Ya'll can keep the speed....I'm goin heavy.
07-17-2008, 09:40 PM
#61
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RE: Ya'll can keep the speed....I'm goin heavy.
WOW!!! Now thats heavy!! 
ORIGINAL: Matt / PA
Since when is a 480 gr arrow "Heavy"? LOL
Remember "back in the day" when most of us didn't have a clue what our 2315s with 125gr broadheads weighed.
If you wanna feel heavy (and some guys will tell you THESE don't even qualify as heavy) you should heft one of my 625gr recurve arrows. [:-] Feels like if you dropped it with it's 220gr Muzzy Phantom that it would stick you to the floor.
Since when is a 480 gr arrow "Heavy"? LOL
Remember "back in the day" when most of us didn't have a clue what our 2315s with 125gr broadheads weighed.
If you wanna feel heavy (and some guys will tell you THESE don't even qualify as heavy) you should heft one of my 625gr recurve arrows. [:-] Feels like if you dropped it with it's 220gr Muzzy Phantom that it would stick you to the floor.
07-17-2008, 09:42 PM
#62
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RE: Ya'll can keep the speed....I'm goin heavy.
ORIGINAL: Matt / PA
Since when is a 480 gr arrow "Heavy"? LOL
Remember "back in the day" when most of us didn't have a clue what our 2315s with 125gr broadheads weighed.
If you wanna feel heavy (and some guys will tell you THESE don't even qualify as heavy) you should heft one of my 625gr recurve arrows. [:-] Feels like if you dropped it with it's 220gr Muzzy Phantom that it would stick you to the floor.
Since when is a 480 gr arrow "Heavy"? LOL
Remember "back in the day" when most of us didn't have a clue what our 2315s with 125gr broadheads weighed.
If you wanna feel heavy (and some guys will tell you THESE don't even qualify as heavy) you should heft one of my 625gr recurve arrows. [:-] Feels like if you dropped it with it's 220gr Muzzy Phantom that it would stick you to the floor.
07-18-2008, 06:06 AM
#63
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RE: Ya'll can keep the speed....I'm goin heavy.
Yeah, those are heavy. You're getting into weighing arrows in ounces instead of grains....
But compared to the 355 grain arrow I shot last year.....480 IS heavy. And it's 6.8 grains per pound of draw weight; how many guys shoot that anymore?
But compared to the 355 grain arrow I shot last year.....480 IS heavy. And it's 6.8 grains per pound of draw weight; how many guys shoot that anymore?
07-18-2008, 06:21 AM
#64
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RE: Ya'll can keep the speed....I'm goin heavy.
ORIGINAL: mobow
Yeah, those are heavy. You're getting into weighing arrows in ounces instead of grains....
But compared to the 355 grain arrow I shot last year.....480 IS heavy. And it's 6.8 grains per pound of draw weight; how many guys shoot that anymore?
Yeah, those are heavy. You're getting into weighing arrows in ounces instead of grains....
But compared to the 355 grain arrow I shot last year.....480 IS heavy. And it's 6.8 grains per pound of draw weight; how many guys shoot that anymore?
07-18-2008, 06:35 AM
#65
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RE: Ya'll can keep the speed....I'm goin heavy.
ORIGINAL: Germ
Mobow if you want a ten pager, you are going to have to start getting all the skirt wearing light arrow shooters all worked up
ORIGINAL: mobow
Yeah, those are heavy. You're getting into weighing arrows in ounces instead of grains....
But compared to the 355 grain arrow I shot last year.....480 IS heavy. And it's 6.8 grains per pound of draw weight; how many guys shoot that anymore?
Yeah, those are heavy. You're getting into weighing arrows in ounces instead of grains....
But compared to the 355 grain arrow I shot last year.....480 IS heavy. And it's 6.8 grains per pound of draw weight; how many guys shoot that anymore?
Something like that? Or maybe by suggesting that it's not a skirt, it's a kilt? 
07-18-2008, 08:31 AM
#68
Join Date: Jul 2007
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RE: Ya'll can keep the speed....I'm goin heavy.
Heavy = penetration = kill. Most you are hunting deer so arrows edging up towards 500 gr from a 70 lb bow and a solid BH should obliterate anything it hits on a deer! Which is a good point because like Buckmaster says, you have greater margin for error with a heavy arrow arch and the chance for hitting a shoulder is greater.
07-18-2008, 08:54 AM
#69
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RE: Ya'll can keep the speed....I'm goin heavy.
Let me clue you to an old trick that I doubt many people know about in these days of light arrows, fast bows and flat trajectories. When you're lining up a 30+ yard shot on an animal and don't know if you're going to clear the limb out there in front of you, take a quick peek at your 20 pin. If the pin is under the obstruction, you're good to go.
That 20 pin will tell you pretty much what the high point of your trajectory is at the distance you're shooting.
That 20 pin will tell you pretty much what the high point of your trajectory is at the distance you're shooting.
07-18-2008, 08:55 AM
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RE: Ya'll can keep the speed....I'm goin heavy.
ORIGINAL: Arthur P
Let me clue you to an old trick that I doubt many people know about in these days of light arrows, fast bows and flat trajectories. When you're lining up a 30+ yard shot on an animal and don't know if you're going to clear the limb out there in front of you, take a quick peek at your 20 pin. If the pin is under the obstruction, you're good to go.
That 20 pin will tell you pretty much what the high point of your trajectory is at the distance you're shooting.
Let me clue you to an old trick that I doubt many people know about in these days of light arrows, fast bows and flat trajectories. When you're lining up a 30+ yard shot on an animal and don't know if you're going to clear the limb out there in front of you, take a quick peek at your 20 pin. If the pin is under the obstruction, you're good to go.
That 20 pin will tell you pretty much what the high point of your trajectory is at the distance you're shooting.