Is there to heavy of an arrow?

[Sockrsblur]

Great read! Love the thoughts, knowledge, and conversation line. Thanks everyone

[Roughrider]

I recently did some testing where I shot arrows from under 400 grains to 2220 grains from longbows and recurves of 40 something to 64 pounds - KE and momentum ALWAYS increased as arrow weight increased, and speed decreased. Across all the bows, the differeing arrow weights only lost about 100 feet per second total - interesting.   Now, the 2220 grain arrow would be difficult to shoot much past 25 yards, but, suprisingly, it wasn't that hard to shoot under 20 yards - and really rocked the target. It would seem a bow would launch an arrow up to the weight of the draw weight of the bow less the friction against the rest - a 45 pound arrow may not fly very far out of a 50 pound bow, but it seems, in my mind, that it should "launch" it.

[ChuckC]

As I recall, one gentleman among us (Monty Browning) chooses or chose to use heavy solid fiberglass arrows for all of his hunting.  These exceed 1000 grains.  Yes he uses heavy bows, but, you know, most of us don't shoot much beyond 20-25 yards at critters anyway.


ChuckC

[amar911]

I shot 1000 grain arrows out of my 70#@29.5" Shrew Safari bow during my hunt in Australia last July and buried the arrows (with a Tuffhead 300 broadhead and a 100 grain steel broadhead adapter -- 400 grains total tip weight) in a scrub bull, with the first hit from 50 yards and the second hit from 40 yards. I'd never shot that bow and arrow combination beyond 35 yards before that, but the drop was not too bad at 50 yards.

Allan

[Troy D. Breeding]

After working with Dr. Ashby lastyear and reading all his reports I really couldn't find a point of demenishing return in his work.

My thoughts on this came to a head when I found out that most of the bows used in his test were rather heavy in draw weight.

To see if there really was a point of demenishing return in an average weight bow I started weighting and tuning heavier and heavier arrow for a couple of my bows.

Using a graph to chart everything I finally came to a conclusion.

It seemed that once you pass 16GPP your momenium hit's a point of extremely low growth.

As most of you know momenium never stops growing, but at 16GPP the growth barely exceeds a level line.

Personally I like between 12-14GPP. At this weight my arrow trojectory is still very exceptable. I have come to the conclusion that if I were going to hunt something that might require longer shots I'd hold to the 12GPP range. Otherwise, if I know I'll be hunting in an area where 20yds will be my max shot range I really like the way 14GPP delivers a thump with out the worry of what might happen if I hit something like heavy bone.

Troy

[reddogge]

As Jeff Foxworthy would say "If you shoot your arrow and it hits you in the foot, you know it's too heavy."