High Country getting 350 FPS?
06-28-2004, 09:55 PM
#1
Thread Starter
Join Date: Feb 2003
Posts: 1,846
High Country getting 350 FPS?
Lately in all the big hunting magazines high country has had ads out for its bows with the Pef-X cam and speed pro arrows that supposedly achieve 350+FPS? is this true? are they any good?
slayer
slayer
06-28-2004, 10:46 PM
#4
Typical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Corning, NY
Posts: 806
RE: High Country getting 350 FPS?
If you ask a HCA shooter why they did that they simply tell you their bows are that much stronger and if for some reason it does explode they replace it, no questions asked!
I say, what about your face!????
I say, what about your face!????
06-29-2004, 02:48 AM
#5
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Pine Hill Alabama USA
Posts: 1,280
RE: High Country getting 350 FPS?
Yeah but they achieve these speeds by using a dangerously light weight arrow. A bowtec or mathews would shoot just as fast or faster with that light of an arrow. Here is my impression of what will eventually happen to the people who keep shooting HCA bows with arrows that light.
EMT: "Knights ambulance to Mercy General ER.. do you read?"
ER Nurse: "We read you knights"
EMT: "We are in route to your facility with a 33 year old white male who has what appears to be an idler wheel from a compound bow lodged in his left nostril. Subjects vital signs are as follows, heart rate 133, blood pressure 200 over 110, respirations 34 per minute. Subject appears dazed, has a blank expressionless stare and keeps mumbling the word BOOM every 30 seconds. Subject also seems to have lost all control over his bowels and bladder as well. ETA to your facility 5 minutes."
ER Nurse: "10-4 Knights. Jesus, not another HCA speed freak. Thats the third one this week."
EMT: "Knights ambulance to Mercy General ER.. do you read?"
ER Nurse: "We read you knights"
EMT: "We are in route to your facility with a 33 year old white male who has what appears to be an idler wheel from a compound bow lodged in his left nostril. Subjects vital signs are as follows, heart rate 133, blood pressure 200 over 110, respirations 34 per minute. Subject appears dazed, has a blank expressionless stare and keeps mumbling the word BOOM every 30 seconds. Subject also seems to have lost all control over his bowels and bladder as well. ETA to your facility 5 minutes."
ER Nurse: "10-4 Knights. Jesus, not another HCA speed freak. Thats the third one this week."
06-29-2004, 07:57 AM
#6
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: CT, USA
Posts: 3,058
RE: High Country getting 350 FPS?
ORIGINAL: Todd1700
Yeah but they achieve these speeds by using a dangerously light weight arrow. A bowtec or mathews would shoot just as fast or faster with that light of an arrow. Here is my impression of what will eventually happen to the people who keep shooting HCA bows with arrows that light.
EMT: "Knights ambulance to Mercy General ER.. do you read?"
ER Nurse: "We read you knights"
EMT: "We are in route to your facility with a 33 year old white male who has what appears to be an idler wheel from a compound bow lodged in his left nostril. Subjects vital signs are as follows, heart rate 133, blood pressure 200 over 110, respirations 34 per minute. Subject appears dazed, has a blank expressionless stare and keeps mumbling the word BOOM every 30 seconds. Subject also seems to have lost all control over his bowels and bladder as well. ETA to your facility 5 minutes."
ER Nurse: "10-4 Knights. Jesus, not another HCA speed freak. Thats the third one this week."
Yeah but they achieve these speeds by using a dangerously light weight arrow. A bowtec or mathews would shoot just as fast or faster with that light of an arrow. Here is my impression of what will eventually happen to the people who keep shooting HCA bows with arrows that light.
EMT: "Knights ambulance to Mercy General ER.. do you read?"
ER Nurse: "We read you knights"
EMT: "We are in route to your facility with a 33 year old white male who has what appears to be an idler wheel from a compound bow lodged in his left nostril. Subjects vital signs are as follows, heart rate 133, blood pressure 200 over 110, respirations 34 per minute. Subject appears dazed, has a blank expressionless stare and keeps mumbling the word BOOM every 30 seconds. Subject also seems to have lost all control over his bowels and bladder as well. ETA to your facility 5 minutes."
ER Nurse: "10-4 Knights. Jesus, not another HCA speed freak. Thats the third one this week."
. Brilliant!The guys who shoot them seem to love them, but I've no faith in HCA's carbon risers, or split limb system. If I was going to try that stunt, I'd buy a Newberry (they are warrantied for those arrows), as they seem to be built tighter and more stout.
06-29-2004, 09:47 AM
#7
Fork Horn
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: usa
Posts: 226
RE: High Country getting 350 FPS?
you are right those light arrows are the reason they get their 350 speed but i can tell you for a fact that i have a carbon 4 runner extreme and just bought a new bowtech mighty mite and can shoot the same carbon express 300 through them both and the high country smokes the mighty mite but the mighty mite is smoother and has less vibration and that is with the same draw length and the same poundage. so high countrys are pretty fast with out those light arrows.
06-29-2004, 09:50 AM
#8
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: East Yapank NY USA
Posts: 3,457
RE: High Country getting 350 FPS?
that i have a carbon 4 runner extreme and just bought a new bowtech mighty mite and can shoot the same carbon express 300 through them both and the high country smokes the mighty mite
What speeds are you getting out of both bows?
Thanks
06-30-2004, 02:25 AM
#10
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Pine Hill Alabama USA
Posts: 1,280
RE: High Country getting 350 FPS?
I talked to a guy who went to a big expo event where HCA had a booth demonstrating this amazing new high speed bow. Mathews also had a booth there as well and just to prove a point one of the Mathews reps took one of those extremely light arrows and fired it from a Mathews Black Max through a chronograph. It fired that arrow just as fast. Thus proving, it ain't the bow it's the dangerously light arrow. Oh, and I also happen to know that HCA had one of their demo bows blow up at an expo while firing those featherweight arrows.
Lesson? Stick to at least 5 grains per pound of draw weight (preferably a little more) or risk seeing me (an ER nurse) standing over you with that "I told you so you dumbass" look on my face.
Lesson? Stick to at least 5 grains per pound of draw weight (preferably a little more) or risk seeing me (an ER nurse) standing over you with that "I told you so you dumbass" look on my face.