeks.

DDave
Title: Re: Whats Your 2011 Bow/Arrow Set up
Post by: ncsaknech1ydh on March 20, 2011, 04:18:00 AM
I'll be shooting my BobLee Classic TD Longbow 57# @ 32" along with Heritage 250's full length. I'll have 160gr Grizzlys along with 155gr Strickland Helix heads in my quiver.
Title: Re: Whats Your 2011 Bow/Arrow Set up
Post by: stickem1 on March 20, 2011, 06:45:00 AM
65" Sovereign Sonoran LB. Ebony riser and triple tonkin cane limbs. 55#@28.5. Full Metal jacket 400s with 200g up front. Either eskimos or stingers.
Title: Re: Whats Your 2011 Bow/Arrow Set up
Post by: Birdbow on March 20, 2011, 06:49:00 AM
Should have it by early summer, a Big Jim's Thunder Child, 60# @ 27", in time for the autumn. Will probably shoot arrows on hand, CE Trads 250 with Centaur BH carried in a side quiver.
Title: Re: Whats Your 2011 Bow/Arrow Set up
Post by: Night Wing on March 20, 2011, 07:58:00 AM
Last year, I shot a very heavy 2117 aluminum arrow out of my 42# recurve and a very heavy 2114 aluminum arrow out of my 37# recurve.

This year, I'm switching gears and I'm going to a lighter arrow. I plan on shooting a 2212 aluminum arrow out of both recurves. Point weight should  be around 125-135 grains since I'm fine tuning both bows by adjusting their brace height.
Title: Re: Whats Your 2011 Bow/Arrow Set up
Post by: ckanous on March 20, 2011, 08:04:00 AM
HOOTS "Lil HOOT"-52"-#45@28
2016 aluminums with 145 steering, not sure of the head yet.
(http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc244/ckanous/IMAG0159.jpg)
Title: Re: Whats Your 2011 Bow/Arrow Set up
Post by: Cyclic-Rivers on March 20, 2011, 08:13:00 AM
:dunno:  guess we'll see when the time comes.

Most likely I will be using my 45 lb Big River.  

520 (total weight) Grain Doug Fir Arrows 130 Stos up front. I have been playing back and forth with 55-60 spine and 50-55. Both seem to work well.
Title: Re: Whats Your 2011 Bow/Arrow Set up
Post by: macksdad on March 20, 2011, 08:26:00 AM
Hoyt Buffalo #55 @28   60", Cabelas 400 hunter carbons that I stripped the vanes off of and fletched with 3 5" left wing feathers and added 150 grains of weight to them and a 125 gr. Muzzy MX 4. Arrows weigh in at 625.
Title: Re: Whats Your 2011 Bow/Arrow Set up
Post by: D Harris on March 20, 2011, 11:09:00 AM
My Stalker recurve drawing 52@25 however I do have a Dale Dye Medicine Point coming in November w/ 2 sets of limbs!
Title: Re: Whats Your 2011 Bow/Arrow Set up
Post by: Danny Rowan on March 20, 2011, 11:15:00 AM
my new Brack Quest,62",59#@28"
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v75/comanche/NewImage.jpg)

and my new Cari-Bow Silver Fox, 62",55#@28"
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v75/comanche/Ebony20Coco-bolo20Silver20Fox20005.jpg)

AD Trad arrows 31" with 100 gr brass insert and 300 extreme three blades.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v75/comanche/DSCN0347.jpg)

on my side will be my new Karl Anderson knife
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v75/comanche/untitled.jpg)
Title: Re: Whats Your 2011 Bow/Arrow Set up
Post by: 1/4 away on March 20, 2011, 12:05:00 PM
My Black Canyon longbow 64" 53#@28" with 4 fletched Goldtip Traditionals 5575 with 100gr BH adapter & 160gr VPA Terminators.
Title: Re: Whats Your 2011 Bow/Arrow Set up
Post by: JCJ on March 20, 2011, 12:11:00 PM
I switch bows like I change socks so this is really going out on a limb:

62" Holm Made Osprey hybrid longbow, 50# my 31" draw. 32-3/4" Carbon Express Maxima 250 arrows with 125 gr. WW mounted on 125 gr. steel adapters for a total weight of 540 gr.
 (http://i525.photobucket.com/albums/cc333/jcj138265/18-1-1.jpg)
Title: Re: Whats Your 2011 Bow/Arrow Set up
Post by: riverrat 2 on March 20, 2011, 12:18:00 PM
I am shooting a Morrison metal mini riser with a
osage grip,and a set of Dryad static tip long
carbon weave ILF limbs on it. It is 58" long.
I am shooting Beman ICS 400 arrows with .145 up
front. It shoots spot on now that I positioned
the nock 5/8 above center. Poundage 45-50.
Title: Re: Whats Your 2011 Bow/Arrow Set up
Post by: pruski on March 20, 2011, 12:29:00 PM
new to me PCH
Title: Re: Whats Your 2011 Bow/Arrow Set up
Post by: 3undr on March 20, 2011, 03:11:00 PM
just traded for a psax 54#   58inch   can't wait!
Title: Re: Whats Your 2011 Bow/Arrow Set up
Post by: 59Alaskan on March 20, 2011, 03:48:00 PM
Not sure yet for turkey season.  But it will be difficult to say "no" to this blue stripe Super Kodiak I picked up over the winter.  This group is at about 21 yards.

   (http://images.imagelinky.com/1300650382.jpg) (http://images.imagelinky.com/1300650382.jpg)

The other 2 in the running for turkey season are a 1962 Grizzly and a Hill Country Wildcat.

Arrows with the SK are GT 3555s with 180gr up front.  If this is the set up will likely use a Ben Pearson Deadhead up front with a weighted adapter.
Title: Re: Whats Your 2011 Bow/Arrow Set up
Post by: damascusdave on March 21, 2011, 08:12:00 AM
QuoteOriginally posted by Danny Rowan:
my new Brack Quest,62",59#@28"
 (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v75/comanche/NewImage.jpg)

and my new Cari-Bow Silver Fox, 62",55#@28"
 (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v75/comanche/Ebony20Coco-bolo20Silver20Fox20005.jpg)

AD Trad arrows 31" with 100 gr brass insert and 300 extreme three blades.
 (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v75/comanche/DSCN0347.jpg)

on my side will be my new Karl Anderson knife
 (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v75/comanche/untitled.jpg)
Dan, I feel so sorry for you having to work with equipment that is not ever properly broken in. Hope you can manage.

DDave
Title: Re: Whats Your 2011 Bow/Arrow Set up
Post by: Covey on March 21, 2011, 08:25:00 AM
Shafer Silvertip 54# at 28" ( drawn a little over 30") 2117 with 125grn muzzy phantom's. I've been shooting this same bow for almost 2 years now. That's unheard of around here!  :D  

Jason
Title: Re: Whats Your 2011 Bow/Arrow Set up
Post by: KentuckyTJ on March 21, 2011, 08:26:00 AM
Agreed Dave, that SilverFox is simply amazing Danny.

I am expecting a Black Canyon recurve in a month or so. Hopefully it will be my 2011 pick. If it's no good it will be 1/4 aways fault.

TJ
Title: Re: Whats Your 2011 Bow/Arrow Set up
Post by: bear1336 on March 21, 2011, 08:54:00 AM
Bear T/D A riser with #1 limbs 47#, 1916 with 100gr Magnus 2 blades..
Title: Re: Whats Your 2011 Bow/Arrow Set up
Post by: ScottinPA on March 21, 2011, 09:59:00 AM
58" Silvertip 74@27 shooting Beman ICS 300 50gr inserts and 150 Stinger

56" Screaming Eagle Wolverine 67@27 Heritage 350 100gr insert 150gr Stinger

Coming in 2-3 weeks -  58" Silvertip 72@27 should shoot Heritage 350 50gr insert 150gr Stinger
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