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What weight are you shooting?

Started by Flying Dutchman, May 03, 2010, 11:05:00 AM

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Flying Dutchman

Just curious what weights you guys are shooting and with this I mean the ratio in grains/arrow and poundage of your bow in pounds (Grains Per Pounds).

I'll start: I am around 9.5 GGP

SINCE SO MANY ARE ANSWERING, I MADE A POLL FOR THIS QUESTION TOO! THANKS!

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It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that string! [/i]                            :rolleyes:              
Cari-bow Peregrine
Whippenstick Phoenix
Timberghost ordered
SBD strings on all, what else?

Eugene Slagle

My go to bow, my 50* Zona T/D Recurve with my GT Trad Hunter 35/55's @ 445gr. I get 8.9GPP.

My Hoyt Dorado w/ 50* lims is the same but when I use the 40* limbs on it with my GT Entrada 600's 332gr. "indoor & field" I get 8.3GPP

My Sky with the 55* limbs I don't have arrows yet for it but I'm going to shoot for around 9.5+GPP when I set em up
Zona Custom Recurve: 60" 49# @ 27.5".
Sky Sky Hawk Recurve: 60" 47# @ 27.5".
Genesis 27:3 Now therefore, please take thy weapons, thy quiver and thy bow, and go out to the field, and hunt game for me.

Tom

54#@29,CE Heritage, 100 gr.insert,125 bh=550 gr.10gr/gpp.
The essence of the hunt for me is to enter nature and observe+ return safely occasionally with the gift of a life taken.

Tim Fishell

I shoot mostly 57# bows with a 540-550 grain arrow so right around 9.5 GPP.
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KentuckyTJ

Easton Trad Only 500 series carbon shafts - 100 grain brass inserts - 100-125 grain points, 485-500 grain arrows = 9.7-10 gpp for me with my 50# bows.
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string bean

right now they are something like 9.6-9.8gpp
It's not about the kill but the experience.

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70's Bear Kodiak Hunter

Ricoh

Black Widow MAX 53lbs at 28". Try to set up for 9.5 to 10 gr.

Rick

Flying Dutchman

I am very suprised to see that American traditional bowhunters are shooting that low weights! I thought you guys were at least around the 12.....
It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that string! [/i]                            :rolleyes:              
Cari-bow Peregrine
Whippenstick Phoenix
Timberghost ordered
SBD strings on all, what else?

JC

59@27 w/660gr = 11.18gpp
63@27 w/700gr = 11.11gpp
"Being there was good enough..." Charlie Lamb reflecting on a hunt
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cbCrow

On my Harrelson longbow its 12.5gpp Kohannah Kurve its 11.5gpp  :archer:

Dave Lay

widow psaIII recurve 60@28 xx75 2216 @ 9.7gpp

widow PLV longbow    60@28 xx75 2020 @ 9.8 gpp

found that gpp range to work best for me on a huntin arrow, after alot of years messin with it...would bump it up for elk to about 650 gr or about 11gpp if I ever get to go back
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60" Widow SAV recurve 54@28
60" Widow KBX recurve 53@27
64" DGA longbow 48@27

Flying Dutchman

Ok, 11.5 gpp is the heighest bidder......
It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that string! [/i]                            :rolleyes:              
Cari-bow Peregrine
Whippenstick Phoenix
Timberghost ordered
SBD strings on all, what else?

wapiti792

54 @ 29 inch longbow: Shooting 300 3Rivers trads with a 100 gr insert and 250 grains out front. 705 gr total arrow weight...13gr/inch therabouts.
Mike Davenport

Ken Taylor

With my 75lb Caribow longbow I'm shooting arrows that are not quite 700 grains. Precisely calculated, it comes out to 9.20 gpp.

They fly great but I have been thinking of cutting my 31 1/2" arrow slightly and going to a heavier broadhead to increase that to 10 gpp to improve the f.o.c.
May your next adventure lighten your heart, test your spirit, and nourish your soul.

Dale Sharp

"To me, how you take an animal and how you conduct the hunt, and what you gain from the experience is what bowhunting is all about."
-Jay Massey

COLongbow

Shooting a 515 grain CE arrow out of my new Lost Creek. That puts me at 10.7 gpp. Chrono'd at 182 fps. Really wallops the target!
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Flying Dutchman

Oh,

I should have made a poll of this one!!!
It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that string! [/i]                            :rolleyes:              
Cari-bow Peregrine
Whippenstick Phoenix
Timberghost ordered
SBD strings on all, what else?

Eugene Slagle

Dutch, ya should have...  ;)

I get my arrows to where they tune just right & then look at the weight, I tend not to worry about it till my arras get below the 8.0GPP if I'm using it just for target but no less than 8.5GPP for any of my hunting arras.
Zona Custom Recurve: 60" 49# @ 27.5".
Sky Sky Hawk Recurve: 60" 47# @ 27.5".
Genesis 27:3 Now therefore, please take thy weapons, thy quiver and thy bow, and go out to the field, and hunt game for me.

Doug Treat

I'm shooting 630 gr. arrows from a 40# recurve.  15.75 gpp.

Gil Verwey

I am shooting a 680 grain arrow from a 60# longbow. 11.33 gpp

Gil
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