Chad, I don' t think there will be a point where you lose penetration with more weight, but there definitely will be a point of diminishing returns where you don' t gain as much penetration as you lose trajectory. I wouldn' t even consider anything over 12 grains per pound, and that might even be pushing things. At the draw weight you' re talking about, anywhere from 8-10 grains should be plenty.

Something I have never talked about on the forums before, because of the flamethrowers, is the time I shot through 2 hogs, one 275 pounds and the other 220 pounds, on the same shot. We were more interested in killing the things off than anything else because of the damage they were doing to the fields. Yes, it was an unethical shot, but ethics don' t come into the discussion when you' re talking extermination. Anyway, I was shooting a 90 pound recurve and full length 2419 arrow tipped with a Bear Razorhead. They were standing right next to each other, maybe a foot or so apart and the arrow zipped through both of them.

I don' t have a clue how fast the arrow was going because I' d never heard of shooting arrows over a chronograph back then, but I do remember it seemed awful fast and flat. The arrow weighed around 700 grains, I guess. Somewhere just under 8 grains per pound. Kinda light on grains per pound for a trad arrow, but still pretty darn heavy.

By the way, both hogs were guests of honor at the farmer' s church barbeque the next day.