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Author Topic: Game with a 41# bow  (Read 2395 times)

Offline Wilderlife

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Re: Game with a 41# bow
« Reply #20 on: October 22, 2019, 04:59:21 PM »
Fallow deer are definitely good eating, mate. I'm biased though, as it makes up 90% of my diet. Currently up to about 65 fallow since last Christmas, but I'd say about half of them have been eaten by my partner and I. 23 of them were shot for the human consumption market and the rest have been given away. Even with the terrible drought out here at the moment, the deer are eating exceptionally well.

Of all those deer however, none have been taken with a both (trad or compound), which is why I'm upping my game big time to be good over our summer. I don't have access to big country out here like you do with high country mule deer in Colorado for example, but I have spots in thick, isolated bush, where I know bucks bed throughout the day. Come February and early March I'll be getting super sneaky, and then when the rut is in full swing in  mid-April, I'll be rattling them in and hopefully shooting instinctively with confidence.

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Re: Game with a 41# bow
« Reply #21 on: October 22, 2019, 05:43:52 PM »
I encourage every bow hunter to shoot as much poundage as they can, with accuracy.
I so too far often read these threads about low poundage bows.  Often, that is all the shoot is able to handle.  Unfortunately many times the shooter does not want to invest the effort to shoot more.  I get that.  Last year I hunted with a 55# Covert Hunter and 585 grain aluminum arrows.  Unfortunately I have not been able to shoot 3 days a weeks this year for most of the summer leading up to season, so I had to drop back to 46# for most of the summer.  I am now comfortably shooting a 50.5# Covert Hunter with 530 grain arrows.

If you have to shoot lower poundage, then use a common sense approach to your arrow weight, broadhead weight, and broadhead style.  Better to have a 1 1/8" wide two blade pass through than a big 4 blade not.....
Super Curves.....
Covert Hunter Hex9h
Morrison Max 6 ILF
Mountain Muffler strings to keep them quiet
Shoot as much weight as you can with accuracy

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Re: Game with a 41# bow
« Reply #22 on: October 22, 2019, 05:52:31 PM »
We also need to consider bow efficiency.  A 41# straight limb long bow vs. a set of 41# limbs on my Cover Hunter?
At 10 gpp, I would expect at least 30 fps faster from the "super curves".

I equate the draw weight issue to engine size in a car.  Lots of cars have the same motor size but certainly yield different performance based on the size/weight of the car they are propelling.
Super Curves.....
Covert Hunter Hex9h
Morrison Max 6 ILF
Mountain Muffler strings to keep them quiet
Shoot as much weight as you can with accuracy

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Re: Game with a 41# bow
« Reply #23 on: October 22, 2019, 06:39:19 PM »
Everyone is typing 41lbs but the reality it's 3lbs less due to his draw length being an inch under the rated draw length.   Factor also that power stroke is shortened and that hurts efficiency as well.  Let's talk apples to apples not apples to whatever others are shooting.

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Offline ozy clint

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Re: Game with a 41# bow
« Reply #24 on: October 22, 2019, 08:07:40 PM »
GCook- That's the point I tried to convey earlier.
Thick fog slowly lifts
Jagged peaks and hairy beast
Food for soul and body.

Border black douglas recurve 70# and 58# HEX6 BB2 limbs

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