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Re: What's your weight [Re: Ark Trapper] #7364809
09/26/21 03:50 PM
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Holding all 57 pounds …with fingers on the string

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Re: What's your weight [Re: Ark Trapper] #7364829
09/26/21 04:20 PM
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60# Hill style longbow

Ness that a cedar bow?


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Re: What's your weight [Re: the Blak Spot] #7364851
09/26/21 04:40 PM
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Originally Posted by the Blak Spot
60# Hill style longbow

Ness that a cedar bow?


74 inch English Yew Bow

Last edited by Nessmuck; 09/26/21 04:41 PM.

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Re: What's your weight [Re: Ark Trapper] #7364861
09/26/21 04:50 PM
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My recurve is 52lbs at my draw length, Long bow around 60lbs. My old Jennings compound use most time is set at I believe 60. Won fancy Mathews on raffle with different let off point. Fought to draw decent so they replaced the limbs so could drop to 45 or 50 can't recall. My shoulder is screwed up now so still had trouble pulling Mathews way it lets off. So I gave it to my son to shoot. Haven't tried pulling the old Jennings lately. Have shot couple of the carp bows this summer few times. Old beater Darton compound think it's set at 35-40 don't really know. Just know launches carp arrow good enough and I can pull it all day if want.
Got me a Mathews crossbow now too won on raffle no idea what poundage it's set at. Shoots like rifle out 50 yards no problem. My shoulder like it is most likely be using that if bow hunt this fall..


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Re: What's your weight [Re: Ark Trapper] #7364980
09/26/21 06:51 PM
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Missouri
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Hill longbow. 53lbs at 27inches

Re: What's your weight [Re: Ark Trapper] #7365004
09/26/21 07:05 PM
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Was 55 then50 and now at the bottom of 45 and not sure of myself with that. Been shooting 3 or4 arrows each time and I do get shakky. I am a right hander but due to problems have to shoot lefty-not good


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Re: What's your weight [Re: Ark Trapper] #7365020
09/26/21 07:15 PM
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70lb. With my short draw length I need All the help I can get

Re: What's your weight [Re: Ark Trapper] #7365023
09/26/21 07:17 PM
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The first bow I owned was a PSE Mach Flite 4 with a max draw weight of eighty pounds that I shot at seventy-five. That was with fifty percent let-off. After a lengthy hiatus of six or seven years, I'll be lucky to draw sixty pounds. Lost too much upper body strength as I've aged.

Re: What's your weight [Re: Ark Trapper] #7365192
09/26/21 09:55 PM
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62#

Re: What's your weight [Re: Ark Trapper] #7365253
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64 lbs.. Mathews Drenalin..

Re: What's your weight [Re: Ark Trapper] #7365258
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82# Hoyt

Re: What's your weight [Re: Ark Trapper] #7365311
09/27/21 12:58 AM
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I backed my compound off to 55lb from 70lb. I just shoot cheap walmart arrows and muzzy broadheads. I still get complete passthroughs on deer and i can hold at full draw until lunch if i have too

Re: What's your weight [Re: Wallace] #7365319
09/27/21 01:23 AM
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I do not know for sure, and never did. 29" LOP, Beeman ICS 400 shaft, and 100 grain Muzzys. BTW, my moose hunt turned into a solo hunt at the last minute, so I killed my moose with my Whelen, but the bow/arrow combo has worked well on many pigs and turkeys.

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Re: What's your weight [Re: Ark Trapper] #7365432
09/27/21 08:41 AM
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52 lb reflex deflex longbow

Re: What's your weight [Re: Ark Trapper] #7365441
09/27/21 08:52 AM
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but shot placement is more important than draw weight once your over 40#


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Re: What's your weight [Re: Ark Trapper] #7365459
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Holding all 57 pounds of it @ 28 inch…74 inch English Yew Selfbow. Arrows are Sitka Spruce.

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Re: What's your weight [Re: Ark Trapper] #7365515
09/27/21 10:58 AM
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Today I still shoot 72#.
In the 80's we shot all PSE and Martin. PSE Mach 1 Mach 2 and Vector, 80 pound limbs we shimmed to 90 to 100#. Yep screaming devils from 312 to 327 feet per second. Crazy nd blew up a bunch of them.

Re: What's your weight [Re: Ark Trapper] #7365551
09/27/21 12:01 PM
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With wheels I used to shoot 104 lbs. When I got back into trad I was shooting a 75 lb recurve, now a 65 lb longbow.


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Re: What's your weight [Re: Ark Trapper] #7365553
09/27/21 12:06 PM
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65# bear attitude compound. nothing fancy but i kill plenty of deer every year with it.

Re: What's your weight [Re: Ark Trapper] #7365941
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54 # recurve

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