Draw Weight

[skinner]

#4024

Hello Folks, I’m kinda new at this computer stuff. I’d like some opinions please. I’ve recently switched over to Traditional equipt. from a compound for game hunting. I’ve bowfished for years with a recurve. I’m getting older now and am having trouble managing a new #50 PSE longbow. It’s the worst bow I’ve ever shot. I’m thinking about getting a new recurve at 45#. Is #45 enough bow for whitetails?
(P.S.) I’ll make somebody a heck of a deal on the longbow.

[Frank V]

#26206

Skinner, I think with a properly set up bow & arrows matched to it with scary sharp broadheads a 45 pound bow will be fine for Whitetails. Frank

[crittergitter]

#26386

45 pounds i have read many times is enough to kill any game animal in north america good luck shoot strait

[JDinCO]

#27351

I was in the same boat as you, used a 45# until my form was good then moved back up to 55#.

[longhunter]

#29962

If 45#s allows you to place a sharp broadhead in the vitals of a deer then it is enough bow. Arrow placement is more important then poundage. You might try as heavy an arrow as you can shoot accuratly to increase penetration. Good hunting

[Raider2000]

#30936

A 45# bow with some good cut on contact broadheads will cleanly take a deer sized animal as long as the shooter does their part, I’d try to make my arrows in the 450 grain range to optimize a quiet shot but still have enough oomph to reach out there, good luck to ya my friend.

I’m lingering around the 50-52# range with my hunting recurve & I figure that by the time season opens for me I’ll have the confidence in my self to take it out to the deer woods this year.

[alby301]

#32918

skinner, 45# is enough to take a whitetail. like it was said earlier as long as the arrow is tuned to the bow. i hunt with a vintage bear grizzly that is 58 inches long and 45#. i have it set up to shoot easton legacy 2016 arrows with 100 grain muzzy phantom broadheads. before i start to get tired and the groups spread out, i’m shooting 3 inch groups at 20 yards. hopes this helps with arrow selection for you. good luck.

[jamesdonahue]

#32952

I think too many people tend to get over bowed,-in the past, me included. Took me a long time to learn. A fiend that I hunt with in the Blue Ridge Mtns , an excellent hunter but not a bow hunter has shot/hunted bow seasons with me because a traditional bow is all I hunt with. I had given him some of my old bows and he never shot anything nor kept much interest in practicing. When I came across a 48# recurve which I gave him, the first year he shot 5 deer and a turkey with it. I had him over bowed and he enjoys the new bow and has proven that he can shoot it well. As far as the 45# draw weight- a kid in the next town was sat down in a creek bottom with a 25# bow and given one “real arrow” while his father and the rest of the guys went deep into the woods for some “real” hunting. When they came back late morning to pick him up , to their surprise he had a massive 6 point waiting for them.

[Troy Warner]

#34707

I watched a freind put an arrow into a cow elk at 20-25 yrds and the elk went down with in 50 yrds. he was shooting a 40# bow at 27″ 125 grn braod head. if your placement is right and the arrow matched to the bow, 45#’s will be enough for elk, deer, turkey, and what ever else you want to hunt in the USA.

[JDinCO]

#34759

I have seen way too many guys that think you need the heaviest bow possible. There is a reason that Colorado’s minimum draw weight is 35#.

[Frank V]

#35040

In the 60s when I started I used a 48lb Bear Kodiak Hunter, none of us thought we were underbowed at 45-50lbs. Frank

[Tj Craig]

#8236

Men,
Personally I think 55# should be the minimum, but thats just my opinion.
Tj

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