Draw weight/length vs. arrow weight/length question.
Hello everyone! I’ve been away for some time. It’s been a rough couple of years for me (pretty bad car accident and surgeries and then a pretty significant heart attack, at age 37…) but I’m getting back into it, and doing pretty well now.
Before my luck went down hill I’d just purchased a new bow at 70lbs and I have a pretty short draw length. My arrows are cut to 28” at 1” over my biscuit (I also have a NAP drop away but prefer the biscuit).
I’d purchased 6075 arrows (since that is what “the chart” said I needed). Bare shaft testing, and broad head/field point testing indicated that I needed to either lower my draw weight or increase my point weight. Having an already slow bow, I opted to increase the tip weight to 125 grains, which for the most part did the trick. This is when my luck when down hill and I took and extended break…
Where I am now;
At twenty yards my bare shaft and fletched shafts are dead on. My field tips and broad heads are dead on to thirty yards. My issue is that I’m not shooting that great at 40 yards. I can hit the vitals every time (with field points and broad heads (slick trick)), but if the vitals were any smaller I’d be missing for sure. I’m thinking that adding any hunting pressure, forty yards is probably too far out for me right now. I would like to be able to shoot out to forty though, which is why I’m looking for some help. Part of me feels that this is the price you pay for such a short axle (and inexpensive) bow (30” axle to axle Fred Bear Lights out model). On the other hand, I’m wondering if since I’m cutting my arrows down so short if maybe I can lower my arrow weight (4560?) and point weight (100 grains?) to pick up some speed and maybe get some better groups at forty.
What do you think?
Also, do any of you know of any graph or matrix that takes arrow length into account?
Thanks in advance.
Sam