I'm curious as to the reason your pulling the weight you are! I shot some bow as of late in all different weights! As low as 35# all the way up to 57#, the latter being the most I've yet to draw! On my hunting bow I'm drawing 50# pretty much on the money! Shooting these leighter weight bow kinda put things in a new light for me! I really liked the lighter weights for shooting,stumping and all around good fun! Do you guys pull as weight much as you possibly can?? Steve I couldn't imagine shooting the weight your shooting on a daily basis, your the man!
I thought about this long and hard before buying the Grizzly at 45# Joe. I am hunting with 63# on my compound. I can draw and hold it well in the worst situations I have encountered so far. I knew with my short draw length, I would be pulling less than 45# on the Grizzly. I think, as we (I) age, our muscles need more attention to tone than brute strength. I would rather "build and see" than "rip and burn". If after shooting the Grizzly for a while, I feel confident in moving up, I will. (Probably no more than 10 or 20lbs) Personally, I don't have the need to be shooting really fast arrows. I want them to thump when they connect. All that said, I will probably keep the Grizzly to practice the way you are referring to. (Light and easy) LAEq
Bobby, I bought my Son a 69' Grizzly with a 35# pull at 28". He;s not pulling the total weight but I really enjoy shooting it, even though its a recurve.... It just a fun bow to shoot! He also has a 65' Kodiak Magnum that 43#, once again a fun bow to shoot! I shot a 41# recurve over the weekend that sent my hunting arrows downrange with some serious power and a quickness! I'm starting to like the lower weight bows!
Well I kind of got used to pulling the draw weight (73lbs) and for that reason I'll probably stay In that draw weight with my next set up. The only reason I went with that higher draw weight to begin with was because of going out west and hunting bigger animals with bigger rib bones (elk). After reading and listening to what some of the bowyers are saying today Is that a 60lb bow of today Is just efficient as the 70lb bow of 15 years ago. I guess I wouldn't need to shoot the draw weight I do but at least I know I'm going to have some major thump on Impact.
My 2 primary bows are 54#@30". I have 70# limbs (at my dl) if I want them for one bow, but I don't use them at all anymore. Aside from them I have bows from 35# to 60#. I feel between 50# and 60# is my optimum weight for comfortable shooting and I don't need a wide variety of arrows that way.
I'm shooting 52#@29" with 560 grain carbons. That's sufficient to do anything I want to do around here. Schultzy.. Somebody's pulling your leg about the 60# bow being equal to a 70# bow of 15 years ago. It isn't true!! I wish you could come here for a day. We could start with a 1951 Bear Grizzly and try most all the 62" grizzly's made.. you could try almost every Bear Kodiak ever made in Michigan.. I guarantee by the time you got done you'd change your mind. woodsman
With some of the woods their putting In the limbs these days and the speeds there getting out of these bows It's almost kind of hard not to argue that some of these bows at 60lbs (depending on brand possibly) are just as efficient or better then my 14 year old 73lb recurve was speed wise. I'm the farthest thing from a bowyer but It's just what I've been told by a few bowyers the last week or so. Maybe some of these bowyers are filling me full of BS too but I thought It made some sense. But I could be totally In the wrong here too.
THis is what I was eluding to earlier today Steve about the wood types being used in construction. Is it possible that the newer woods being used/combined can produce a faster bow? Or, is it all in design/dimensions of the bow?
Definitely possible Bobby. Some of these bowyers will put In a carbon strip In the limbs to Increase speed If desired by the client.
I believe I am 54lbs at 28 in. Plenty for what I need and I knew I needed LOTS of practice, I wanted a bow that I could shoot all day long and never get tired.
I have played around some with carbon core and there was no bennefit speed wise over action bamboo, the down side to carbon core is the price and more vibration.:mad1: Back to the original question. 52lb @ 27" is my preffered weight
I wouldn't go with It myself but I think It was a Morrison bow that the bowyer put the carbon backing on It and got like 5 fps faster arrow speed. On another site also I read where another bowyer got like 8 fps faster speeds but I can't for the life of me remember what bowyer that was. Adding carbon has got to add to the overall weight of the bow too doesn't It Russ?
Steve Yes it does add some weight but not all that much. All I seen between the 2 bows both RD 55lb @ 28" was about 5fps more with the carbon, the draw was stiffer on the carbon core bow as well, for me the extra cost to gain 5fps a stiffer draw and more hand shock is not worth it.
Thanks Russ for the reply. Sounds like you had about the same findings then. Keeping busy down there?
Actually nothing has really changed as far as "new" core wood in the limbs. The only core wood that I've seen make a significant difference is Bamboo.. A friend and I had the opportunity to compare older bows, 1951 and up, thru a chronograph. There is very little difference and in fact we found one old bear recurve that blew away the new bows, It not only out shot them for speed but it had a remarkable "cast" to it and it seems to all be in the design. A good bow is a good bow and there is little difference between new and old. Actually design makes some difference in bow performance but you'll notice a bigger difference in the "shootability". We made a form based off a 1962 bear Kodiak. We shortened the riser by 2 inches but kept the overall bow length at 60", used a bamboo core. Man, what a nice shooting bow.. woodsman
