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Draw Weight
12-12-2007, 05:35 PM
#32
Nontypical Buck
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Minnesota
Posts: 4,911
RE: Draw Weight
ORIGINAL: mauser06
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...
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...
12-12-2007, 07:57 PM
#39
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Where the big deer are from, seminole county FL
Posts: 1,435
RE: Draw Weight
well i am at 45ish but when i get my new bow it has 80% let off i am going with a 50-60, i pulled back my friends who shoots 70 and he has 75% so i should be fine @ 50 with 80%
12-12-2007, 07:59 PM
#40
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: cazenovia, NY USA
Posts: 2,973
RE: Draw Weight
I Hunted many (too many) years with a 55lb Oneida. This year I picked up a Q32 Mathews set at 65 lbs - and it feels like NOTHING compared to what I pulled before.
so.............. Now I think alot of it might depend on the bow.
FH
so.............. Now I think alot of it might depend on the bow.
FH