>82: I shoot an older Mathews
>Switchback XT with BlackGold customized
>6pin sight...dialed in out to
>70yds....FMJ's 340 at 460gr....2in Blazers
>...secret is shot placement as
>you had stated....heavy ARROW and
>modern cut on contact smaller
>broadheads ....easy to group out
>to seventy yards with my
>G-5 Strikers and there are
>other smaller modern heads out
>there......shoot those type arrows out
>of either bow.....it's not about
>needing newer faster bows....it's about
>that shot placement and good
>equipment....these companies want everyone to
>get caught up in all
>their speed type.....it's not the
>bow it's the guy drawing
>that string and plenty of
>practice like close to hunting
>season 60 arrows a day
>plus practicing in all kinds
>of weather conditions....wind, rain, that's
>a wake up call....everyone shoots
>in nice conditions....shoot in 20-30mph
>winds to know 8 inches
>wind deflection at 50yds.
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Hmmmmmm, ok so this aint going in the direction I was hoping. This is me asking about the difference in lethality ranges between older and newer bows. For example, this year I took an elk that was at 55 yards and it was a clean pass through and he went about 60 yards after the shot. I have no confidence that this older bow would get a pass through at that distance. So I am curious as to a bow like this where would you draw your limit on distance? Trophy hunter, you mention a lot of good things, but I think those are meant for someone else. This is a back up bow I am talking about. Its for in case something catastrophic happens to my primary bow that I can still stay out and hunt. I have no intentions of practicing as much with it as I do with my primary bow. And I am not talking about differences of 20-30 fps that the marketing makes a big deal about as you mention. I am probably talking about a comparable difference of 300 win mag and a 30-30.
I am thinking that I am probably gonna pull a few pins off the sight and make the limits on it 40 yards considering that I am not gonna practice as much as my primary and just too many unknown X factors