Ok, there have been a few threads over the years about game taken with lightweight bows, so, in the interests of equality  , how about showing your heavyweight bows and what you have put on the ground with them. Broadhead used and total arrow weight might be interesting too.

This isn't a heavy vs light slinging match, that has been, and will continue to be, hashed out for ever, and I think most of us are pretty much over that . It's simply a show us what your heavy bow has put down for you.

For the sake of this thread, let's call a heavy bow something that is say 65lb and up.

I'll start the ball rolling with this chunky little boar, taken at 13 yards with my 75lb Blackwidow longbow, Red Balau hardwood shafts and Grizzly Kodiak broadheads. Arrow weight a fuzz over 950 grains.

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Moderators, if this has all been done before, please feel free to delete this.

Best
Lex

My best whitetail. Shot in 1990 with a 69# Groves, 2219 shaft and Bohning  Blazer bh. PY score, 152 5/8. State record at the time.

This was a 70# Jim Brackebenbury Shadow using bamboo shaft and bone point.

Don't know how to post pix, but shot an Alaskan Yukon moose quite a few years ago with a 66# Robertson longbow (Phew, just made the minimum.) and 725 grain birch arrows tipped with a Zwickey 4-blade Delta broadhead.

I've taken one whitetail buck, muley buck, two whitetail does, and 2 turkeys with a 71lbs Schafer Silvertip recurve. I was shooting Heritage 350's with either a 200gr. three blade VPA or a 190gr. Simmons Treeshark. Arrow weight came in at around 590-600grs, and the bow was shooting them at 198fps. The two turkeys are displayed in my avatar picture. It was a two for one shot kill. The were standing shoulder to shoulder and my arrow went clean through one and stuck 10 inches into the other one.

I've since dropped to 50-54lbs bows in an effort to save my shoulders when I get older.

Here's some in the 70# range.  I really like that 65-70# draw weight.
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A couple of Hawai'ian boars with 69# Green Mountain Stingray LB
Forgewood shafts and Journeyman  and Hunter's Head BHs

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Good stuff there folks, keep them coming.

Lex

70# Paul Bunyan model 300
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82# Morrison ILF.  Taken a few more hogs and a couple deer with this bow, but lost the pics when my phone died.

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Border hex 6.5 68# at my draw

RER the Vital 66#

Fedora Xtrem 65#

John Strunk osage bow, 72#@ 26", cedar shaft, 200gr Timberwolf broadhead



Great Northern Bush bow, 75#@ 28", cedar shaft, 200gr Timberwolf broadhead

Ron... was the Timberwolf Glenn Parker's broadhead?

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This one was a test... it worked.

This picture represents the 102 ground squirrels I shot one day with my 82# Hill Big Five.

Between my buddy and I we killed 200 and something squirrels that day. These were the ones we could stand to touch by the end of the day. 

Bear Kodiak 75#\

70# Hoyt Pro Hunter Special


73# Asbell Bighorn