How heavy are your arrows?

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  1. steves1911

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    Just wondering what most are shooting this year. My finished arrow weight is 417grs and I am starting to wonder if I should step up in weight since I'm shooting mechanical broadheads now. The bow is hoyt faktor 34 29"dl set at 68lbs. Arrows are gold tip velocity xt 300 with a 125grain grim reaper fatal steel 1.5inch cut.
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  3. Stubert

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    Last season I was using GT pro hunters with a 1.75" Grim reaper on a 60# bow. arrow weight was 380 gr. and pass thru were common.
     
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    tynimiller Legendary Woodsman

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    Don't have my paper infront of me with exact specs but I know it's over 440 total grains.
     
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  5. indynotch50

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    I think you'll find mine are "light" from most on this site. I'm right at about 400-403 grains finished.
     
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    495 ish. Going to try and lighten up a little get to the low/mid 400's.
     
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  8. LittleChief

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    530 grains.
     
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    TheHardWoods913 Die Hard Bowhunter

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    About 485 grains +/- Gold Tip Kinetics 10.4 gpi with 100 grain solid broadhead and 60 grains weight upfront, 13% FOC
     
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    415-418 finished weight.
     
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    At those specs you won't see any problems with penetration with a 417 grain arrow. Right now my arrows weigh in at 446 with 125 grain heads and 421 with 100 grain heads. These are coming from my faktor turbo
     
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    412. gr. on 73#
     
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    I just built some that are roughly 615 grains total.
     
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    445gr, I`d lighten them up if my state didn`t have the 6 gr per lb rule.
     
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    444 total weight
     
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    443gr. 100gr broadhead, 50gr outsert, FOC is around 15% i believe. Victory VAP's
     
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    I designed my latest arrows to stay between 11 and 15% foc and range between 430 and 495 grains. That's swapping from 75-125 grain heads and std nock or lumenoks. My speed range is from 280 to just over 300 fps.
     
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    60# bow - 428gr
    70# bow - 524gr
     
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  21. steves1911

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    Judging by responses mine aren't too terribly light. They fly great and the deer here aren't huge so I'm gonna stick with it. I gotta ask those of you with the 500 plus grain arrows are you hunting large game with them or just deer?
     
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