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Title: Effect of Draw Length
Post by: Whip on June 27, 2007, 11:04:00 PM

How much affect does a longer draw have on the performance of a bow?  The reason for my question is that one of my favorite bows pulls 52# at my 29" draw.  I have an elk hunt coming up this fall and would love to use this bow, but that just seems a little on the light side.  How much does the longer draw offset the lighter weight?

The other bow I am debating using pulls closer to 57# at my draw.  Right now my arrows weigh 530 grains, but I may play with bumping that up a bit.

I'm leaning toward the heavier bow, and I can shoot them pretty much equally as good, but I sure like the lighter weight longbow better.

Title: Re: Effect of Draw Length
Post by: vermonster13 on June 27, 2007, 11:19:00 PM

4% per inch

Title: Re: Effect of Draw Length
Post by: Whip on June 28, 2007, 12:21:00 PM

So that would make it more like a 54# @ 28" then.  Still kind of borderline, but I've sure heard of people killing elk with that.  I will probably try to weight up some arrows a little more and a 2 blade head and see how they fly.

Title: Re: Effect of Draw Length
Post by: vermonster13 on June 28, 2007, 12:58:00 PM

Yeah between 54 and 55.

Title: Re: Effect of Draw Length
Post by: doctorbrady on June 28, 2007, 01:10:00 PM

Whip,
That bow would get it done, but having a little extra...as long as you can still hit with it is never a bad idea.  Brady