roosiebull
WKR
My first 60# bow was a rytera alien x I got in 09’ it was a new bow and high demand, and I could only find one in 60#
Back then I shot 380gr arrows and muzzy 3 blades, and my tuning consisted of sighting in for broadheads in August and only shooting them, and changing blades before season… makes me cringe now, but I had 7 years that I didn’t blood trail a single bull, either watched or heard them die, and I used that bow for 5 of those years.
Shot a blacktail every year I used it too, and a couple huge bear, and never had any sort of marginal results, it killed the heck out of everything
I have spent time in the weeds with arrow builds, really heavy, over 25% foc, etc but have circled back to the middle ground, 475-550gr arrow depending on the bow, and don’t care about foc, whatever it is will be enough, I always have at least 175gr up front, and don’t worry about it
Shooting over 50# for elk, arrow builds don’t need much thought, make sure you have good arrow flight, and it will work fine on the biggest Roosevelt bull in the woods.. whatever makes sense to the hunter will be fine, from light and fast to heavy and slow and everything between, and I can confidently say that because I used to use a horrible setup with zero drama… light arrow, under 65# draw, and an untuned bow, I didn’t know better, and the big coast bulls never knew any better.
I think you would almost have to try to build a problematic arrow these days… modern bows are awesome, and there are a ton of tuning resources, no reason to have poor arrow flight, and it doesn’t take much to kill an elk very handily
My other sis in law, probably 10 yrs ago killed a big roosie bull with an old Hoyt cybertec at 25” draw right at 50#, super slow bow, 410gr arrow with a montec, that bull literally took 2 steps and tipped over dead, probably not great arrow flight relatively
We archery hunters have a way of figuring out solutions for problems that don’t exist. In reality, it’s caveman stuff with modern tools
I gave my original alien x to my father in law, and that bow is dialed back to 50# and is still killing stuff every year, he killed another elk with it this year, with no name bimart broadheads
he shot the elk twice and both heads shed blades… I was like why in the heck are you using these damn things!!?? I gave him 2 dozen good broadheads last year, mostly kudus, he said he was saving them, hahaI pointed out why you don’t use junk heads and that night he was showing me his quiver full of sharp kudus… just goes to show what you can get away with… hard to get worse than that
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