Top Bow Setups and Arrow Choices for This Year: Share Your Recommendations!

Full disclosure I ditched the heavy arrow thing this year

Mathews, Spot gods Speed Eddie XL triple stack, victory carbon bows 450gr. Works on Muley’s and Elk. Annihilator or Tooth of the Arrow Broadheads.

@Tony Spott Hogg

Nice!.Got 300 spline a 475 gr 31” draw Mathew’s 70lb black gold dial trac for pig whitetail., and sika

Kinda got married to 4mm axis, I like them enough

In for a penny in for a pound

I’m shootin a 2023 PSE embark. 450 grain Air strike arrows

Nice arrows might look at some vice carbon express sd reds

I'm running heavy (600gn) on a 46@ 26.5" draw longbow for pigs. Wanted to soak up all the energy I could from my setup, but am considering a 550gn build as well. SB two blade BH.

The philosophy with long bow is solid

Hopefully alls well with you and your family out Hawaii way🙏

Still running a hoyt hyperforce one more year. 70lb, 600 grain arrow with single bevel. Oddly enough I find myself mostly experiencing short quartering too shots, I always wish for a broadside but apparently that’s not real life for me here in Michigan. So my setup for me has increased my statistics of what I experienced most of the time. Maybe this year I’ll get a broadside shot, I’m due haha

I had a 80lb Hoyt crx, 650 with grizzly stick 200 grain samurai tuned and had a few good kills and a few major failure on front quarter shots on hog deer alike, I blame it largely on my over confidence in the system, but when it worked it was devastating

I’ve lost more animals to that samurai than I’ve killed unfortunately

@A.T Thank you. No fires on my island, but things are pretty rough on Maui.

@A.T Yup, I avoid quartering-to no matter my setup, even if it means giving up a shot.

@A.T what is causing the failure? Scapula?

The t on the scapula, , deer, and the hog shield twice

I also feel like the arrows velocity was causing a lack of penetration, large pin gaps hurting accuracy, just the whole deal was holding me back , nothing against the guys that are having good results with it , just not for me , I set that bow aside and built out something’ much more accurate and forgiving

I still have testing to do at 550 and 525 grain. My accuracy with the 600 is very consistent. But I do believe a bow setup has a perfect sweet spot for the weight. Like draw weight, draw length and power band of the bow. Where the efficiency is best, whether 600 is it or something else.

Absolutely.

Crossbow time for this older man

I hear that ,! I hope I’m able to do this as long as I can

40lb pull back 27” draw matthews radik

For whitetail, pigs, and squirrels sometimes😂