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I'm nearly 65 years old, been bow hunting for 15 yrs. With arthur gathering in my shoulders, I've got to reduce the pull weight and increase the left off (this is a good reason to get a new bow).
I'm been pulling slightly over 60# with 65% left off. I hunt whitetails in the Texas Hill Country. (off the ground). I shoot a 27" XX75 Easton 2213 Superlite arrow with 80 gram TriLock Broadhead. I've got a nice supply of arrows and broadheads.
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I too am a senior citizen, been retired about 5 yrs, & most of my relations too, live in the Texas Hill Country, near Kimble county, (Junction, Telegraph, Kerrville & Fredericksburg) about 80 mi± west of San Antonio.
The deer are healthy there, my sister said a man who went to her church did not use a lot of meat, mostly raw veggies, and the only kind of meat he did eat was deer and & a few wild game birds: he was 95 yrs and still working at a bike shop.
I now live in the western desert & find it necessary sometimes to shoot 50± yds.. So I to wished to buy a bow with more let-off than the 65% of my older bows, yet shoot equal or better. I too use a light arrow for hunting with about an 80 gr head.
I tried the Bowtech Patriot single cam, 60# 30" draw, 80% let-off, shooting it at 63#: now going by the adds and what I was told by Bowtech"s techs, before buying it, I was expecting a lot more speed than we got. Shooting a little less than 5 gr lb we got less than 311 fps. We had got the single cam to keep things simpler.
On this forum someone told me that they shot a 70# Patriot backed off to 62# & it shot faster than the 60# jacked up to 64#. We got some 70# limbs and will see how they will do in that circumstances, in a couple of days: but the Bowtech tech said no, that most all bows were more efficient jacked all the way up. We will see??
I do love to shoot it, very little noise or vibs but when I buy something I want to see it function, near at least, to whatever is claimed of the product. So the 70# 30" will at least, let us compare it to the IBO claimed??
Will let you know in a few days how all works out.
It sounds like you are Not going to be needing an extreme speed, so the Liberty or Justice as suggested by someone above appears to be a good choice: and the Patriot? The verdict is still out on it for me: of coarse we are only talking speed here, I could not envisage a much better feel than this bow has.
Help this senior citizen spec out a new bow.
