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Author Topic: Hunting arrow weight for those who shoot #40-45?  (Read 7700 times)

Offline Longbowwally

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Re: Hunting arrow weight for those who shoot #40-45?
« Reply #20 on: January 25, 2020, 10:38:01 AM »
Out of my 40 - 43 lb bows I shoot around 480 grains....Has worked pretty good on whitetails so far..
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Re: Hunting arrow weight for those who shoot #40-45?
« Reply #21 on: January 25, 2020, 10:55:53 AM »
I shoot 545 and 600 grains arrows out of my 46# and 50# Longbows,
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Re: Hunting arrow weight for those who shoot #40-45?
« Reply #22 on: January 25, 2020, 11:36:14 AM »
#45 Alaskan, 583 gr. 3R Trad only.
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Re: Hunting arrow weight for those who shoot #40-45?
« Reply #23 on: January 25, 2020, 03:25:35 PM »
My bow weight is not far off, it’s 51#. My arrows weigh 680 grains .
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Re: Hunting arrow weight for those who shoot #40-45?
« Reply #24 on: January 25, 2020, 07:01:31 PM »
My personal point-on has been 25 yards for both 3D and hunting for over a decade.
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Re: Hunting arrow weight for those who shoot #40-45?
« Reply #25 on: January 26, 2020, 08:23:03 AM »
42# bow, 420gr alum arrow.
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Re: Hunting arrow weight for those who shoot #40-45?
« Reply #26 on: January 30, 2020, 04:57:51 PM »
I am using 549g arrows with a 250g single bevel Cutthroat broadhead in my 45# Omega Original.  Bagged a young doe with it earlier this week, complete pass through, she only made it about 100 yards and dropped.

Entrance wound was on her right side.
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Re: Hunting arrow weight for those who shoot #40-45?
« Reply #27 on: January 30, 2020, 08:07:55 PM »
Whatever fly well. I was shooting about 590 grains today.
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Re: Hunting arrow weight for those who shoot #40-45?
« Reply #28 on: January 31, 2020, 10:33:49 AM »
Thanks guys for all the advice.
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Re: Hunting arrow weight for those who shoot #40-45?
« Reply #29 on: January 31, 2020, 05:39:02 PM »
I’m seeing the arrow weight, when shooting carbon arrows what spine do you guys prefer to build off for this low poundage .500 or .600

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Re: Hunting arrow weight for those who shoot #40-45?
« Reply #30 on: January 31, 2020, 06:54:53 PM »
Let the bow tell you.  There are a  million ways to "MAKE" an arrow shoot off your bow but it may not be what the bow wants to hit the sweet spot and provide the best results.

Get close with some research and then get a test kit or three.... work it up.  There is no free lunch here.  It takes time and patience but to me thats part of the fun.  It is amazing when you hit that spot....  believe me after over almost 50 years of doing this its worth it.

When ya get real close do the bare shaft, fletched shaft thing.  Once that is done and any corrections made....  You are there.

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