Not from any bowI am hunting with. [:'(]My arrows weigh more thantwice that and always will. Shoot a light enough arrow and you can get to 400 fps with many bows today but at what price?



Thermacell, best mosquito repellant for hunting ever invented.

Slick Trick broadheads. No other broadhead made combines the accuracy, strength, durability,cutting diameter, sharpness, penetration, and overall quality in one single broadhead like the slick trick does. The ST has absolutely everything a broadhead should have and at a very reasonable price.

Sims Limbsaver Material. SSHHHHHH can you hear it?

bigbulls - I remember when everybody was saying "Carbon Arrows?" Hah! No way in He__ that you'll EVER catch me shooting plastic arrows out of my bow! You don't need all that speed to kill deer. Besides, those arrows are no good, they'll ruin the meat, they'll blow your bow up, they're too brittle, etc...

I know I was guilty. I was also the same stupid kid who thought that peep sights were unnecessary, mechanical release aids were just a dumb waste of money, and that compound bows would never cost more than deer rifles.

I know butI was very quick to jump on the carbon arrow thing when they first appeared.

I started shooting a loopabout 16 years ago.

I don't remember the last timeI shot a compound with fingers.

Now if they can produce a compound bow that will shoot 400 fps with a normal weight arrow and won't pull your arm out of its socket when you draw it then that will be something.

I guarantee you that I have more than one bow on my shelves right nowthat will shoot 400fps with a 5.5 gpiarrow. Problem is that an arrow that light is very hard on the bow, very loud, does not generate much KE and momentum and what it does generate it looses very quickly as it travels down range compared to a 450 grain or heavier arrow.

A 30 inch draw, 70 pounds, firing a High Country speed pro arrow with their 55 grain tip that weighs about 250 grains. A PSE X-forceand APA black mamba X1 could break 400fps.

GMMAT,

You got me thinking about that target thing today while I unloaded about 30 shots in my target in the backyard in about 15-20 minutes. With all the practicing we do with foam targets, field points, etc., imagine the really old school hunters (and way back to the beginning of archery), practice must have been a real pain in the arse and somewhat limited. Aside from the huge changes in bow technology, if you had wood shafts and flint arrows, what did you shoot your arrows into for practice, and could you afford to break them having spent a couple days making one? It puts all this gear stuff into perspective. One day, after I feel I've accomplished something with a compoud bow, its that kind of stuff that makes me want to shoot recurve. If people did it for milennia with less, then I would like to think I could achieve it.

Garmin Rino 120 GPS/two way radio all in one. Sweet little unit. I can "beam" my location to my dad on his and he on mine when we're out in the big woods killin deer. Plus, i can send text messages to him on it and talk to him on the radio on it. An INVALUABLE tool. Very very practical.

Right on. I had the 110 and upgraded to the 530 last spring. Unbelievable GPS unit.

I gotta agree with the handheld gps, since I hunt large tracts of public land in northern wisconsin and we rarely worry about mosquitoes up there

ok, see, this is how a forum really kicks in, next time I go to Costa Rica I'll have thermacells.
I was taking some nice birdpics with my 50-500mm lens and didn't noticetheinsectseating up my legs, even tho' I DEET' myself.
And DEET only works on small domestic bugs, as I found out, or it's a nice way to wash off the dials and grades of cameras and stuff...



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Carbon arrows, lazer range finder.