What weight are you shooting?

[Flying Dutchman]

Just curious what weights you guys are shooting and with this I mean the ratio in grains/arrow and poundage of your bow in pounds (Grains Per Pounds).

I'll start: I am around 9.5 GGP

SINCE SO MANY ARE ANSWERING, I MADE A POLL FOR THIS QUESTION TOO! THANKS!

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[Eugene Slagle]

My go to bow, my 50* Zona T/D Recurve with my GT Trad Hunter 35/55's @ 445gr. I get 8.9GPP.

My Hoyt Dorado w/ 50* lims is the same but when I use the 40* limbs on it with my GT Entrada 600's 332gr. "indoor & field" I get 8.3GPP

My Sky with the 55* limbs I don't have arrows yet for it but I'm going to shoot for around 9.5+GPP when I set em up

[Tom]

54#@29,CE Heritage, 100 gr.insert,125 bh=550 gr.10gr/gpp.

[Tim Fishell]

I shoot mostly 57# bows with a 540-550 grain arrow so right around 9.5 GPP.

[KentuckyTJ]

Easton Trad Only 500 series carbon shafts - 100 grain brass inserts - 100-125 grain points, 485-500 grain arrows = 9.7-10 gpp for me with my 50# bows.

[string bean]

right now they are something like 9.6-9.8gpp

[Ricoh]

Black Widow MAX 53lbs at 28". Try to set up for 9.5 to 10 gr.

Rick

[Flying Dutchman]

I am very suprised to see that American traditional bowhunters are shooting that low weights! I thought you guys were at least around the 12.....

[JC]

59@27 w/660gr = 11.18gpp
63@27 w/700gr = 11.11gpp

[cbCrow]

On my Harrelson longbow its 12.5gpp Kohannah Kurve its 11.5gpp  

[Dave Lay]

widow psaIII recurve 60@28 xx75 2216 @ 9.7gpp

widow PLV longbow    60@28 xx75 2020 @ 9.8 gpp

found that gpp range to work best for me on a huntin arrow, after alot of years messin with it...would bump it up for elk to about 650 gr or about 11gpp if I ever get to go back

[Flying Dutchman]

Ok, 11.5 gpp is the heighest bidder......

[wapiti792]

54 @ 29 inch longbow: Shooting 300 3Rivers trads with a 100 gr insert and 250 grains out front. 705 gr total arrow weight...13gr/inch therabouts.

[Ken Taylor]

With my 75lb Caribow longbow I'm shooting arrows that are not quite 700 grains. Precisely calculated, it comes out to 9.20 gpp.

They fly great but I have been thinking of cutting my 31 1/2" arrow slightly and going to a heavier broadhead to increase that to 10 gpp to improve the f.o.c.

[Dale Sharp]

10.4 gpp average.

[COLongbow]

Shooting a 515 grain CE arrow out of my new Lost Creek. That puts me at 10.7 gpp. Chrono'd at 182 fps. Really wallops the target!

[Flying Dutchman]

Oh,

I should have made a poll of this one!!!

[Eugene Slagle]

Dutch, ya should have...  

I get my arrows to where they tune just right & then look at the weight, I tend not to worry about it till my arras get below the 8.0GPP if I'm using it just for target but no less than 8.5GPP for any of my hunting arras.

[Doug Treat]

I'm shooting 630 gr. arrows from a 40# recurve.  15.75 gpp.

[Gil Verwey]

I am shooting a 680 grain arrow from a 60# longbow. 11.33 gpp

Gil