Now that I'm mostly using my HHA back quiver, or on occasion, my Arrow Master, my bows are very light in hand.
That got me to thinking about when I hunted with my Groves Spitfire Mag II, with a Browning 9-arrow Twist-loc quiver filled with 2219's, six with broadheads, and three with judos, and how many times I carried it up and down the mountains around Juneau and on Prince of Wales Island. With that in mind, I decided to mount the quiver back on the bow, and load it up with some 2219's I still had laying around:
Then for the heck of it, I weighed the fully loaded Groves, and my N.M. Classic. The Groves came in at 4.5 lbs, and the Classic is 1.25 lbs, or a little less. What a difference! Can't believe I was packing so much weight around!
What surprises me more, is that all those arrows really made the bow lopsided, but I could still shoot it very well. I was shooting 5-inch vanes off an elevated rest with a plunger.
My how times have changed for me!