arrow weight for elk

[skinner biscuit]

#7331

What arrow weight do you use for elk?

[T Downing]

#60647

500 grain douglas fir shafts topped off with 200g Tuffheads. Total weight: 700g.

[David Petersen]

#63579

Carbons (with 225 Tuffheads and brass inserts) 780 grains

Woodies (sitka spruce with 300 Tuffheads) about 800 grains

[wideangle]

#63602

140 grain Magnus 2 blade. I can get these sooo sharp!

[Jason Wesbrock]

#63952

I shot through both my elk and moose with 500-grain total weight arrows.

[Buzzard]

#9680

I mount my MA3’s on lodgepole pine shafts for a total weight of around 575gr ave. 64# longbow.

[Ireland]

#9755

skinner biscuit wrote: What arrow weight do you use for elk?

Skinner:

My arrow weight is 670 grains. I would NEVER GO BELOW 650 grains for an elk. There are compound bow shooters out there shooting and killing elk with arrow weights around 400 grains. Why take a chance on LUCK… Put a Tuffhead up front and keep the weight above 650 and you have a killing machine…

Ireland

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#9943

Gold Tip Ultralight Entrada 300

31.5 inches from groove to end of carbon

— 300 gr. TuffHead

— 200 gr. brass adapter/combo

— 36 gr. 3” external footing

— 13 gr. 1” external footing

3 — 3” rocket fletching

830 grains and 33.3 % Ultra-EFOC

OR

Gold Tip Ultralight Entrada 300

30 inches from groove to end of carbon

+1/8” for aluminum insert

+7/8” for 220 gr. adapter

31 inches from groove to back of broadhead

— 300 gr. TuffHead

— 220 gr. broadhead adapter

— 15 gr. aluminum insert

— 36 gr. 3” external footing

— 13 gr. 1” external footing

3 — 3” rocket fletching

866 grains and 36.25 % Ultra-EFOC

[sagebrush]

#10666

I’m still shooting woods but they weigh a total of 740 grains with the tip in place. I always use two bladed heads. The last couple of years I have been shooting single beveled heads. I have noticed the improved penetration. I am now looking at the efoc thing. When hunting elk I always want penetration over large, wide heads. There are times when you need the penetration. Usually due to an animal moving at the shot or some other unplanned for problem. Gary

[Troy Breeding]

#11521

Looks like the overwelming majorty see it the same as I do. I’d never suggest hunting anything bigger than small game with an arrow under 650grs.

I heard one fellow say deer are nothing more than a bag of shaving cream with a few tinker toys and a couple of ball joints inside.:D

Of course this fellow lives in the south where the deer are smaller. After four years in MO and now two years in OH, I can tell you the deer in MO and around here look like they grew up on steroids.:shock:

Troy

[Ireland]

#12086

Troy Breeding wrote: Looks like the overwelming majorty see it the same as I do. I’d never suggest hunting anything bigger than small game with an arrow under 650grs.

I heard one fellow say deer are nothing more than a bag of shaving cream with a few tinker toys and a couple of ball joints inside.:D

Of course this fellow lives in the south where the deer are smaller. After four years in MO and now two years in OH, I can tell you the deer in MO and around here look like they grew up on steroids.:shock:

Troy

“Deer are nothing more than a bag of shaving cream…” Where are they hunting and what are they hunting? I need to bring them to Iowa to see some real whitetails. With a national wounding rate of over 50%, I get real sick when I hear statements like this…

Ireland

[newbreedarcher]

#12103

I hear that Troy! I used to have an uncle that lived next the Indiana border. We used to come home with some HUGE deer from that area:D

[Troy Breeding]

#12667

Having been born and raised in the south (AL, Heart of Dixie) I can tell you the deer down there are small. I naver had problems with penetration on those small deer even when I used light weight arrows.

After taking several big deer in MO I thought I had found the glory land.

Now that I’m in OH I can tell you mid-west and northern deer could eat one of the southern deer and still be hungery.:D

Troy

[KLShotkoski]

#17732

I like to stay above 580 to 620. I shoot a 61# Fox.

[Bruce Smithhammer]

#18287

600 gr. w/24% FOC.

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