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Shooting Light Arrows
aznboi3644:
yeah I was reading an article of some "bow hunting" magazine at Barnes and Noble. It was all compound stuff. But the main article was about arrow weight and FOC. Talking about nowadays compound hunters are using very light around 300 grain arrows with their 300fps fancy bows just to get a flatter trajectory with no conscience of penetration and force.
I've shot a compound...its nothing fun to me...But who needs a flatter trajectory when all of the compound hunters I talk to never take a shot more than 20 yards???
DanaM:
At what point do you consider an arrow light, lets say in grains/ lb?
10g/lb seems to be some type of accepted norm so would anything less be considered light?
Mechslasher:
i would say light is less than 9 g/p. i had one gentleman suggest that it was perfectly ok to hunt big game with a 350gr arrow with 3" fletching. he regularly takes 35-45 yard shots, he didn't say his success rate on these shots. of course, when i saw a pic of one of his kills, i noticed a sight on his glass bow. thought this was odd, at the least.
Kegan:
If a 40-45# bow will kill a deer, then let's assume that means with a 400-450 gr. arrow would about be the minimum. So the weight of your arrow is a better indication than just the bow weight, since the arrow can't really accept alot of excess energy, or else we'd all be shooting flight arrows at 200+ fps.
So going up against a scapula with a 350 gr arrow would be like trying to shoot through a shoulder with a 35# bow. And that's not something alot of people will look so kindly on ::)
My evil-shafted-arrows weigh in at 600 gr. so they would have the force of a 60# bow even though I'm shooting 70-80# at the moment. Which I can believe.
DanaM:
Last year I hunted with a 47#at 24" bow and was shooting 500+ grain arrows, the trajectory wasn't great but I felt they had the umph necessary to get the job done. Unfortunately in six weeks of bow hunting I only saw one deer and that was at 30+yards >:(
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