Lets see your arrow weight,bow weight and grains per pound for your hunting arrows. Im shooting 560 gr arrow for my 38&40 pound longbows. Thats 14&14.7gpp

560 TOTAL WEIGHT, 44# @28, 12.7 GPI

530gr 41@27 12.9 GPI 3 Blade Woodsmen 

My normal set up is a 52@ 27" pound bow, a 540 grain arrow, and a two blade eskimo for an average grains per pound of 10.38.

I made my recent bear hunt with a 48@27 bow with a 525 grain arrow for 10.93 grains per pound.

I'm still undecided on what my setup will be for this fall.

540-550 grain wood arrows from a 49# longbow so about 11 gpp.

Good Lord, trad_bowhunter1965, the arrows in your pic are stunning!

585gr from my 60 to 65 pound bows.

535 from my 50 pound bows.

All 4 blade Zwickeys.

I've been playing around with various arrow builds out of my 46#/30" longbow.

I really like shooting heavy arrows, but I've been playing around with some lower weight builds that I'm really enjoying. My hunting arrows for last season were 670ish grains (info below), and right now I'm working on some hunting arrows that are about 575 grains. At my low draw weight, the lighter arrows have better flight overall, they're much faster, and my point on distance is greatly increased.

I'm primarily hunting whitetail... I'm not terribly worried about a 574gn arrow with a sharp cut on contact broadhead for whitetail at 20 yards and in.

Older Arrows
Shaft: Sirius Archery Tradstar 350 @31" 8GPI = 248gn
Insert: 200gn Stainless Insert/Outsert = 200gn
Broadhead: 200gn RMS Cutthroat = 200gn
Nock: Stock = 11gn
Fletching: 5" Feathers x 3 (4.10gn/ea) = 12.3gn
Total: 671.3gn
FOC: 27.34%
GPP: 14.59

New Hunting Arrows - Test
Shaft: Gold Tip Traditional 500 Spine @31" 10.2 GPI = 316.2gn
Insert: Stainless Insert = 74gn
Broadhead: 160gn Ace Standard = 160gn
Nock: Stock = 12gn
Fletching: 5" Feathers x 3 (4.10gn/ea) = 12.3gn
Total: 574.5gn
FOC: 16.8%
GPP: 12.48

565gr  45@28 13 gpp

3 blade 200 gr VPA

30-1/2" Douglas fir at 610 gr. (tapered to 5/16" over the last 9").  52# Red Wing Hunter @28" (drawn to about 29-3/4", so 54# +/-). Gives 11.29 gpp(?).  I usually get full penetration on whitetails.

Have over a dozen hunting setups. The following is just one that I have been using as of late and is indicative of my typical hunting arrow design.

Bow: BW PCH...58"... 48@28
Shaft: BE Carnivore 400...29 ¾"....6.8 gpp
Insert: 150 gn Brass Insert
Broadhead: 190 gn Simmons Tree Shark or 190 gn TimberShark
Nock: 12gn
Fletching: 4" Shield
FOC: 28.7%
GPP: 11.7
Total: 563gn

With 52-55# 600 grs, 60# 650grs

Quote from: Snow Crow on June 20, 2025, 11:21:29 AMGood Lord, trad_bowhunter1965, the arrows in your pic are stunning!

Thank you sir if you ever want to make them it's easy  I'll be happy to tell you how.

This years setup will be tapered hickory shafts with 275gr up from for 950-1000gr from a 65# bamboo backed Ipe ELB at around 145 fps. Did I want that weight, nope. But I wanted to try out some hickory arrows and it's just where they ended up by the time I got them shooting well.

Kyle

60# to 67#, arrows 675-825grains.  Sure are quiet.

Thanks for the answers. Good to see these arrow weights. Some say i shoot to heavy but they fly great and my bow is dead quiet.

This year it's a 35# at 30" draw hybrid longbow shooting 525gr arrows. 15gpp

Wood arrows 30 1/2"
630 grains on most arrows. (Setups range from 600 grains to 650 depending upon species and particular dozen, all fly to the same spot out to 25 yards)
190 grain broadheads
47# @ 30" & 50# @ 30 (both bows tune to the same arrow)

For most of the last 25 years: 55/60# spine Sherwood shaft arrows, 29 1/2" to back of the broadhead; 145 grains Eclipse broadhead; Total weight 615-640 grains; Three, 5" to 5 1/2" feathers; Bow - 58# @ 28 1/2" Osage selfbow.

Have made all my personal bows the same specs for over 25 years. Have three new bows ready (all Osage selfbows, 58# @ 28 1/2") and a fourth will be ready by the end of this weekend. Have not decided on this years bow yet, will shoot them all next week at the PBS odd year in the Big Horns, then decide. A super-cub will be dropping me in the AK bush for 23 days in September, so one of the two takedowns are currently at the top of my list.

For over 25 years 585 grains out of my 60 to 70# bows.

Now I have a 50 and a 52# bow and I'm shooting 535 grains out of them.