Your favorite deer hunting set-up.....

[awbowman]

62" Toelke Super D, 47#s at 25-1/2", GT 3555s, 50 grain insert with 175 grain 2 blade.  But I'll have some 3 blade instincts tuned before next year

I love the way Black Widows recurves shoot, I prefer the way a longbow handles. I am not familiar with the SIW. My draw is 26.5", my arrows are all 27" bop. I shoot 1918s out of most of my low 50s to upper 50s bows, with slight point weight difference to accommodate the spine requirements. For wood shafts I use 45-50 tapered cedars with 145 Grizzlies for two bows and 55-60 tapered Surewoods with 160 grain Hills or Grizzlies for the rest. For my heavier bows I use 70 pound tapered cedars with 160 single bevel Hills, or the old Kodiak Grizzlies at I believe 170 grains.  I do not worry about the foc with these arrows, it is apparently plenty to get pass throughs on whitetails in Iowa.

[archer66]

Originally posted by pavan:
I love the way Black Widows recurves shoot, I prefer the way a longbow handles. I am not familiar with the SIW.

According to Black Widow....I called them before I bought the bow....the SIW was a "precursor" to their current PSR bows.  They said the SIW has a shorter riser and the redesign of the riser resulted in the PSR.  He said performance should be essentially the same but that the SIW is more prone to hand torque.

[ISP 5353]

64" Palmer recurve.  54# at my 30' draw.  Shooting Beman ICS Hunter shafts, .400 spine.  3 fletch 4" LW feathers.  150 grain VPA 3 Blades or Magnus Stinger 2 blades.

[Orion]

I hunt with a half-dozen or so bows -- longbows, hybrids and recurves around 50# plus or minus a little, and shoot wood and carbon arrows about 550 to 600 grains. I may take one out in the morning and another in the afternoon.  They all shoot well.

Shot a turkey with a 50# Bear TD and GT carbon arrow last spring, an elk with a 52# A&H ACS and Easton Axis shaft in early fall, and a nice buck with a 50# Morrison Shawnee recurve and Sweetland Forgewood compressed cedars in late fall.

I like shooting a lot of different bows.

[Thumper Dunker]

What Chuck said .

[attack]

Hopefully this year it will be my 56" Check-Mate Firebird 57# @ 28". This bow is ridiculously smooth and forgiving. This will be my first year hunting trad.
 

[Sapcut]

Black Widow PSAX 71@31

Gold Tip Ultralight 300 31.5"

50 gr. Double footing
200 gr. insert/adapter
300 gr. TuffHead
3 3" A&A rocket fins
830 gr total weight with 32% FOC

[1flyfish]

JD Berry Morningstar ASL longbow 51@27 with sitka spruce shafts spined 50-54 with 125 zwickey eskimos up front.

[Vesty]

66" 51@28 Two Tracks Echo longbow. 29" douglas fir tipped with 160gn. Stos. This is about to change. I pulled the trigger on a NM Classic. 51#@27. The K-zoo Expo always gets me into trouble.

[goingoldskool]

66" Black Widow PL-III 53# @ 28
CE 250 heritage with 20 gr. insert
175 gr Simmons Tigershark

Good deer medicine!


God bless,
Rodd

[Pointer]

I think my best has always been my '73 Super Kodiak with GT 55/75s.It's 52@30", I use 50 gr brass inserts and either a Bear Razorhead or 125 grain Magnus Stinger. One of the only 60" recurves I can shoot comfortably at my draw length..The bow just has MOJO..lol

[Rock 'N Bow]

Wapiti Spike, #58@29", 75-80 Surewood with Zwickey Deltas and 5" shield cut feathers.

[akaboomer]

Roy Hall Navajo Chief 58" 53# @28
Beman ICS 400 Hunters (never weighed them but they hit like a hammmer)
Simmons Treesharks
3 5" shield cut right wing

This has been my only bow for going on 10 years.

I did just receive Hope the St. Jude's bow by Sarrels. Blue Ridge 60" 54# @28"
Same arrows as my Navajo
I could see me falling in love with this bow.
She was tuned in a matter of minutes and handles like a dream. There is a slight difference in cast that took me three groups to dial in.  If the weather and deer cooperate I should add some "mojo" next weekend.

Chris

[wooddamon1]

Got this late this past season, Cari-bow Tuktu Ex, 53#@28", 60". Probably shooting woodies, depends on what survives the time until next season. Made up a few to get tuned for it.

[Cootling]

A 54# 60" Pronghorn with 250 grains on the front of 500 spine carbons.

[J-dog]

Silver tip 55@28, axis 400s w/original woodsmans and or screw in VPAs 175s or 200s.

[nontypical]

This yr it will be a Morrison Leadwood 19" ILF w/47# medium max 1 carbon/foam recurve limbs shooting 30" GT 3555 w/100 grn brass insert and 125 DRT.

[stykshooter]

Dale Dye Medicine Point 62"65@28

[Alexander Traditional]

I'm loving a three piece Big Jim Buffalo bow I just recently got. It's 54@28. I've got some 55/75 Gold Tip Heritage arrows that are cut to 28.5. The broadhead i've got is a Grizzly Instinct that is 200 grains with a 125 grain insert for 325 grains up front. I think it makes a 640 grain arrow. I zipped right through a whitetail this past season.