Any one checking their arrow speed with a crony? If so-how is it shooting compared to what you thought? Whats your set up? ETC!

Mine is about 6 years old a PSE Maxis 4, I break around 70 lbs shoot a 31" XX75 2213 with 100gr tips and I get 260fps. I think thats ok but whats everyone else shooting?

[ 09-04-2003, 05:57: Message edited by: DickPal ]

For Hunting I use a PSE Infinity set at 75lbs and use 2315 XX78 Superslams with Muzzy 125s. The arrow length is 27 inches and I balance them neutral on FOC. My release aid is a Three finger type with a rotating head. I do not use any string silencers because I just do not believe in them. My sights are what ever I happen to like at any given time. I try to keep my speeds at 270 fps because I found that MY arrows get squirrelly at speeds above 273 fps.

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I am shooting a Bow Tech Extreme VFT with a 70 Lb draw shooting a 388gr arrow and it Chronos at 310.
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Dick, my hunting bows all shoot around 230 fps to 250 fps. with a 65# draw weight. Been hunting with a PSE Durango Lighting Cam bow, for about 3 or 4 years. Personally I prefer two cam bows for target shooting. But I must admit the smooth draw, letoff, and quietness of the Durango One-Cam has kind of spoiled me as far as a hunting bow goes. The Durango shooting around 235 fps, with 65# draw weight and 28" xx78 2314 XX78 Superslams, tipped with a 165 grain Simmons Landshark. The Durango seems to handle the 1 1/2 cut Landshark well, as the setup is deadly accurate. No retractable blades for me, the same 12 Landsharks has whacked them, and stacked them, for the last ten years. Different bows same Broadheads.

[ 09-05-2003, 06:35: Message edited by: ChoPPeR ]

I'm shooting a BowTech VFT Samson at 100lbs draw , shooting PSE Carbon force Extreme 400 arrows with 3gr per inch weight tubes , I shoot 4 blade Rocket Sidewinders for hogs and other big tough animals and the Rocket 4 blade Hammerhead for deer.
My arrows are right at the limit of being 5gr per lb draw weight. Their getting launched at the 330fps range. I don't have any problems with poor arrow flight , but the faster speed does magnify your mistakes greatly.
My bow shoots up and past my expectations , its alot quieter than I expected and has very little hand shock.

I shoot a Darton Rampage. It is 30" draw, 28.75" arrow length. Arrows are CX300 with 100 grain broadhead at 390 grains. Bow is set (right now) for 64#. Rest is a NAP 4000 drop away. Chronied 20 arrows about a month ago at 265 fps, with a range of 264 to 266. I expect to be shooting at 68# in the last few weeks before the season, and expect to gain about 10-15 fps.

My complete setup is:

Darton Rampage 64#, 30" draw
NAP 4000 drop away rest
HHA Optimizer 5000 sight
Winners Choice strings and cables
Sims Modular Stabilizer
Sims string leaches
Peep sight
CX300 arrows with 100 grain Wasp Jackhammer SST mechanical broadhead

Works for me!

Joe

jfk -
That is a great setup. I love the way the Darton shoots. I have a hurricane that is a dual cam that breaks at 60# and with a 2315 will clock at 257fps. I leave it on the wall now except the occasional trip to the back yard .
Good hunting

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I have an older PSE Gamesport set at 58 lbs. using
2413 xx75 at 31.5" with a 30.5" draw and 125grain
points total arrow weight is around 450gr. These
shoot very good groups out to 30 yards (2-3") but
chronographed only 207 fps average. I am thinking
of dropping back to 100 grain points and broadheads and see if I get any better speed. I used to shoot a overdraw but having those razor
blades behind my left hand always made me nervous
so I switched to full length shafts. The bow is
very quiet and I don't want to switch to the newer
shorter bows just yet. 207 fps seems really slow
but they penetrate about 7-10" through the hard
foam target I use. Does anyone else shoot this
slow with good accuracy? BLR7

BLR7; I read a study years ago about, if more animals were getting wounded with arrows, and if so why. It was some of the driest and longest reading that I can imagine. However it was very interesting and one thing was kinetec energy for penitration. They took a bunch of dead animals and autopsied them and also shot some of them again at different angles, and bones for their study. But they had me ready to throw away my arrows for heavier ones and my heads for fixed blades, but another friend said don't fix it if it ain't broke so I stayed with the lighter setup till now. Anyway the study showed heavey arrows and fixed blade broadheads had better penitration and a far greater percentage for kills than anything else when a bone was contacted on entry. The friend that gave me the article shoots a recurve and I have seen his heavey wooden shafts with (140-150gr)Zwickey heads go through a 200# whitetail. If you are shooting well I say "why fix it if it ain't broke'! You could drive yourself nuts tring to keep up with all the new tech! Just hunt well!

I'm comfortable with the slow setup so I won't
change this close to season and it ain't broke
yet so I'll just plod along and see what happens.
Not to steal the thread here but I wonder if a
pass through does as much damage as a retained arrow with the blade moving around inside the
animal with every move the animal makes. I read
somewhere that the Apache Indians could ride into a herd of buffalo and shoot a wooden arrow through
the chest of a cow and penetrate her calf running beside her killing both animals. If they
could do that with a flint tipped shaft, I can surely kill a deer at 25 yards with razor sharp
metal broadheads. Well anyhow I'm gonna try this
weekend and maybe I'll get lucky!BLR7(T.C.S.)

I always say (in jest)I'd rather be lucky than good and it sounds like most of your luck is needed before you pull back your bow. You know, just having everything be right when and if he comes. After that I bet your are plenty good! Good luck this weekend!

I usually clock my bow at around 4:45 PM to somewhere around 5:45PM.

BLR7,
I too am shooting around 207 - 210 with an older Onieda Eagle pulling 62# shooting 30 inch 2413's with 130 grain Muzzy 4 blade. I too get GREAT penetration and a super quite bow.
I also am a believer that if it ain't broke don't fix it.

My 70# recurve pushes a 585gr. arrow 203 fps. That gives me an arrow that is flying flat @20 yrds. with plenty of energy to get through some prety big critters.

An important point to consider is what energy your arrow has when it hits the animal vs. what it has when it leaves your bow. A heavy arrow will retain more energy and it WILL be more effective. That will hold true for all bows.

You might find it interesting to crono your arrows right of the bow and compare that to a reading @ 20 (or what ever range you would hunt at). You might be suprized how much energy a light arrow from a speed bow looses in flight.

A game animal doesn't really care how fast the arrow was flying that kill him.

All good points. Speed is a vastly overrated asset for a bow. I would take an accurate, slow shooting bow over an unforgiving speed bow anyday. I hope to get a traditional bow for next season.

I shoot a Mathews Ultra Max that is set up for hunting. I am getting 276 FPS out of it through a chrony. I shoot Goldtip 5575s and 100 grain Thunderheads. It has accounted for 24 whitetails so far including 2 P&Y bucks (134 &155). It has also taken a P&Y bull elk out west.

Iron Buck, I too would take the more forgiving bow over the short brace speed demon. My Mathews Legacy is at 67/68# and shooting 270 give or take a few feet/sec. Thats plenty for me. I used to believe that you needed a bow shooting 300+ and mt PSE Inferno Maxis did all of that but wasnt as shooter friendly as my Legacy.

I have to agree with some of you and would take a slower bow with heavy arrows any day over a light arrow going fast. If you hunt from a tree, you want a hole on the other side of the deer. An arrow sticking halfway in with a high hit is almost always lost unless you see it fall. No blood trail. A pass through will give two holes for blood to pour from so why plug the hole with an arrow?