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Author Topic: Is 40# enough?  (Read 1867 times)

Online Captain*Kirk

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Re: Is 40# enough?
« Reply #20 on: October 02, 2016, 10:36:00 PM »
Absolutely.
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Offline Doc Nock

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Re: Is 40# enough?
« Reply #21 on: October 03, 2016, 08:57:00 AM »
Will it get the job done? As the posters all agree, absolutely YES!!! Right gear will "git er done".

What I've not seen are folks encouraging you to ensure that your state's game laws ALLOW that level...

I have been in states that required minimum draw weights... and some are right at 40 as I recall.

Unfortunate, because all draw weights are NOT equal in efficiency, given the variety of bow designs and builds.

But the law is the law... I can just see some poorly informed enforcement officer tagging a guy with a 30 inch draw shooting a bow marked below the weight but at 28" draw and it's just not so... makes it hard on those folks trying to keep and preserve the law... but  it is what it is!

Go, have fun but know what is required in your area and wherever you hunt...
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Re: Is 40# enough?
« Reply #22 on: October 03, 2016, 09:01:00 PM »
Doc, third post down from the original post. :-)

Offline T Folts

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Re: Is 40# enough?
« Reply #23 on: October 04, 2016, 07:53:00 AM »
I shot a 10 point with a 40# bow. Arrow hanging out by the feathers. So yes
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Offline Ron LaClair

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Re: Is 40# enough?
« Reply #24 on: October 04, 2016, 08:44:00 AM »
My wife took her first deer with a Bear, Ladies Polar, 25#@ 24" cedar arrow, Bear Razorhead without the insert. Michigan has no weight limit.

   
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Re: Is 40# enough?
« Reply #25 on: October 04, 2016, 10:40:00 AM »
Beautiful picture, Ron!!!!! Thanks for sharing!
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Offline Terry Green

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Re: Is 40# enough?
« Reply #26 on: October 04, 2016, 10:54:00 AM »
Ron that's a great testimony to the Bow... and it shows that whitetail deer don't need all the hoopla that has been claimed since the invention of the internet!!!!!!!!!!
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Re: Is 40# enough?
« Reply #27 on: October 05, 2016, 04:54:00 PM »
Once in the early 70s, a friendly guy with one of those solid fiberglass Pearson reflex  60" inch kid bows, green, parked by me.  It was either a 35 or maybe a 40 pounder.  His three blade broad heads were not sharp.  I file sharpened them for him.  I had an 85 pound longbow that day, I was thinking that this was not good, but he was a nice guy and said nothing.  Three hours later he came to me and said, "I shot a deer and don't know what to do.  I could use some help."  About a 150 yard blood trail to the area dominate.  I borrowed him my knife and gave him a lesson on field dressing a deer, then helped drag it to his car.

Offline Krex1010

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Re: Is 40# enough?
« Reply #28 on: October 06, 2016, 11:37:00 AM »
Over in the Dangerous Game forum guys are talking about killing brown bears and water buffalo with 50-55# bows......I think 40 is plenty for a whitetail.
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Offline Brett Hammons

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Re: Is 40# enough?
« Reply #29 on: October 25, 2016, 03:26:00 PM »

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Re: Is 40# enough?
« Reply #30 on: October 25, 2016, 03:31:00 PM »
yes
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Offline Terry Green

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Re: Is 40# enough?
« Reply #31 on: October 25, 2016, 03:31:00 PM »
yes...dead horse....but not enough for squirrels....
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