I would like to know what is the fastest recurve on the market today and the FPS it is.God Bless!!!Joey

The one on the fastest jet.    IBO or AMO or what rating system? Black Swan says 206-208 fps. Belcher has a video of one @250fps with VERY light arrows.

It all depends on the weight of the arrow of course, but both the Habu Vyperkahn and the Black Douglas super swift triple carbon with Hex V limbs do deliver speeds in the high end.

fps I don't know!

Margly

FPS isn't everything. You can't miss fast enough to win.

Guy

I don't know the answer to your question but I am curious as to why you're interested in knowing that information.

Please don't take my question in a negative way because it is a good question but I've always wondered the "why" of it's importance to folks.

This is the 1st time that it's been asked this clearly and succinctly.

Thank you in advance.

God bless,Mudd

Speed is a nebulous factor involving the cast of a bow, arrow weight, arrow tuning, and feather lenght, height and fletch angle.  Kind of hard to throw out raw numbers as they don't mean much.

This bow, right here, is one of the fastest. It is the Border Black Douglas Swift. This one has the HEX 4 Limbs. It is a rocket launcher!

     

The one with the lighest arrow.  

Check out the Pirates of Archery Site.

They have some pretty telling figures when it comes to speed, all bows shooting the same GPP arrows.

I will say speed really is some what of a ghost in the darkness. Folks spend time chasing numbers that are just that numbers.

Mudd,Iam not a speed freak or anything,I was at a shoot the other day and a fellow said he had a recurve that would shoot 240FPS,I cant remember what the bow was,I just thought that was allfull fast.No Sir I shoot #35 and #40 1960 Kodiak Special,and have taken mature deer with both.If there is a bow that shoots that fast I just might buy one,of course I might shoot it a little high.God Bless!Joey

one of the guys shooting at a local tournament missed his target and threw his bow, it went pretty fast.lol

Keep it coming guys this is getting interesting.God Bless!!

youve seen me shoot bornagainbowhunter

I sure would like some numbers guys.God Bless!!!Joey

If you can get your hands on a Jack Howard Gamemaster Jet you would have one of the quickest bow Ive seen in 28 yrs.

Pitsley Predator, A&H(Adcock)ACS-CX, Black Swan, Morrison,Zipper, Border, etc etc, the ones at the top are all so close in speed the differences will make just about none in the real world.

i do know .there are several recurves out there that shoot over 200fps but,im sure they are also shooting a light gpp arrow. that just makes no sence to me . if you want a speed demon just go buy a late model compound .i hear some are shooting over 400fps ,many are over 300fps .but none are faster than the speed of sound . so whats the point with the extreeme speed mindset?

i just dont get the point.

         

than again if you want to compaire speed at 10gpp than im more interested synce id actually hunt with the setup as long as its quiet.velosity times mass means penitration to me hence hunting applicable.

It really depends on who you ask, how it was tested, etc.  A friend of mine once got 232 fps out of a longbow--with super light arrows, drawn to 29", and an excellent release.

There's gobs of ways of fudging the numbers, and people will do that for the simple sake of "bragging rights" to the "fastest".  Chrony's are about as reliable as scales too--if they haven't been professionally checked and calibrated, the reading is questionable.  

Nock fit, arrow spine, string construction, serving length, silencers, release (fingers, release aid, Hooter Shooter), draw length, arrow weight, tuning, brace height (drop the brace to 5" and shoot with a Hooter Shooter--you'll get impressive speed, but nobody would ever get real world speeds to compare), etc. etc. etc. all come into play.  You can get speeds from a "test" that nobody will ever get close to in the real world, if you want to play that game.  You can set one bow up to be the fastest, then you can set it up differently and make it a lot slower than another.

Seems that someone put up a pretty good reward a while back, if anyone could provide solid proof of a bow shooting at least 200 fps, pulled to 28", with 10 gpp arrow weight.  I'm pretty sure nobody ever collected on that reward.

I've seen/heard gobs of claims, but haven't seen 200 fps @ 28"/10 gpp yet, and I haven't even heard it from a source that I know is credible.

Belcher bows recurve
5 gpp...350grain arrow out of a 70 lb recurve
255fps.
There are probably any number of high performance bows that could achieve those speeds with that light of an arrow but to what purpose?