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Old 11-03-2004, 10:33 PM
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jhalfhill
 
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Default RE: arrow weight v. speed for penetration

ORIGINAL: Bigpapascout
My primary hunting rig shoots a 260 GN 9/32 dia arrowusing a 2" long with a 5/8" profile vane traveling 355 FPS 73 pounds energy off the string ,
at 60 yards is still carrying 59 foot pounds of KE and still traveling 319 feet per second and has only dropped 57 inches.
Holy **** what kind of bow are you shooting? My BowTech Samson is the fastest bow i could possibly find other than ones 90lb draw and higher. With an 80lb draw and with light arrows i was getting a max of about 320 fps. With my heavy arrows I'm using for hunting I'm getting 308 fps.
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