40# - 45# Bow Harvest Pics?

[LITTLEBIGMAN]

2014. 43 lb widow

 

[LITTLEBIGMAN]

2013   44 lb bobcat

[LITTLEBIGMAN]

2013  44 lb bobcat

[LITTLEBIGMAN]

2012 43 lb widow

[LITTLEBIGMAN]

2012 43 Widow

[locohunter]

What do you all say on the subject of 2 blade versus a 2 blade with bleeders?  Thinking about Magnus 125s with bleeder blades or a solid 2 blade.   I hope to submit my first big game trad animal this year!  The only reason to wish for a short summer.

[TxAg]

Bleeders are awesome

[tracker12]

Glad I looked back at this thread.  I have been shooting a 43# RER, 43# Big River and 45# bear Kodiak. My buddies kept telling me I needed to get something in the 5-# range cause I can handle it.  I ordered a Leon Stewart Slammer at 45# a month or so ago. I let my buddies convince me to change it to 50-51#.  Well yesterday after shooting awhile with a 3D course with a 50# Slammer I came home to read thru this thread again and realized there was no reason for what I hunt that I needed more than 45#.  Called Leon back today and changed my order.  Interestingly Leon said that 45# would be a lot more fun to shoot on the 3D course and more than enough to kill anything I am after.  He said he was going to try to talk me out of the change the last time but ttys to avoid telling people what they want.  Probably good advice.

[59Alaskan]

This thread is just plain cool.  There's likely a reason the most popular bow weight was around 45# for years.  

Great pictures and phenomenal accomplishments.

Yeah, I'd enjoy looking at trad bow harvests no matter the weight on the bow though

[aim small...release]

This is my favorite thread on this whole site thanks for shareing all your success

[tracker12]

45# Bear Kodiak

[Bobby Urban]

45@25 56" Jess Stuart Rocky Mountain Recurve reproduction

[aim small...release]

nice shot on that buck!

[tippit]

I've shot 40-45# for the past 5 years.  Knowing those bows don't have as much punch as a 55-60# bow, I've always used a two blade broadhead without any problems.  Now the cool thing this year is with Bill Dunn's new three blade broadhead, I feel very confidant that it will take anything I'm after with 45# or less bow and produce a better tracking trail...tippit

Couple of 2014 spring turkeys from my ILF Morrison Gen3 metal riser/Dryad Epic 42# recurve limbs...tippit

Zach & I with Jakes the same day...

 

Very nice Tom...

 

 

[Killdeer]

How did I miss this?



Jeffrey Mighty-Mag Classic, 47@28",  ash arrow shaft and stone point. I was drawing 26 or 27".

For newcomers, Owen Jeffrey designed the Kodiak Magnum for Bear Archery.

Killdeer  

[JEFF B]

nice one Girl          just love the stone point

[Kent57]

What a great form, after my rotarcuff surgery I was only able to pull about 45 or so and was thing my big game hunting was over, boy was I wrong. Thanks for the encouragement.

[Dave Paradowski]

I like this post. I am seventy-two yrs old and don't have the upper body strength that I used to have and I don't exercise as much as I probably should. I have various bows that range from 35# to 61#. I feel most comfortable with bows around 45#. This is what I will probably hunt with this fall unless I can gain a few more pounds and still shoot accurately....Dave

[Hojo]

From this last November.  

41# 1966 Bear Grizzly.
WW broadhead with 250 gr. total up front.

Hunting with my brother and a buddy on an annual bowhunting trip to Michigan (our 15th year).  Three days left in the hunt, and I was out at first light in a small white oak that sits at the edge of a swamp / swail that divides some open ground and a small wood lot.  Stand is not more than 10' off the ground, and the branches on the oak afford great concealment.  

Not 5 minutes on stand, and this deer came in from the open ground on the swamp side of me.  I shot him through the lungs at approx 12 yards.  

He ran in a loop of about 40 yards that ended on the far edge of a thicket.  I couldn't see him, but I knew that he had stopped running.  After about 30 seconds of silence, I heard him bound twice.  Then heard him crash.  Yeehaw!

As you can tell from my smile, I was pretty proud of this buck.  I'd had a couple selfbow deer kills (two of them with bows in the low 40#'s), but this was my first with a recurve in my third year of trying one.  Can't wait for the 2014 hunt!

[rmkm70]

40# @ 28 Bear Montana.  135gr Eskilite broadhead.  CE heritage arrow.

5'11", 16 7/8 fall 2013 bear.