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Your Hunting bow weight?

Started by Hit-or-Miss, March 30, 2010, 04:17:00 PM

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Brook Trout


jeff vess


Tater

52 to 58 pounds Recurves and Longbows
Compton Traditional Bowhunters Charter/Life Member
Big Thompson Bowhunters
United Bowhunters of Illinois
TGMM Family of the Bow

ron w

50#-52# @ 29" most of my go to bows, may be dropping back to 46#-48# the way some of them perform!!!
In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities. In the expert's there are few...So the most difficult thing is always to keep your beginner's mind...This is also the real secret of the arts: always be a beginner.  Shunryu Suzuki

the force

34 to 60 and a 65 pounder on order
Hoyt Tiburon

Ragnarok Forge

55 lb at 30.25 inches.  My second bow is being made to the exact same specs so 55lb and 55lb. for everything.
Clay Walker
Skill is not born into anyone.  It is earned thru hard work and perseverance.

lpcjon2

70#'s for it all.Anything else is a woman's weight...LOL   :biglaugh:   Just kidden I am comfortable with that weight and I want to shoot it as long as I can.
Some people live an entire lifetime and wonder if they have ever made a
difference in the world, but the Marines don't have that problem.
—President Ronald Reagan

buckster

My bows range from 47-55# @ 27 1/2", I guess I'm shooting a girlie man's weight but with a 6" screw in my left shoulder, it's about as far as I want to push the pain and "crackle" envelope. LOL.

Most important thing isn't weight but ARROW PLACEMENT >>>>>>>----------------------->>
"Carpe Carp" ... Seize the fish.

Winterhawk1960

My bows range from 42-45# @ 29". I enjoy shooting and can (and do, on occasion) shoot them Allllllllllllllllllll day long.

Winterhawk1960
What if you woke up tomorrow, with only what you thanked God for today ???

James Oertel

life is too short,enjoy it !!!

mcgroundstalker

All my bows are 47#- 50# at my 26" draw. Use 'em for hunting, 3D and stump shooting. Kinda like it that way.  ;)

... mike ...
"Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies"

Arrow4Christ

I mainly shoot 68-71#@30" now, feels pretty ideal.

Craig

Chris Shelton

I am currently shooting 55# for everything.  But I killed my first whitetail with a 40# curve, so I would say that anything whitetail sized and smaller I would use 40#, but I know of women that shoot whitetails with 35#, and our legal minimum is 30#!  So I think you are probably safe with anything 40# and up???
~Chris Shelton
"By failing to prepare you are preparing to fail"~Ben Franklin

bolong

Both of the bows I hunt with are 48 lbs. at my draw length 29 3/4. I'm getting on up in years and I find that weight about right for me. Will kill anything in Arkansas.
bolong

thunder1

No man ever stood so tall as when he stooped to help a child

David

John3

54-58 pound bows that I hunt with.

John III
"There is no excellence in Archery without great labor".  Maurice Thompson 1879

Professional Bowhunters Society--Regular Member
United Bowhunters of Missouri
Compton Life Member #333

Buckeye Trad Hunter

I shoot 50@28 on all my bows but the largest animal around here is a whitetail.  We don't even have hogs yet but unfortunatly they're all around us from what I understand.

SELFBOW19953

50 to 65 depending on the bow, 50 to 54# for 50" or less.  65# in a 62".  Got a 66" Kolometz that's 67#.
SELFBOW19953
USAF Retired (1971-1991)
"Somehow, I feel that arrows made of wood are more in keeping with the spirit of old-time archery and require more of the archer himself than a more modern arrow."  Howard Hill from "Hunting The Hard Way"

KentuckyWolf

54 or 55 @28. I can shoot more, I could shoot less but I like this weight. Not to hot, not to cold...just right. And, its deadly; add a heavy arrow with EFOC, and nothing is safe. I will put it up against anything extant or extinct in North America and almost anything on this planet. Give me some of those rambo "boom" tipped arrows and I will include mechanical monsters on that list too.....haha.
Black Widow PSA III 54@28
Black Widow PLX 54@28

Traddicted

55-60# is a comfortable range for me.


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