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Author Topic: 45 lbs shooters, what wt up front?  (Read 614 times)

Offline The Night Stalker

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Re: 45 lbs shooters, what wt up front?
« Reply #20 on: May 13, 2013, 09:59:00 PM »
175 gr tree sharks for a flatter trajectory while elk hunting.
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Offline Slasher

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Re: 45 lbs shooters, what wt up front?
« Reply #21 on: May 13, 2013, 10:16:00 PM »
125+75 grn inserts out of 42#
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Offline BAK

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Re: 45 lbs shooters, what wt up front?
« Reply #22 on: May 13, 2013, 10:16:00 PM »
Started out in the sixties shooting woodies with 125 grain points, and they still work today.  With my light carbons 145.
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Offline Texun

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Re: 45 lbs shooters, what wt up front?
« Reply #23 on: May 13, 2013, 11:20:00 PM »
Legacy 2018's at 30.25" with 125 grain points out of a 45# recurve - draw 29".
Predator TD Recurve - 45#
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Offline Bill Carlsen

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Re: 45 lbs shooters, what wt up front?
« Reply #24 on: May 14, 2013, 07:39:00 AM »
I know that Bob Morrison shoots 44# @ 26" and has 300 grains up front. My wife shoots 44# @26" and she has 200 grains up front.
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Offline sswv

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Re: 45 lbs shooters, what wt up front?
« Reply #25 on: May 14, 2013, 09:15:00 AM »
I use a 125 grain head with a 50 grain insert. my bow's range from 45-48#s.

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Re: 45 lbs shooters, what wt up front?
« Reply #26 on: May 14, 2013, 12:15:00 PM »
47#@26", 310 up front

Offline Stone Knife

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Re: 45 lbs shooters, what wt up front?
« Reply #27 on: May 14, 2013, 12:34:00 PM »
GT3555 with a 50 gr brass insert and 145 gr broadhead insert combo. This has been a deadly combo for me
Proverbs 12:27
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but the diligent feed on the riches of the hunt.


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Offline JimmyC

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Re: 45 lbs shooters, what wt up front?
« Reply #28 on: May 14, 2013, 01:46:00 PM »
My 45# recurves, with dacron strings, shooting 30" Heritage 150's tune in with 250 gr points....and I love em.
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Re: 45 lbs shooters, what wt up front?
« Reply #29 on: May 14, 2013, 01:59:00 PM »
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The season gave him perfect mornings, hunter's moons and fields of freedom found only by walking them with a predator's stride.
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Offline larry

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Re: 45 lbs shooters, what wt up front?
« Reply #30 on: May 14, 2013, 09:21:00 PM »
45 at 27" axis 500's cut to 28"bop 50gr brass insert with 225gr head

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