savedbygrace

Thanks to all of ya'll for your input about the Tomkat. I bought it a few days ago and like it very much. I had been shooting another bow that was my friends just for practice but I like this Tomkat alot more. It's not the fastest bow around,but with my income and being a "wet behind the ears" bowhunter I didn't want to go out and spend a whole lot without getting into the grove of things. Anyway one problem I have run into is that the good Lord did not bless me with long arms. My draw lenght is set to the shortest I can get it which is 27" and even that length is a tad bit to long but I have learn to adjust to it and I am shooting good groups. On the good side the Lord did bless me with some decent upper body strengh. I shot my bow for about 2 hours yesterday nonstop with the weight at 70lbs and it didnt phase me a bit (as far as getting tired). Since my draw length is short should I leave the weight maxed out since I loose speed because of my short DL? Thanks for any input.

DavidPaul007

Like you, I have short arms. I use a 26" DL. IMO I would leave the bow maxed out at 70lbs to get all the speed I could with a short DL.

nubo

I agree with Dave ,as long as your not having to struggle to get to full draw then I'd leave it at it's max .Although if you don't shoot much over the winter I'd drop the draw wieght when you start up and gradually increase it as you feel more and more comfortable with it .

nubo

Kanga

The other guys have just about said it all.

If you are not sruglleing drawing the bow I would leave it maxed out.

Here is a little test get a chair and sit on it lift your feet off the floor then do a 3 second draw with the bow in that I mean take 3 seconds to draw the bow back.

If you have to sky the bow or struggle to draw it then back the poundage down until you can draw the bow nice and smoothly