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Old 02-14-2002 | 12:02 PM
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Default RE: Speed Trap!!

Deerthug,

I put all of my bows through my chronograph...after I am done setting them up and tuning them.

The last bow I owned, Hoyt Havoctec Versa, was set for a 65 lb draw weight, 31 inch draw length and shooting a 420 grain arrow it shot 275 fps. With a 360 grain arrow it shot 288 fps. That is with a fully loaded string...brass nockset, rubber eliminator button below it, two rubber eliminator buttons below the idler wheel and a medium sized Shurz-a-Peep peep sight.

With just a tie on nockset and with the bow set at the same specs I got 297-298 fps out of it. If I bumped the draw weight up to 70 lbs then I should have gotten another 9-10 fps out of it which would put the total speed up to around 307-308. That would be about right since the IBO speed for the bow is 300 fps and I am shooting a one inch longer draw length.
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