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Author Topic: Testing the WW Elite  (Read 277 times)

Offline Mark U

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Testing the WW Elite
« on: October 03, 2009, 08:36:00 PM »
ONE of the reasons I missed the first week of elk hunting here at home this year.

 


But, it didn't matter.  Robertson Overdrive takedown, MFX carbons loaded to 700 grains with a WW Elite.  And the new shirt I got from our PH in Namibia.

 
So don't wait until you retire to go hunting and fishing.  Don't even wait for your annual vacation.  Go at every opportunity.  Things that appear urgent at the moment may, in the long run, turn out to be far less so.

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Re: Testing the WW Elite
« Reply #1 on: October 03, 2009, 08:41:00 PM »
NICE!!!  :thumbsup:
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Offline Bryan Burkhardt

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Re: Testing the WW Elite
« Reply #2 on: October 03, 2009, 09:32:00 PM »
Very nice animals Ted...congratulations!!

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Offline Big Sneaky

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Re: Testing the WW Elite
« Reply #3 on: October 03, 2009, 10:37:00 PM »
Great animals!  I guess you didn't have trouble with the Woodsman whistling.  By the way what was the bow weight?

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Re: Testing the WW Elite
« Reply #4 on: October 04, 2009, 12:00:00 AM »
Nicely done !!

Offline tradtusker

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Re: Testing the WW Elite
« Reply #5 on: October 04, 2009, 12:22:00 AM »
very nice!
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Re: Testing the WW Elite
« Reply #6 on: October 04, 2009, 03:09:00 AM »
Congrats, those are some good critters!
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Re: Testing the WW Elite
« Reply #7 on: October 04, 2009, 05:26:00 AM »
Awesome!
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Re: Testing the WW Elite
« Reply #8 on: October 04, 2009, 07:21:00 AM »
Very nice aimals.
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Offline Mark U

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Re: Testing the WW Elite
« Reply #9 on: October 04, 2009, 10:03:00 AM »
Sneak, the bow is marked 63# at 28, but I yank it back a little further most of the time.  The arrows are 30.5 inches.

I never have heard the whistle, but after working around airplanes most of my life my high pitch hearing is pretty much gone.  If an elk is quite a ways off and is bugling, I won't hear it.  That's what my kids tell me.

  More about the broadhead.  They really get sharp when you work on them a little with a diamond sharpener.  I know they are supposed to have a pyramid tip, but if you're over 45 you WILL need reading glasses to see it.  I ended up putting more of a pyramid tip on them just like the original ones.  The tips on the new ones don't bend like the old ones, but they do chip off a little, hence the added trimming I did.

  I decided to see what happened on a shoulder blade shot.  The arrow actually went in about half way, into the lungs, and I had a dickens of a time getting it back out.  Of course, that's shooting a 700 grain arrow at probably 70 lbs. pull from five yards, and I'm not sure where on the shoulder blade it hit.  It did bend the steel insert in the broadhead some, and one of the blades was a little depressed at the aft vent area.  I'll send it back for an exchange.  The upper hole is the bone shot.

 


And no, I didn't get to try them on any of these.

 

 
So don't wait until you retire to go hunting and fishing.  Don't even wait for your annual vacation.  Go at every opportunity.  Things that appear urgent at the moment may, in the long run, turn out to be far less so.

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Re: Testing the WW Elite
« Reply #10 on: October 04, 2009, 10:28:00 AM »
Looks like the testing went well Congratulations. Blake
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Offline Steve H.

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Re: Testing the WW Elite
« Reply #11 on: October 04, 2009, 10:55:00 AM »
Excellent MU!  I bet you have a few more test pics from Namibia!

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