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Author Topic: Your favorite deer hunting set-up.....  (Read 1376 times)

Offline awbowman

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Re: Your favorite deer hunting set-up.....
« Reply #20 on: January 30, 2015, 02:45:00 PM »
62" Toelke Super D, 47#s at 25-1/2", GT 3555s, 50 grain insert with 175 grain 2 blade.  But I'll have some 3 blade instincts tuned before next year
62" Super D, 47#s @ 25-1/2"
58" TS Mag, 53#s @ 26"
56" Bighorn, 46#s @ 26.5"

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Re: Your favorite deer hunting set-up.....
« Reply #21 on: January 30, 2015, 03:00:00 PM »
I love the way Black Widows recurves shoot, I prefer the way a longbow handles. I am not familiar with the SIW. My draw is 26.5", my arrows are all 27" bop. I shoot 1918s out of most of my low 50s to upper 50s bows, with slight point weight difference to accommodate the spine requirements. For wood shafts I use 45-50 tapered cedars with 145 Grizzlies for two bows and 55-60 tapered Surewoods with 160 grain Hills or Grizzlies for the rest. For my heavier bows I use 70 pound tapered cedars with 160 single bevel Hills, or the old Kodiak Grizzlies at I believe 170 grains.  I do not worry about the foc with these arrows, it is apparently plenty to get pass throughs on whitetails in Iowa.

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Re: Your favorite deer hunting set-up.....
« Reply #22 on: January 30, 2015, 03:05:00 PM »
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Originally posted by pavan:
I love the way Black Widows recurves shoot, I prefer the way a longbow handles. I am not familiar with the SIW.
According to Black Widow....I called them before I bought the bow....the SIW was a "precursor" to their current PSR bows.  They said the SIW has a shorter riser and the redesign of the riser resulted in the PSR.  He said performance should be essentially the same but that the SIW is more prone to hand torque.
1966 Bear Kodiak Magnum
52"
40# @ 25"

Black Widow SIW
56"
51# @ 25.5"

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Re: Your favorite deer hunting set-up.....
« Reply #23 on: January 30, 2015, 04:55:00 PM »
64" Palmer recurve.  54# at my 30' draw.  Shooting Beman ICS Hunter shafts, .400 spine.  3 fletch 4" LW feathers.  150 grain VPA 3 Blades or Magnus Stinger 2 blades.

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Re: Your favorite deer hunting set-up.....
« Reply #24 on: January 30, 2015, 08:55:00 PM »
I hunt with a half-dozen or so bows -- longbows, hybrids and recurves around 50# plus or minus a little, and shoot wood and carbon arrows about 550 to 600 grains. I may take one out in the morning and another in the afternoon.  They all shoot well.

Shot a turkey with a 50# Bear TD and GT carbon arrow last spring, an elk with a 52# A&H ACS and Easton Axis shaft in early fall, and a nice buck with a 50# Morrison Shawnee recurve and Sweetland Forgewood compressed cedars in late fall.

I like shooting a lot of different bows.

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Re: Your favorite deer hunting set-up.....
« Reply #25 on: January 30, 2015, 09:33:00 PM »
What Chuck said .
You can hop but you can't hide.
If it was not for rabbits I would never get a buck.
Yip yipahooooo yipyipyip.

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Re: Your favorite deer hunting set-up.....
« Reply #26 on: January 31, 2015, 12:19:00 PM »
Hopefully this year it will be my 56" Check-Mate Firebird 57# @ 28". This bow is ridiculously smooth and forgiving. This will be my first year hunting trad.
   
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CheckMate Firebird 56" 57#@28
CheckMate Falcon Special 60" 52#@28
Shakespeare Supe Necedah 54" 45#@28
Bear Blackbear riser 40# Sage limbs

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Re: Your favorite deer hunting set-up.....
« Reply #27 on: January 31, 2015, 01:13:00 PM »
Black Widow PSAX 71@31

Gold Tip Ultralight 300 31.5"

50 gr. Double footing
200 gr. insert/adapter
300 gr. TuffHead
3 3" A&A rocket fins
830 gr total weight with 32% FOC
Black Widow PSAX 71@31
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Re: Your favorite deer hunting set-up.....
« Reply #28 on: January 31, 2015, 02:40:00 PM »
JD Berry Morningstar ASL longbow 51@27 with sitka spruce shafts spined 50-54 with 125 zwickey eskimos up front.
JD Berry Morningstar
Howard Hill Tembo
McBroom ASL
"Keep em flying straight"

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Re: Your favorite deer hunting set-up.....
« Reply #29 on: January 31, 2015, 03:21:00 PM »
66" 51@28 Two Tracks Echo longbow. 29" douglas fir tipped with 160gn. Stos. This is about to change. I pulled the trigger on a NM Classic. 51#@27. The K-zoo Expo always gets me into trouble.

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Re: Your favorite deer hunting set-up.....
« Reply #30 on: January 31, 2015, 05:59:00 PM »
66" Black Widow PL-III 53# @ 28
CE 250 heritage with 20 gr. insert
175 gr Simmons Tigershark

Good deer medicine!


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Blk Widow PL-III
53#@28
Blk Widow PSR X
50#@28

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Re: Your favorite deer hunting set-up.....
« Reply #31 on: January 31, 2015, 06:11:00 PM »
I think my best has always been my '73 Super Kodiak with GT 55/75s.It's 52@30", I use 50 gr brass inserts and either a Bear Razorhead or 125 grain Magnus Stinger. One of the only 60" recurves I can shoot comfortably at my draw length..The bow just has MOJO..lol

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Re: Your favorite deer hunting set-up.....
« Reply #32 on: January 31, 2015, 07:48:00 PM »
Wapiti Spike, #58@29", 75-80 Surewood with Zwickey Deltas and 5" shield cut feathers.
Todd Henck Longbow 68" 58#@28"
Dave Johnson Longbow 66" 60#@27"
Northern Mist Ramer 64" 50#@27"
Northern Mist Classic 68" 52#@28"
Shrew Hill #1 "Alpha" 67" 48#@28"

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Re: Your favorite deer hunting set-up.....
« Reply #33 on: February 01, 2015, 12:42:00 AM »
Roy Hall Navajo Chief 58" 53# @28
Beman ICS 400 Hunters (never weighed them but they hit like a hammmer)
Simmons Treesharks
3 5" shield cut right wing

This has been my only bow for going on 10 years.

I did just receive Hope the St. Jude's bow by Sarrels. Blue Ridge 60" 54# @28"
Same arrows as my Navajo
I could see me falling in love with this bow.
She was tuned in a matter of minutes and handles like a dream. There is a slight difference in cast that took me three groups to dial in.  If the weather and deer cooperate I should add some "mojo" next weekend.

Chris

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Re: Your favorite deer hunting set-up.....
« Reply #34 on: February 01, 2015, 09:08:00 AM »
Got this late this past season, Cari-bow Tuktu Ex, 53#@28", 60". Probably shooting woodies, depends on what survives the time until next season. Made up a few to get tuned for it.

 

 
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Re: Your favorite deer hunting set-up.....
« Reply #35 on: February 01, 2015, 03:42:00 PM »
A 54# 60" Pronghorn with 250 grains on the front of 500 spine carbons.

 

 

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Re: Your favorite deer hunting set-up.....
« Reply #36 on: February 01, 2015, 07:30:00 PM »
Silver tip 55@28, axis 400s w/original woodsmans and or screw in VPAs 175s or 200s.
Always be stubborn.

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Re: Your favorite deer hunting set-up.....
« Reply #37 on: February 03, 2015, 09:14:00 PM »
This yr it will be a Morrison Leadwood 19" ILF w/47# medium max 1 carbon/foam recurve limbs shooting 30" GT 3555 w/100 grn brass insert and 125 DRT.
BLACK WIDOWS
MORRISON ILF
TITAN/CENTAUR
BLACK MAGIC/CENTUAR
BOB LEES
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Re: Your favorite deer hunting set-up.....
« Reply #38 on: February 03, 2015, 09:18:00 PM »
Dale Dye Medicine Point 62"65@28

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Re: Your favorite deer hunting set-up.....
« Reply #39 on: February 03, 2015, 09:27:00 PM »
I'm loving a three piece Big Jim Buffalo bow I just recently got. It's 54@28. I've got some 55/75 Gold Tip Heritage arrows that are cut to 28.5. The broadhead i've got is a Grizzly Instinct that is 200 grains with a 125 grain insert for 325 grains up front. I think it makes a 640 grain arrow. I zipped right through a whitetail this past season.

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