Moose - How low can you go ???

[Mooseman]

Darryl, nice bull, eh?

[RayMO]

Mooseman,

One thing is for sure...your a blessed man to have a wife that wants to go after Moose with ya!

And the picture gets me all excited just looking at it. Not sure I could hit a thing with a Moose like that at 6 yards, but I sure would like to try.

RayMO

[LITTLEBIGMAN]

It was an incredible experience to say the least!

 

[Mooseman]

Nice bull Jim. Nice bow too!
And now comes the fun part of packing him out    

RayMO, You have no idea how blessed I am with my wife    She is out there in camp with us for two month in the year and does everything else but hunt. There is actually roomers out there that she works harder then most man, especially me and I would have to agree.
My question was actually for a friend's wife.

[Joseph]

My wife shot a 1400 pound Bison with a 46# @ 28 inch recurve that she was drawing 26 inches at the time and buried the arrow up to the feathers with a 620 grain arrow tipped with a Eclipse BH.  Joseph

[tecum-tha]

A real important factor is the draw length of your wife. Most american longbows and recurves are not buildt for shorter draws,because the short draw people are a small percentage of the customers.  I only draw about 25", but my bow shoots a 600 gr. arrow with 185 fps with a 70#@28,so I have about 61# on my fingers Bow length is 48". This bow is a korean Hwarang model 25 bow.I shoot a 28" CX Heritage 150 with a 100gr insert and 175gr. fieldpoint/broadhead.
This bow feels like 10# lighter compared to my other longbows and recurves at full draw which helps a lot. Price is $440 shipped to your door for under 60#@28".When is comes to distance, the same arrow I shoot 230 yards+. I once shot a 700gr. arrow and still got 165 fps with this short draw. Another good arrow is a Beman MFX 500 withreal heavy tip(225 gr.)Go figure:-))

[Drew]

"Nice photo of a nice bull, Mooseman. Makes my heart pump just looking at it. LOL Darryl"

Mooseman and darryl I enjoyed watching the hunt on DVD last night...someday hope to get a chance to hunt a moose! The grouse action was awesome too!!

[dagwood64]

Check out the ACS/CX Longbow site. The way they are designed you should get 10-15 percent more performance out of the Bow. So a 45# Bow should give you about the same performance as a 50# Bow. I noticed that my 47# really zips out my 640gr Grizzlystiks.  Duane

[Overspined]

Howard Hill stated that a 40# bow with an arrow of a certain weight (forget but reasonably heavy) was capable of cleanly killing all deer species in North America. He stated that arrow weight was a critical factor. I could look it up if you want, but basically a 50# bow with a heavy arrow and no shoulder=kill shot. Those scapulas are big, and really too high for what we would be shooting at, so a good lung hit on a moose with any sharp head will seal the deal relatively easily, they are thin skinned as well.

[Orion]

Maybe the moose you shoot are thin skinned, but the ones I shoot sure aren't.  Skin over the ribs is at least 1/4 to 3/8 inches thick, more than a half inch toward the back, where one wouldn't want to hit them anyway.  That's just skin thickness, not hair.  There are beasts with thicker and perhaps tougher skin, but I don't consider a moose thin skinned.

[**DONOTDELETE**]

Hows it going Mike? Wow thats a nice bull in the pic.


I have never hunt them monsters, but have read a lot & what everyone is saying about 50# with a very scary sharp BH well placed will do the trick.

[Orion]

"Personally, I like a bow as heavy as I can handle without straining....  In shooting animals such as wild boar, moose, elk, and wild jackass, one wants a reserve of penetration so that if a large bone is hit, or a thick shield, ... the arrow will not be stopped....  One hears how effective a bow and arrow is and that a 50-pound bow will kill any animal in America.  In some cases this is true, yet there are many other occasions where a 50-pound bow just does not have the power.  If one can place the arrow right in the chest cavity, a 50-pound bow will do the trick, but is is not always possible to find an animal standing in the proper position for a perfect chest shot."  Howard Hill, Hunting the Hard Way, pp. 73-74.

[Doc Nock]

How many years ago was it they did articles in TBM on the women hunting in africa w/ bows in the mid-40# range and very, very heavy arrows??

They kicked butt as memory serves me on a variety of plains game and some were sizeable, but that is when memory gets foggy on details.

I'll 2nd the notion on thick moose hide. Living in MT in the early 80's, a guy brought in a tanned moose hide to get chaps made... unsplit!

 They were some heavy when done...Wore em once in the rain and brought them back to be undone, sent out to be split in Billings to half thickness. Guess the rain made em pretty heavy!

[Jason R. Wesbrock]

Doc Nock,

The article you're referring to was in the April/May 2002 issue. "You're Hunting With That?", by Tina Portman.

http://www.tradbow.com/INTERACTIVE/GETISSUES_Detail.cfm?ID=99

[Doc Nock]

JRW,

Man, you're sumpin, bro! I'd never have been able to find that...

That article sure made me sit up and take notice... It's the reason I went to carbons and started weighting them up...straight, don't waste energy wigglin down range in pradox and I got mine to 615 gr outa a 50# bow and have never looked back.

[b.glass]

I want to go moose hunting!!