Long Draw Arrow Build...Off the charts! Literally

[MattB]

Not sure of how your spine plays out, but adding draw weight could potentially out-tax your arrow spine and result in arrow flight problems with bradheads.

 

[doc holiday13]

More draw weight means more speed (which is a good thing), but accuracy is the most important factor. If 70# is a struggle and negatively affects your accuracy, stick with 60#. If not, go for it. Mathews' Switchweight mods allow you to try out a wide range of draw weights fairly cheaply.

If you lighten your arrows to around 520 gr, you should get around 265 fps at 33.5"/60#, which is plenty for whatever you want to hunt.

He could probably go as light as a 300 spine at 60# draw so he could be at 520 taw with a 150g broadhead or 470 with a 100g. Which the lighter setup would get him about 12-15 fps if he's wanting the magic 280 fps

 

[Beendare]

Long draw here.

What you need to know if you don’t already;

Big energy advantage to long draw…but we can have shaft problems with weak arrow spine with too much draw weight or too much tip weight.

60# is plenty. You make up for it with DL.

Shoot as stiff of a shaft as you can get-260’s are good.

Keep your tip weight to std inserts…or not much more and you will have no problems tuning with BHs. Don’t worry about FOC or even arrow weight. Shoot a 9 GPI shaft minimum for better durability.