Ideal grains per pound???

[Mike Vines]

All mine are between 12.5 - 13 gpp.

[sweeney3]

As heavy as I can get and not have to perform mortar gunnary to hit.

[SaltyDawg]

The absolute best arrow weight to bow draw weight I have ever used was 6.3020833 gpp, but that was on a 96# bow, so maybe it don't count.

Rick

[FarmerMarley]

Right now I am shooting 12.65 and that seems to be working great for me. I like some weight in my arrows. Where my local club shoots 3D it is always windy and I love to see how my heavy arrows are far less affected by the wind then my friends'!

[kat]

10-12. 12 for hunting and closer to 10 for targets.

[Hoyt]

Most of my setups are around 10 to 12.

[JimB]

There have been at least a couplr polls in the past.Here is Flying Dutchman's.
  http://tradgang.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=088382

Another one.
 http://tradgang.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=109790;p=1#000000

[RUTANDSTRUT]

i shoot 8-9 for 3d and competition
i shoot 10-13 for hunting.  i tend to lean more toward the 12 or 13 for hunting.  i never complained about too much penetration!

[elkbreath]

Same with everyone. 9-13 wherever they land when shooting straight.   The 9.5  one is an 83# bow, sort of an anomaly

[Elk whisperer]

11 at 180fps for me

[frassettor]

I'm at 12.3

[Burnsie]

I probably ought to go figure that out, be back in awhile.

[Coiloil37]

So most of you guys are running 10-11 GPP. Does that have anything to do with the poundage of the bow and the overall arrow weight? I'm shooting three bows all at 30" I've got 65, 75, 85 lbs. So if I'm at 10 GPP my arrows would be significantly heavier then most who've responded to this thread. I've got a set of 800 grain surewoods that I'm shooting and to be honest I'm sure I'm giving up trajectory over something like a 600-650 grain arrow. And I'm pretty much positive a 600 grain arrow is heavy enough for north American game. Opinions?

[Dan Adair]

My 3D setup is about 11 GPP, my hunting setup is about 9 GPP.

Ironic, I know.

Coil, I've never found a critter in Montana that a 550 grain arrow wasn't enough.

[Tony Sanders]

10+ for me as well.

[straight_arrow]

Depends on the bow...11 for my Wapiti, 12 for my Silver Tip.

[Jason R. Wesbrock]

My primary hunting setup is a touch under 9 gpp.

[awbowman]

Don't know what the ideal is, but my current setup is 12.3 gpp.  I like it.

[Lonala]

10 to 12 grn