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Draw Weight
12-12-2007, 02:22 PM
#21
Site Buck Guru
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Racine, Wisconsin
Posts: 5,922
RE: Draw Weight
Actually, In my neck of the woods people are dropping in poundage. You can get the necessary speed/kinetic energy now days at much less draw weight.
Back in the early 90s I shot 82-84 lbs. 2315s @ 545 gr at 275 fps. (lots of KE). I shot this poundage for indoor league as well. As bows advanced I lowered my poundage and lightened my arrows. I still get enough KE to pass right through a deer while shooting 66 lbs. I still get 275 fps with a 2413 but have dropped to 72 ft/lbs KE.
Why kill yourself??!![:-]
Back in the early 90s I shot 82-84 lbs. 2315s @ 545 gr at 275 fps. (lots of KE). I shot this poundage for indoor league as well. As bows advanced I lowered my poundage and lightened my arrows. I still get enough KE to pass right through a deer while shooting 66 lbs. I still get 275 fps with a 2413 but have dropped to 72 ft/lbs KE.
Why kill yourself??!![:-]
12-12-2007, 02:22 PM
#22
Dominant Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: land of the Lilliputians, In the state of insanity
Posts: 26,274
RE: Draw Weight
ORIGINAL: Schultzy
Alot of these people are cranking the weights up too because ofthe highlet off these compounds have these days. I'm just going off of what the guys I know that shoot compound's tell me.
Alot of these people are cranking the weights up too because ofthe highlet off these compounds have these days. I'm just going off of what the guys I know that shoot compound's tell me.
12-12-2007, 03:06 PM
#24
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Central Minnesota
Posts: 9,445
RE: Draw Weight
ORIGINAL: MN/Kyle
Great point Schultzy, even with the 80% let off, and my bow set at 68lbs...I'll admit I find myself getting a little fatigued after a round of 3d. That is why I am going to drop 5-6 lbs.
ORIGINAL: Schultzy
Alot of these people are cranking the weights up too because ofthe highlet off these compounds have these days. I'm just going off of what the guys I know that shoot compound's tell me.
Alot of these people are cranking the weights up too because ofthe highlet off these compounds have these days. I'm just going off of what the guys I know that shoot compound's tell me.
12-12-2007, 03:23 PM
#25
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: homer, NE
Posts: 347
RE: Draw Weight
Schultzy you have shot at Cedar Rapids. I have shot there a lot winning a lot of shoots there 3Ds, field and target. Shot there even when I shot a 65 lb recurve in the 60 and 70s. I won the Midwest sectional once there as N.F.A.A. pro. Great range and lots of friend there. I was from around the Des Moines area. I have done a lots of shooting in Minnesota too. Winning a Midwestern once at Coon Rapids and a IBO at Blue Earth.
12-12-2007, 05:29 PM
#29
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Central Minnesota
Posts: 9,445
RE: Draw Weight
ORIGINAL: bowdoc1
Schultzy you have shot at Cedar Rapids. I have shot there a lot winning a lot of shoots there 3Ds, field and target. Shot there even when I shot a 65 lb recurve in the 60 and 70s. I won the Midwest sectional once there as N.F.A.A. pro. Great range and lots of friend there. I was from around the Des Moines area. I have done a lots of shooting in Minnesota too. Winning a Midwestern once at Coon Rapids and a IBO at Blue Earth.
Schultzy you have shot at Cedar Rapids. I have shot there a lot winning a lot of shoots there 3Ds, field and target. Shot there even when I shot a 65 lb recurve in the 60 and 70s. I won the Midwest sectional once there as N.F.A.A. pro. Great range and lots of friend there. I was from around the Des Moines area. I have done a lots of shooting in Minnesota too. Winning a Midwestern once at Coon Rapids and a IBO at Blue Earth.
12-12-2007, 05:33 PM
#30
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: PA
Posts: 9,085
RE: Draw Weight
Jeff, i like your idea...getting to watch everyone draw...LOVE watching the TV guys muscle back their bow...pointing the sucker to the sky and muscleing it back...one of these days one of them fools is gunna hurt themselves....just hope thats a day im bored and channel surfing and i get to see it 
i practiced maxed out at 71-72 all summer. felt fine..i was drawing straight back with no trouble...could shoot as long as i wanted and was comfortable..first week of the season i was still fine...that friday i drew on stand..always do periodically..practice, check my form and anchors, make sure the peep is OK and all that...mannnn did it about kill me...why?? being cold...not being able to shoot EVERY day like i did all summer..i dropped it down to 65ish...i really dont know..i think i took 2 cranks off each limb and felt 10000% better...
im not PROUD either Jeff
still blew threw my buck like he wasnt there...im still impressed by that actually...how i can center punch a rib(i know it aint the toughest bone to break) and still watch that arrow sink in and blow through deep into the rocky glacial till dirt of the mountains...
wont even bother going back up this year...heck, i might drop it down another crank..i dont care where its set at...if i cant draw straight back almost effortlessly, and hold it back steadily, i have no use for it in a treestand...
i practiced maxed out at 71-72 all summer. felt fine..i was drawing straight back with no trouble...could shoot as long as i wanted and was comfortable..first week of the season i was still fine...that friday i drew on stand..always do periodically..practice, check my form and anchors, make sure the peep is OK and all that...mannnn did it about kill me...why?? being cold...not being able to shoot EVERY day like i did all summer..i dropped it down to 65ish...i really dont know..i think i took 2 cranks off each limb and felt 10000% better...
im not PROUD either Jeff
still blew threw my buck like he wasnt there...im still impressed by that actually...how i can center punch a rib(i know it aint the toughest bone to break) and still watch that arrow sink in and blow through deep into the rocky glacial till dirt of the mountains...wont even bother going back up this year...heck, i might drop it down another crank..i dont care where its set at...if i cant draw straight back almost effortlessly, and hold it back steadily, i have no use for it in a treestand...