Heavier Slower moving arrow over a fast light arrow?

[Axis Hunter]

What is ultimately better a slower heavier arrow or a fast light one??

[COMPOUNDLESS IN CONCRETE]

For hunting, slower heavier, for target and 3d, faster lighter.

[Axis Hunter]

Agreed i use about a 480grain head. what do you use?

[texbow2]

Depends on what i'm hunting, if it's just deer I'll take the fast light one provided it is tuned well(and sharp of course)

[Axis Hunter]

Does your arrow go through bone? particularly the back of the shoulder blade?

[Hud]

9-12 gr./lbs draw weight. Added weight up front to up the FOC is a good way to go. Practice with the same arrows.

[Night Wing]

My heavier spined arrows make my bow quieter upon arrow release than when I use a differently spined lighter arrow. This is why I use a heavy arrow.

[COMPOUNDLESS IN CONCRETE]

I am shooting 625 grain beman ics bowhunter arrows in 400 spine with 275 grains up front including the insert.  They are cut to 29" and have a foc of 21.5%.  I was able to get the weight up there by using 250 grain field points and 3 gpi weight tubes.  That equals about 11.3 gpp out of my 55# recurve.  They fly like darts and hit my bag target with authority.  This will be my setup for everything this summer and fall.  I am confident that if I put one of these arrows tipped with a wicked sharp 2 blade Magnus II broadhead through the pump station, it'll be bad medicine for the deer.  Good luck with your tuning.

[MSwickard]

For my 53# Griffin I'm using CX Terminator Selects 45/60, 160 gr point, 125 gr steel adapter (285 gr total), 100 gr brass insert, 3-5" Shields.  Finished arrow is 29-7/16" BOP, 678 grains, 27.2% EFoC, and 12.6 GPP.

With this set-up I can drop point weight to 235 gr for a 628 gr arrow or down to 187 gr for a 580 gr arrow and still get great arrow flight.  The 678 grainer is the sledgehammer of the butch, but all fly like lazer guided rockets.

Mike

[arky714]

My elk setup 55# Border hex4 29'3/4 75/95 traditional gold tips 300 gr up front 665 gr total going to use 160 grain grizzly ...on deer i will drop down to about 490 gr total...the heavy arrow feels soo much smoother on release,make shooting fun ...

[Axis Hunter]

Im usin 175grain stowes with a 50grain insert. Beman clasics 10.6 gpi at 28in arrows. So my arrows come out to be about 530grains. relatively heavy. so far they have been great for axis and deer as well as pigs

[brinkwolf]

I try to keep mine around 11.0grns per lb with my big bows and around 9.0grns per lb on my smaller bows.

[Axis Hunter]

whts the weight on your smaller and bigger bows?

[brinkwolf]

Smaller bows are 45lbs up to 65lbs. The bigger ones are listed in my sig.

[Mitch-In-NJ]

I go with heavier.  This is not my analogy but I like it.

Which would hurt more, getting hit with a ping pong ball thrown 90 MPH or a golf ball thrown 70 MPH?

[Axis Hunter]

Wow those are some heavy weights. Usually the only bow i shoot is my acs adcock 54@28. The arrow still moves very fast out of the bow. The limb design gives much more speed over some other longbows i've shot

[COMPOUNDLESS IN CONCRETE]

I put the weight tubes and heavier field tips on and in my arrows on monday and have been shooting them all three days and now I am only hitting either dead on, high or low.  No more left and right misses now that my arrows are spined out correctly for my bow.  I am getting the feel for the new trajectory a little more with each practice session so I should be pretty dead on out to my 25 yd. comfort zone on deer by september.

[Axis Hunter]

I used too shoot several different weighted arrows during practice. i hav decided that you can't get a true instictual shot without using the same arrow over and over

[Axis Hunter]

hmm wonder what the poll is

[texbow2]

For my 55@27 recurve for deer I shoot and axis500 with std alum insert and 200 gr ww(460 gr total 8.1 GPP) for elk this year I'm using
an axis 400 with 100gr insert and 200 gr WW(570 gr total 10.3 gpp)