The bows I was use to shooting in the 55-60# range had become "unruly" to say the least. My favorite recurve, "Curly" a Bacote and Osage beauty that I had some checkering done to has been sitting collecting dust.
I finally broke down and built myself a sweet little 50# number. The myrtle with black actionwood riser looks really good. I'll have to get a picture of it and post it up. I've gotten away from the clear class trend over the years and used black for the face and back. It makes for a nice contrast with the lighter color of the myrtle.
Of course the drop in bow weight meant new arrows. I don't mess around with a lot of different shafts. Aluminum has always given me good service so picking the correct spine for what I wanted to do was easy. I chose the 2018 size tipped with 150 grain Magnus Stingers. No bells and whistles. Just my usual 4 3/4 yellow parabolic fletch in 75x105.
Sometimes guys worry about the durability of the aluminum arrow. My stumping arrows are aluminum. As a matter of fact I've got a Judo on an old, old, 24SRTX shaft. Damn soft compared to todays xx75 material. After 2 years of pretty rough treatment it's just as straight as the first day I shot it at a stump... I'm pretty careful of my targets when shooting it though.
Topic: Hunting the wiley dink buck...or how I killed the smallest buck of the year (Read 9741 times)
