Why all the lightweight bows!?

[Keith Westbrook]

45#s = 60#s = FAKE NEWS!

[Terry Green]

Thanks for proving my point Ron that BLACK bears are chumps....

Please don't take what I'm saying is wrong it also proves the power of the bow... but has no proportional reality of disproving some people's claims and still doesn't disprove heavier is not more efficient.

I'm glad lighter bows work so more people can enjoy the sport and for longers years...but let's just don't make claims that are false about heavier bows ....it's not fair it's, its not right, it's not true.... it's only bias.

[Gordon Jabben]

I agree with Terry and Keith.  I was at a shoot in Oklahoma City a few years back and a husky young man around eighteen told me that his 40# bow and carbon arrow was all he would ever need for hunting.  Most likely he had never shot anything with a bow and I hated to see this mindset because I believe it will result in more wounded game.  I think you should shoot as heavy as you can control while hunting.  Now that I'm older and have to drop down in weight, I have had a time or two when a heavier bow might have made a difference on a marginal hit.

[Terry Green]

Gordon I hear you but I just want to make sure everyone realizes, this is not about me.... this is about the proof in the numbers regardless if its me or Dr. Seuss posting.

The numbers do not lie that's the way is.... folks can either accept or not, but it's still true where they do or not.

Originally posted by Terry Green:
Actually accuracy is most important... and it doesn't take much to get through a deer

I've never had the opportunity to shoot a bear but have let the air outta a good many whitetails back in the day....@50# like a hot knife through butter...

I hunt with 42# at my draw with confidence knowing it will be sufficient if I do my part.

[Stumpkiller]

Originally posted by old_goat2:
 

Originally posted by Ulysseys:
There are so many good deals on bows that I've always wanted to try but it seems like nobody shoots over 45# anymore.  Are guys actually hunting with bows in the 43-45 lb range?  

Look at the vintage bows for sale, very few in higher poundages, how come you're shooting so heavy?  I think the first responder above nailed a lot of it! Also a lot of guys are learning proper form and drawing past 28" which also calls for a lower at 28" draw bow. Draw length trumps draw weight. [/b]

I draw all of 29-1/2" (I usually just nock and head taper a 32" shaft for 31" BOP) and I add 5# or so to the listed 28" AMO weight.  My favorite bow is 52# @ 28".  Normally I get an entry and exit hole - several kept on going on the backside of whitetails.  I like to hunt small game and stump shoot and I would think more energy would just be tougher on the wood shafts hitting rocks or hardwood.

The last deer I took was with a 47# ("45xx") and the broadhead stopped a foot beyond the far hide.

Right now I'm shooting a 56" Browning Wasp marked 45#.  I haven't chrono'd it but the arrows seem to get to the targets just fine.  Since I limit my shots to 20 yards or so I don't need more for whitetail.

When I use a bow I use it lots (almost every day year-round) and I have owned up to 65# trad bows - a Dan Quillian Patriot - or should I say they owned me?  I can't do a 60 shot event with even a 60# bow and keep consistent.  I can with 45# to 55# marked bow.  So that's what I use.

[M60gunner]

The biggest reason so many vintage bows are in the 45# range is because that was what the average guy could handle off the rack. Most bowhunters back then were gun hunters first. Bow hunting was a way to get into the woods more. Remember Fred Bear's "two season hunter adds".
Possibly the best comment I have seen so far is the one about aging.

[Terry Green]

Make no mistake when I get older and have to drop down in weight I will do so but I won't disgrace heavier bows or make up stuff to justify my reasoning for moving down I will not go against facts and logic and physics.  I would embrace my knowledge of the bow regardless of the weight and my abilities and will taking my accuracy as paramount among all other aspects .....

but again I will never disguise my actions and trash the logic the physics the facts or others that shoot bows heavier than me as some do now.

FOC.... make sure you understand that term because that's another fallacy that is being spun around... going from 500 grain arrow to the 600 grain arrow is more important than the FOC ...just adding FOC adds a little bit but adding weight to the total arrow means more. The magic is in the weight of the arrow.... the FOC is just the icing on the cake.

Yep I've done my numbers on this as well....if anyone has anything to say about this let me ask you this first.... where did you get your information on FOC that makes you think it's more important than the total Arrow weight?....
where did the biggest study on FOC originate and who requested it???

If you don't know maybe you're just parroting what you've heard ....Polly want a cracker???

[Terry Green]

Too many fake post fake accusations and claims are not true had nothing to do with this issue just to justify lighter weights..... so many so easily offended this is like the mainstream media.... thread closed