Can I shoot 250 grain arrows from my PSE Stinger 3G, 62 lbs, 27" draw length? Does it matter what grain arrows you shoot?
Ibo standards recomend 5grn arrow wt. For every lb draw wt. Which would be 310grns for 62lbs. Lighter than that you risk a dry fire. Not only that youll have less penetration and more bow noise. I do assume you meant 250grns without a broadhead or field tip so that would obviously bring your arrow wt. To above 310. Also consider the arrow spine, in your case you should be at around .400.
Nope! You need to go heavier. Thats super light. Like stated above, 5gpp minimum! Unless you are only talking about bare shaft weight, then you'd probably be fine by the time you added your broadhead, insert, and fletched.
Thank you. I was talking about bare spine weight. I wanted lighter arrows and better quality arrows mainly because I missed my first doe with my bow yesterday and think she jumped the string. And I'm down to one arrow because I lost ther five sighting my bow in (Lol). Thanks Again!
If you lost 5 arrows sighting in, you need to move closer and practice more. Loosing arrows at that rate gets real expensive, real quick. Get something in the 8.5 gr per inch and you'll be ok.
I'm really not trying to be mean here but, if you lost 5 arrows sighting in and then missed a doe, you probably have more problems than arrow weight. I would make a back stop out of something like a bunch of hay bails or like I did and used old carpet. Sounds to me like you need to get some new arrows and practice a lot before you go back in the woods. We can help you out with everything you need help with here starting with form then going into all the other good stuff. How long have you been shooting? How far out do you practice? How tight are your groups from all the differences?
Yeah man, do a ton of practicing before you go back out. I am glad you missed the doe instead of wounding one bad and making it suffer. Archery takes some care and consideration when taking game. I'll help you out as much as I can if you promise you wont take a bow back out until you can hit your target. And I don't mean some times I mean all the time. And I mean at least a pie plate at 30yd, I would like to see better. Anyways, All of us on here would agree you need a lot more practice than a week before you go out and shoot at deer.
That's why I am asking you... Is it the number 250 you came up with the weight or the Spine... those are 2 completely different things.
Being new you may not know the difference in spine and weight. So was the 250 you mentioned written on the arrow or did you put the arrow on a scale and actually weigh it. If it was written on the arrow that would be spine which deals with how much the arrow flexes when shot. The weight can be determined by measuring the length and multipling by the grains per inch found on the manufactures website.
