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Old 09-12-2002 | 02:08 PM
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silentassassin
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Default RE: Arrow weight revelation?

<BLOCKQUOTE id=quote<font size=1 face='Verdana, Arial, Helvetica' id=quote>quote:<hr height=1 noshade id=quote>I figured this 542 grain arrow should move along at 276 fps <hr height=1 noshade id=quote></BLOCKQUOTE id=quote></font id=quote><font face='Verdana, Arial, Helvetica' size=2 id=quote>
You must be pulling at least 90lbs of draw weight. If not there is no bow in the world hitting those kind of speeds at that draw length, including the Black Knight2. Secondly, you can throw all of those estimations out of the window. If you want to see what your bow will do under those conditions, then &quot;TEST&quot; it under those conditions. Don't assume or do calculations shoot it. In archery like life there are limitations to everything. The light but fast thing doesn't mean tweak every little itsy bitsy fps that you can out of a bow(at least not for me) It means stick around 6 grains per pound and significantly improve your arrow trajectory over what you would have been shooting with aluminums that weigh roughly 9.5 grains per pound. Ask anyone that shot aluminum for years and had two pins out to 30 yards and then switched to carbons and only needed 1 pin to 30 yards (witnessed 100 myself) if shooting a lighter arrow won't improve your range estimation errors. Now I can't speak to what an arrow does at 120 yards(never shot one that far and probably won't) but I can tell you exactly what they will do out to 35 yards because I have chronoed aluminums and carbons out to that distance. I would really like to see your setup if you wind up with a setup shooting 276fps with a 542 grain arrow. You would be shooting roughly 150 grains more arrow weight than me at 1.5 inches less draw length(I shoot 70 lbs). WOW

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