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High Country getting 350 FPS?
Lately in all the big hunting magazines high country has had ads out for its bows with the Pef-X cam and speed pro arrows that supposedly achieve 350+FPS? is this true? are they any good?
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RE: High Country getting 350 FPS?
Yes it is probably true but the speed pro arrows are only 5gr per inch not 5gr per pound.
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RE: High Country getting 350 FPS?
:eek:I Thought that was the speed at which the limbs went through the chrono.. not the arrows???:eek:
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RE: High Country getting 350 FPS?
If you ask a HCA shooter why they did that they simply tell you their bows are that much stronger and if for some reason it does explode they replace it, no questions asked!
:eek: I say, what about your face!???? |
RE: High Country getting 350 FPS?
Yeah but they achieve these speeds by using a dangerously light weight arrow. A bowtec or mathews would shoot just as fast or faster with that light of an arrow. Here is my impression of what will eventually happen to the people who keep shooting HCA bows with arrows that light.
EMT: "Knights ambulance to Mercy General ER.. do you read?" ER Nurse: "We read you knights" EMT: "We are in route to your facility with a 33 year old white male who has what appears to be an idler wheel from a compound bow lodged in his left nostril. Subjects vital signs are as follows, heart rate 133, blood pressure 200 over 110, respirations 34 per minute. Subject appears dazed, has a blank expressionless stare and keeps mumbling the word BOOM every 30 seconds. Subject also seems to have lost all control over his bowels and bladder as well. ETA to your facility 5 minutes." ER Nurse: "10-4 Knights. Jesus, not another HCA speed freak. Thats the third one this week." |
RE: High Country getting 350 FPS?
ORIGINAL: Todd1700 Yeah but they achieve these speeds by using a dangerously light weight arrow. A bowtec or mathews would shoot just as fast or faster with that light of an arrow. Here is my impression of what will eventually happen to the people who keep shooting HCA bows with arrows that light. EMT: "Knights ambulance to Mercy General ER.. do you read?" ER Nurse: "We read you knights" EMT: "We are in route to your facility with a 33 year old white male who has what appears to be an idler wheel from a compound bow lodged in his left nostril. Subjects vital signs are as follows, heart rate 133, blood pressure 200 over 110, respirations 34 per minute. Subject appears dazed, has a blank expressionless stare and keeps mumbling the word BOOM every 30 seconds. Subject also seems to have lost all control over his bowels and bladder as well. ETA to your facility 5 minutes." ER Nurse: "10-4 Knights. Jesus, not another HCA speed freak. Thats the third one this week."  . Brilliant!The guys who shoot them seem to love them, but I've no faith in HCA's carbon risers, or split limb system. If I was going to try that stunt, I'd buy a Newberry (they are warrantied for those arrows), as they seem to be built tighter and more stout. |
RE: High Country getting 350 FPS?
you are right those light arrows are the reason they get their 350 speed but i can tell you for a fact that i have a carbon 4 runner extreme and just bought a new bowtech mighty mite and can shoot the same carbon express 300 through them both and the high country smokes the mighty mite but the mighty mite is smoother and has less vibration and that is with the same draw length and the same poundage. so high countrys are pretty fast with out those light arrows.
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RE: High Country getting 350 FPS?
that i have a carbon 4 runner extreme and just bought a new bowtech mighty mite and can shoot the same carbon express 300 through them both and the high country smokes the mighty mite What speeds are you getting out of both bows? Thanks;) |
RE: High Country getting 350 FPS?
not sure about the arrow weight but the speeds is mighty mite 250 to 255 and the high country 278 but i do like shooting the bowtech better because of the smoothness.
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RE: High Country getting 350 FPS?
I talked to a guy who went to a big expo event where HCA had a booth demonstrating this amazing new high speed bow. Mathews also had a booth there as well and just to prove a point one of the Mathews reps took one of those extremely light arrows and fired it from a Mathews Black Max through a chronograph. It fired that arrow just as fast. Thus proving, it ain't the bow it's the dangerously light arrow. Oh, and I also happen to know that HCA had one of their demo bows blow up at an expo while firing those featherweight arrows.
Lesson? Stick to at least 5 grains per pound of draw weight (preferably a little more) or risk seeing me (an ER nurse) standing over you with that "I told you so you dumbass" look on my face. |
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