Arrow Weight, Grains Per Pound?

[BSeals71]

Just curious to see what you guys are shooting.
Mainly for deer, elk & bear.

Right now I'm trying to stay around (or above) 6 grains per pound building a new arrow.
Shooting 70 lbs = 420 gr arrow.

 

[El Gavilan]

I shoot 390 grain gold tips out of my 70 lb matrix running at 297 fps and have killed a cow elk with no issues the past 2 years. Also worked on a nice white-tailed deer and a javelina. Took the same arrows to Africa 3 years ago shooting a 70 lb PSE Evo running out at 310 fps with Hellrazor broadheads and got pass throughs on everything except for a kudu that I hit on the shoulder blade.

Mike

 

[justin davis]

I shoot 470 grain arrows out of 70 and 80 lb bows

 

[PMcGee]

442 gr. 70lbs

 

[_Nick_]

475, 70lbs. Going to move up to ~500 here pretty soon. Love how quiet heavier arrows are. Also love the penetration.

 

[charvey9]

72lbs, 456grains. Works out to 6.33 gr/lb.

 

[weaver]

480gr out off a 67lb bow

 

[Craig Van Arsdale]

72 lbs and 511gr my other bow is 72 and 485gr

 

[MattB]

Personally, I do not think grains/# is the right way to look at it. There is evidence that the absolute arrow weight regardless of poundage correlates to improved penetration, so I prefer not to drop my arrow weight below 440 grs. regardless of poundage. There is nothing magic about that weight, but I think the salient point is that even if I was shooting 50# or 55# that I wouldn't pick my arrow components based on an arbitrary grs./# ratio but rather would focus on keeping it at least 400 grs.

 

[doverpack12]

6 grains per pound with 14-15% front of center with a smaller diameter arrow than standard .246 ID carbon.

 

[5MilesBack]

A little over 7GPP.

 

[JG358]

Current set up is 6.49GPP.

 

[Screamrider]

434 grains at 72 lbs, so just over 6 grains/lb. 14.9 % FOC

 

[HuntHarder]

470gr arrow @ 70lbs. My Chill spits em out @ 282 FPS which IMO is a perfect speed/ weight ratio. I love that in this thread, more people than not are shooting arrows 430gr and up. Not everyone in the archery world is still wrapped up in the, " if your bow doesn't shoot 300 FPS +, it sucks".

 

[5MilesBack]

I love that in this thread, more people than not are shooting arrows 430gr and up. Not everyone in the archery world is still wrapped up in the, " if your bow doesn't shoot 300 FPS +, it sucks".

I'm hoping that when I get my PSE Freak set up that it will be shooting my 500gr'ers over 300fps, then I can turn the bow down a little.

 

[Bonedalien]

My arrows came in at 500gr this year too. Shooting 65lbs.