60 or 70# limbs?
 

The bow I decided to go with has the 60# limbs... I am just curious as to what you guys set your bows at to hunt with? 60 felt nice but I am worried after time I will get bored and want to get he 70's.. How much are the limbs for a tribute? Does anyone know what the FPS is on a tribute with 60 pound limbs?

RE: 60 or 70# limbs?
 

you are looking at loosing roughly around 11 to 15 FPS
60 pounds is plenty enough to kill any thing on the north american continent.

RE: 60 or 70# limbs?
 

I agree, 60 is more than enough with any of the newer bows and an average draw length. Heck I shoot 26 inches of draw and between 55 and 60 lbs and don't have any trouble.

Now if you were going to get heavy into 3-D and wanted the fasted rig you could have I could see going to 70 lb limbs. Even then though you could just go with really light arrows.

My opinion is if you want to make shooting your bow harder go with a traditional set up;).

Heck, when I target shoot I like 45-50 lbs so I can shoot it comfortably for hours at a time.

Paul

RE: 60 or 70# limbs?
 

thanks paul, that is what I was thinking.. shooting a 70# draw bow for a couple hours will probaly wreak havoc on my shoulder.

RE: 60 or 70# limbs?
 

And after maybe 10 or 20 years your shoulders will be pulled apart and you might not be able to shoot at all. Now that is what gets boring.

I found out the hard way. Although I didn't need shoulder surgery I find that the weight keeps coming down. Right now I order 55# limbs and shoot between 52# and 55#.

Frankly you don't give up very much speed at all if your arrows are weightedproprtionatelyto the bow poundage. You may give up some kinetic energy, but accuracy is far more important. Heck, I've had bows shooting 300 fps at 27" draw and 53# shooting at 5gr/lb.

RE: 60 or 70# limbs?
 

Alright I thread I can add to!

My 2006 61# Tribute at 29" draw & nothing on the string except the loop and one bowjax on top.

SMOOTH MODS-
405 grains= 269
385 grains= 275 fps -this is what I currently hunt with.

When I switched mods the speed mods added 8 fps.
I prefer the smooth. The speeds felt (to me) like the draw my 65# Patriot provides even though the Tribute is only pulling 61#.

RE: 60 or 70# limbs?
 

60lbs is all i hunt with. That willblast through any deer or like size game.

RE: 60 or 70# limbs?
 

well i hunt at 70#, i like this becuase it is faster and i think how hard it hits the targets and animals. But if you like 60# go with it. It will still take down a deer. My buddy took on down with a 50# compound this year. He can not pull any more then that and it works for him. So do what you like not others

RE: 60 or 70# limbs?
 

i think you did the right thing for your archery career.

RE: 60 or 70# limbs?
 

If you get the 70 lb limbs you canturn them down to 60 lbs and increase poundage as you gain experience or needmore speed. If you have pivoting limb pockets you probably won't see much of a performance difference between the 70 lb limbs turned downvs. 60 lb limbs maxed.