Time for a lighter # Shrew.....

[DeerSpotter]

That's the first thing I did this year, I orded two bows from Chad Holm & they tuned out great.

one for hunting & one 7# lighter for workout But it is a great looking bow, Chad Holm had a deer burned in to the riser and it looks great and nice wood that go to gather.  It is realy two deer. That are two hunting stories from the same day !


Carl

One of the dumbest things I ever did was not listen to John Schulz in the first place.  He thought I was going for too long and way too heavy of a bow.  He recommended 55 pounds and a 2 inch shorter draw. I wanted to go heavy, I worked very very hard to handle very heavy bows and I did fairly well with them.  However, for someone like me, that likes to shoot lots and lots of arrows it is a catch 22.  You need to practice a lot to be able to shoot 90 pounders and at the same time, the more you practice the greater the the wear and tear and chance for injury. Over time the bad outweighs the good. Now 64 pounds is my heavy and 51 is my standard. My wife has never lost a deer hit with her 38 pound recurve and the only deer that she did not get complete   or pass through penetration, the arrow was completely inside the deer.  It jumped the string and hit it in the rear and stopped at the far front  shoulder.  Shoot healthy, it is just as much fun to shoot deer with a lighter bow and often better. It is the arrow that kills, not the number on the side of the bow.

[KentuckyTJ]

Yep, I recently got a new to me 46 lb Centaur Chimera and love it. I can shoot it all day long. With todays bow designs and new skinny FF strings going down in weight doesn't equate into as big a loss in performance as it used to.