Chrono 60-65# Bear recurves.....?

[SirRobin77]

Hey guys i was wondering somthing. ON AVERAGE...will a 60-65#
Bear recurve with  an arrow weight ratio of 9 gpp  shoot over 200 ft per sec? If you have one and have chronoed it post your results.
Thanks Matt

[Guru]

At 28" probably no....but ya never know when you might get a race horse....

Very few bows will at 28"

[SirRobin77]

I pull 30" so what if it was 65# @ 30" ?

[George D. Stout]

I had a 68# Custom Kodiak in 1981 (when I was considerably younger) that I shot through a chronograph at the Pa. Bowhunter Festival.  It averaged 196 fps with a 1718 Gordon Graphlex arrow.  They said the arrow weighed 550'ish grains....they weighed your arrow before you shot.  The arrow was 29" long and I pulled just a hair over 28 1/2.  At that rate, I suspect you could hit 200 with a 65 at 30.  All I can tell you about that was my buddy sold his Jennings Shooting Star the next week and bought a Bear recurve.  The Jennings shot 187 at that time and it was near 70 pounds.  I believe that was the last I ever chronographed a bow.....maybe one time after that.  Darn CRS.

[Brian Krebs]

George: I was considerably younger in 1981 too !    

It must have been the beginning of the chronograph meets arrow speed days. I remember going to an Anderson Archery Clinic in Grand Ledge Michigan in 1982; and they had a chronograph there too.

I was shooting a Bear Kodiak - 60 pounds at 28 inches; and I shot a 31 inch arrow almost to the hilt. I was shooting 125 grain field points; and 2216 shaft at 31 inches; and I was spitting them out at 217 FPS. I shot barefinger and I shoot with 2 fingers so I might have gotten some FPS that way.

I remember that Tom Jennings was there and people were mad at him because my recurve was shooting faster than their compounds.

I have no idea what the weight of the arrow was; I was shooting 5 inch fletch.

[Michl]

200fps with a real 30" draw is possible.