Right now I'm shooting a 55lb Hoyt Dorado with Easton Axis 340's - 75 grain insert and a 150 magnus stinger.

It did the job this year.  Of the two bows I've killed deer with, this has been my favorite!  

I'm the year after next it will be a new bow      

I got the go-ahead to get a new one!

Yellowstone Hunter 60" 62@26"
Arrows are Surewood shafts, pink and black marble dip, 125 gr. S.T.O.S.

QuoteOriginally posted by TRAP:
   

62" Tall Tines Recurve 55#@28"
AD Trads with VPA 3-Blades

Trap, that is a fine looking bow.

       I keep leaning towards my 55@28 64" widow PLV but I will probably just stick with my proven killer and my quietest bow that seems to just be the perfect hunting bow for me, my 60" 60@28 widow PSA, asbell grip with xx75 2020's and Zwickey deltas or I may try a 3 blade this year..   I have so much confidence in this set up, its really hard to try something else..

I am shooting my Pronghorn Longbow 62" 52@28 Axis 500 with Zwickey Delta two blade. My backup is Pronghorn Longbow 62" 51@28.

I've harvested deer with recurves from 50-70 lbs and arrows of all weights. For right now (youth is passing) I've settled on 60lbs, 58"-60", and just less than 600 gr multi blade arrows.
Any more weight on the bow or arrow (more than 10 grains per pound) reduces my accuracy too much and any less reduces my penetration and messes with my release too much.

I've also shot bows from 52"-64" in length and have found that 58"-60" is a real sweet spot for the average sized person between too short (reduces accuracy) and too long (hitting limbs ect)
I am 5'9" and have a 28.5" draw just for info

Last year, I shot 2 bows. One is a HHA Cheetah, 68" drawing 55# at 28". The other is a NM Shelton that is 68" long, pulling 53# at 28". I actually only pull 25". I have another Shelton on order made of yew with the same specs as the first. Both of my current bows shoot either 50-55# or 55-60% wood arrows with 125 grain Zwickey 2 blade heads.

Camo limb Silvertip 60" 55# @ 28". 400 Full Metal Jackets 100 grain inserts VPA 175 3 blades.

Get to try my Blacktail Elite TD this year. 64" 55#@28", shooting Legacy 2219 with 190g Tree Sharks. I have played around with the carbons and aluminum, bare shafting and all, and the 2219's fly the best after much tuning.

I've been using a Huntworthy Productions Outlaw, for the past four or five years. It's an all natural, laminated R/D hybrid longbow, with a bamboo back and carbonised bamboo belly. 51@28, 65 1/4" tip to tip.

I shoot 29" Gold Tip Traditionals, with 4" parabolic fletching, left helical, with 125 gr. original Woodsman broadheads and stock inserts, with a total weight of 429 gr. (8.6 GPP)


Bob

In my signature are specs...
 

Palmer recurve, 64" 54lbs at my draw.  Beman ICS Hunter .400 with 150gr 3 blade VPA broadheads.

Schafer 1pc. 52#, 27.5" Cedars with Bear Razorheads.

TallTines Stickflinger 60" 55@27"

400 FMJ footed. 75gr. insert with abowyer bonehead made up to be 220gr.

Morrison Shawnee longbow 62" and 50@28 with 29" 500 Beman MFX with 100 grain brass insert and Centaur single bevel Big Game heads.(625 grains total).

A&H ACS, 3 pc takedown, 62", 55lb at my 28" draw.
Grizzlystics Alaskans cut to 30", 5" shield - left helical feathers, 100 grain brass inserts with 125 gr 4 blade Magnus Stingers.

Treadway Black Forest, 64", 47@31

400 spine Black Eagle Carnivores with 44 grain brass inserts with Magnus Stingers, Dead Right There, and Steelforce broadheads coming in at 450 grains.