Need a little help

[bear bowman]

I'm planning on buying another bow. It will be the same bow I'm currently shooting just 5# heavier. I'm currently shooting 45# at my draw length.
My question is, do you think I'll be able to shoot the same arrows I currently use with maybe some point weight change? I'm shooting gold tips. I'm shooting 500's with 175 up front currently.

[Bladepeek]

I'd say that depends on which GTs you're shooting and at which end of the dynamic spine range you are now. I can use the same GT arrows (both 500 & 600 spine)arrows on my 38# Blacktail or 46# RER depending on length and tip weight.

[AZ_Longbow]

Shoot and see, Im betting you can, if anything like you said a point weight adjust.

[McDave]

If your 45# bow/arrow is in tune now with 175 gr points, I'm sure an otherwise identical bow at 50# will be in tune with the same arrows at 125gr (+ or -).  Whether that's the direction you want to go is a different question.  Usually, people go up in weight to hunt, not shoot targets.  Usually, people want heavier broadheads for hunting.  To keep your 175 gr point weight, you might have to go up in spine in arrows.

If you're pulling your 45# bow easily, maybe you'll pull your 50# bow to full draw.  Sometimes if people are struggling getting the bow back, they might not quite make it to full draw, in which case the increase in poundage is somewhat less than marked.

[Fletcher]

You can also tune the bow to match the arrows.  Building the side plate out just a bit will lower the dynamic spine requirement for the bow.

[WVbowhunter]

Drop 25 grains from up front and you should be close as long as everything else is the same

[Bud B.]

Try the 175s on the 50# bow. You might be surprised. Carbons recover very quickly. You should not have to go less than 125grs, I would think. Even 145s might work.

[slowbowjoe]

And if you like the heavier BH's on the same shaft, you probably have room to shorten them IF
you need to.

[katman]

Originally posted by slowbowjoe:
And if you like the heavier BH's on the same shaft, you probably have room to shorten them IF
you need to.

x2, won't take much shortening.