What game are you hunting, and what is your setup for this season?

[Homey88]

Hunting Whitetail in PA. Will be using a 64 inch Omega Original Longbow 45#@28. 29.5 inch 2016 Aluminum Gamegetter arrows and 175 grain Steel Force Broadheads.

[Friend]

Am most fortunate to have nine different setups to choose from. All nine are designed to be lethal and I have very hi confidence in each one.

Have narrowed it down to a Mountain Monarch and a Bob Lee Ultimate for the majority of deer hunts…may still be thinking about the Stalker Wolverine…will likely be toting either the TimberGhost and Covert Hunter on the short blind hunts.

[Bluefeather]

My primary bow will be a 66" Widow PLII, 48# At 30" with Easton 2018's and 150 gr Snuffers. Back up bow is a 64" Kodiak,43# at 30" with Easton 2016's and the same heads. Really like this thread.

[Mike Bolin]

Wudstix-why yes they are 250 grainers!

[Wudstix]

My back up to BR LB is 60” MOAB 62#@27 so @63.5# for me.  Tapered Maple @700 grains with 160 grain Snuffer heads or 2215 with same.  This bow is semi-retired, but takes a dozen arrows to get back into groove.  This is my avatar bow.
 

[Bowguy67]

Most likely a Robertson primal longbow 57lbs shooting Wapiti tapered cedar shafts.  I normally shoot a delta 4 blade  out of it and still may but I’ve got some grizzlys to try as Zwickey is worrying me with the inability to get the 4 blades in production again.  Gotta be honest I like them pretty good so perhaps they get the nod. We will see. 
I’d like to use my PSA 64lbs a little too, 400 spine bemans with a magnus stinger. The bow has sentimental value as my kids names are on it. Like to get one or two with it again.

[kennym]

Same setup as last 3 years. 64” 3 pc TD longbow built in my own shop. Be man 400s at 30”  with stock  inserts and VPA 200 grn 3 blades up front . 48@28

She has done me well on whitetails...

And one muskrat , he was digging in my pond dam ! LOL

[achigan]

Ill start with my 42@28 very custom Thunderchild shooting GT 500s with a 250 grain  VPA 3blade out front. The thread author helped me tune this setup and it has given me great confidence. If the guys down in Nixa hold to schedule, I may finish the season with a 64" 43@28 PL II. Ill shoot the first legal deer that come along and any dumb enough limb chickens.

[Wudstix]

Mike B - use them well.


I fell into 19 of the VPA Terminator 190 grain heads that will be riding up front this year.  With possible Grizzly Instinct original run 190 grain riding shotgun.
 

[flyonline]

I'll be chasing goats in the hills as always (as in feral, not mountain) and probably start seriously trying for deer plus whatever comes my way chasing either of above (foxes, rabbits, hares and pigs). We can hunt year round here, so gotta be ready for anything at any time.

Most likely will be toting my 58" 1970 Root/Shakespeare Warrior in 55lb with full length GT Warriors in 500 with 100gr brass insert, 25gr brass collar and 200gr Outback Stealth broad heads for a tickle over 600gr.

Or perhaps my 70" 50lb own design boo backed cypress longbow which shoots the same arrows.

Steve

[Trenton G.]

Dang, I have to decide already?!

I'll just be chasing deer this year. I've got a lot of bows to play with but I'll probably only take two out in the woods. My main go to bow will probably be my Stillwater Aberdeen, 60" and 57@29, so probably just a fuzz over that at my draw length. Shooting GT Trads, 400 spine with 200 grain Grizzlies up front.

My second set-up will be my Abbott longbow, 66" and 62@30, so about 60 for me. Will be shooting GT Trads 500 spine, again with 200 grain Grizzlies up front. I'm tempted to try some of the Grizzly Instincts this year. We'll see...

[ShadeMt]

I will be chasing Wyoming pronghorns next month.   After that I will be back home here in PA for the rest of the season chasing deer and bears.   My setup is a 62" 53lb at my 27" draw Black Canyon 3 Piece Longbow.  For arrows I shoot Gold Tip 400 Valkyrie Xt with 50 grain brass inserts and 3 blade 175 VPA heads.

[Huntschool]

Well, to start with (if things open up) some foam fellows.... LOL  Shooting an A&H 3 piece and a Widow PLX both at 66" and 39# shooting 600 GT Ultra lights with 100 gr. points.  I am also shooting AD Stingers (yellow) with 125 gr points out of the A&H.

For the real season it will be deer when I feel like it and possibly fall turkeys.  I'll be using the following:
 
#1.  My PL Greybark 64" 45#@ 28".  This bow is set up with some older parallel carbons with Scirocco BH's glued
       onto 125 gr steel BH adaptors 3 5" feathers.

#2.  My old Widow MA, 45# @ 28" also shooting AD Stingers with the same BH setup as above.

#3.  Since our draw weight has been reduced to below 45# I may try one of the above listed 39# draw weight
       bows but keep the shots close.

[Dave Lay]

Good thread Mike, thanks.
    Haven’t settled on a set up yet , after a years worth of cancer surgery and treatments , I had a friend build me a 64” R/D longbow 45@28 it seems to like a 2016 and Zwickey Eskimo. But my normal ole reliable setup is a 58lb 60” Widow SAV shooting 2020,s and zwickey deltas. I hope I can work back into it by September and am having some problems with shooting the lighter weight but with time, I’m sure it will come, but I bet I’m back with my old friend the widow.
      I’d like to do a out of state whitetail hunt and hopefully can swing it. I’ll be in one of my lone wolf assaults  I’m sure.
     Ive been scouting just to learn a new area but it’s so dang hot I can’t go as much as I want.

[ESP]

I’m hunting Ohio Whitetails, squirrels and fall turkey.  I will be also hunting Colorado in November for a plains mule deer hunt. I will be the first bow hunter on the ranch in several years.  The boom stick hunters have averaged 195” over the last several seasons.  I’m not holding my standards that high. 

Bow:  I have a Stickflinger being built as I type. [email protected]. Also have a tribe x3 and xtra long dryad acs longbow limbs. [email protected].  I like heavy weight VPA 3 blades 1 1/4”

[kopfjaeger]

Well I didn't draw a bull moose tag this year, and I don't know if I drew a bull elk tag yet. So I may only be bowhunting whitetails this year. My set up for whitetails this year is going to be a 1990 Bear Kodiak Recurve, german spruce arrows, magnus two blade classic broadheads.

[razorsharptokill]

Pronghorn in Wyoming for me next month. Deployment will prevent much deer hunting this year. I'll be using a Hoyt Game Master II @ 55lbs with Easton FMJs tipped with Zwickey Deltas and VPA 150 3 blade non vented in Wyoming.

[trad_bowhunter1965]

I have a pair of Yellowstone Halfbreed Longbows 62"[email protected] also have a Sparrowhawk 64"50@28 Surewood shafts 60/65 29" with a 160 Grizzly broadhead and 4 fletch shield cut. I will be hunt Muledeer, Blackbear, Elk and hogs. 

[Burly]

This season I'm shooting my old 1962 Bear Kodiak, It's 43# @28. I'll be using
150 Heritage classics tipped with either 200gr. VPAs or 190gr. Simmons Swamp Sharks. First up is Black Bear. I finally drew the Baldwin unit with 13 points. Then it's just chasing Whitetails here in Michigan. Hopefully next year I'll be getting another stick.

[Bronoulli]

Game: Whitetail and Hog
Bow: 50# @28"  Slick Stick
Archer: 28.5" draw, Off Shelf, 3 Under
Arrow Shaft: Gold Tip Traditional 400 cut to 29.5"
Arrow Front End: 200gn GrizzlyStik Maasai with 200gn insert
Arrow Fletch: 4x4" AAE Trad Vanes @90 degrees
Total arrow weight: 730gn