Anybody still hunt with aluminum arrows?Ifso whats your set-up?Any HHill bow hunters use aluminum shafts?Whats your set-up?
I have some 2114's set up for my 50 lb Kodiak but have not hunted with it yet this year. 145 gr Bear Razorheads to go with it.
I use 1916's with my 45# Grizzly. They are tipped with 150gr stingers. I only stand or ground hunt though
1916 Easton Legacys with vintage 145 gr Bear Razorheads for my 45# Hoyt Huntmaster. Have taken deer with both of my Bear bows (47# and 50#) with 2016 Easton Game Getters, the old green ones, with 145 gr Bear Razorheads.
I tend to leave mine a little long, at 29". I draw about 26"
2117's out of a 52# Blacktail. Zwickey 165gr no mercy on the end. Very durable for stump shooting. Took a turkey and 8pt with same arrow/broadhead this season.
1816 w/Zwickey Eskilites - Abbott 47# longbow.
1916 w/Zwickey Eskimos - Brackenbury 45# recurve, Thunderhorn 47# longbow
I shoot 2016's with 190 gr Simmons Interceptors off my Hill Cheetah, 66" 55@27 and my Hill Owl, 68" 55@27. I shoot 1916's with 125 gr points on my Hill Big Five, 66" 50@27
Maddog prairie predator 43@28 draw 27 1816 29" 125 gr magnus. Hoyt Game master 55@28 29.5" 2016 125gr magnus
2018 29" with .160 delta head out of a 52#@28" St. Joe river 62" longbow. I only shoot 20yards and under when hunting.
2219's at 29 inches from 68 pound Bigfoot, Eagle wing and Dale Dye bow.
Widow pch 53@27, Easton superslam 2117s cut 29" shooting 150 up front
1916s with 125 grain heads out of my Zipper SXT with 48lb. Z4 limbs. 2016s with 125 and 135 heads out of my other bows all between 54 and 55lbs. all arrows cut 28inches and I draw 26.
Recently acquired a Blacktail Sitka T2. 58" and 41# at my 28" draw. Shooting an XX75 1916 Tribute cut to 29.25" with a 100gr Stinger Buzzcut 4 blade for a total weight of 432 grs. Three 4" LW shield cut feathers. About 10 grs/lb. Have also shot the same arrow with a Bear razorhead without bleeder and they fly just as well.
Yes, 2117 along with some pine arrows 75lb.spine. Presently using Centaur Big Game heads, and original Wolverines!
Bear 70s Grizzly recurve and Osage selfbow, 53 lbs. I use a moose hide tube, plains style quiver, have use my backquiver, too!
From my 50# Tall Tines recurve I shoot 29" 2114s with 150 grain Magnus broadheads.
Been using aluminum since the beginning. Killed my first deer with a Herter's aluminum in 1962.
Of course I've killed a pile of stuff with wooden shafts, fiberglass and carbon but have probably done more with aluminum than any other.
For years when I shot 70#+ I used Easton 2219 and now since I've dropped back in weight to 55 to 60# @ 28" I use 2216's. Flight characteristics are perfect even though I tell myself I should be shooting a lighter spine.
None of the lighter shafts I've tried shoot as well as the 2216"s.
I've also used a variety of point weights on them from 125 gr. to 190 with no real impact on arrow flight.
1916's with 200gr heads from my 48# Thunderbird (Dacron and soft curves)
Several Hill or Hill style long bows. Just shooting my TEMBO yesterday 45# @ 29" full length 2016 with 125 up front. Also shoot well from my Northern Mist Whisper.
I shoot 2016's XX75's with Ace broadheads out of my Kodiak Mag.Going to finish out the year with aluminum, then I switching to wood.Been hunting since 1978!
Ernie
57@28 widow PSA 2020's and zwickey deltas have taken alot of game for me, I've shot aluminum since I started hunting in the early 70's out of a vast variety of longbows and recurves and usually with deltas on aluminum adapters , I've shot alot of woodies but aluminum is my favorite shaft for alot if reasons , never messed with carbons as I never saw a reason to change
53@28 Toelke Chinook 29 in.1916`s w/100 gr.Stinger 4 blds.
Crooked Stic 3 pc. t/d longbow 51@28, 29.5 in. 2114 w/150 gr. Silver Flame head.
Shoot aluminum out of a couple others but don't currently have anything set up.
Easton Legacy 28in. 2016 XX75 wood grain finish with 2 blade bear 153gr. BH
29" 2114 / 145gr stinger from my Black Widow PSA 48# @ 28"
Shot a lot of carbons the past few years, but I find for myself it's much easier to tune aluminum or wood shafts, jmho.
Gamegetter 2016 out of #45-#50 recurves with 125 magnus stingers
2016 and 2018's from different bows I own.
2016 Legacys or 500 Gamegetters out of my 46@28 Predator Hunter recurve. I use the Gamegetters for stumping. I foot them with a 2" piece of 2215 (I think that is the size). Makes the 500s a lot more durable fo stumping and roving.
I'm shooting a 29.5" 2016 Legacy with a 125 gr. Eskimo. I've used various styles and sizes of Easton aluminum shafting since the 60s for all the positive reasons listed by the previous posters.
Oh! Forgot to mention I'm shooting that arrow combo from a 48# Tall Tines recurve.
Im shooting 29" 1816's...with 125 stingers out of a Bear Montana. They fly great...and I draw 27".
I pull 30" on my longbow and 31" on my recurves and I'm" shooting 31" 2016's from a 50# 21st Century longbow,32" 2117's from a 45# Super K and 32" 2216's from a 52# Hummingbird. I've not shot anything but aluminums since the mid 70's.
I pull 30" on my longbow and 31" on my recurves and I'm shooting 31" 2016's from a 50# 21st Century longbow,32" 2117's from a 45# Super K and 32" 2216's from a 52# Hummingbird. I've not shot anything but aluminums since the mid 70's.