Prepper Compound Bow Spec

[bigpaul]

I was wondering about buying a prod on Ebay and putting it on the end of an air rifle stock, not sure how to set up a trigger though.

[Talon]

[NorthernRaider]

[Steve]

As far as power,to me 35/40lb is more than enough to get a pass-through on our indigenous species (four legged or two)once your bow is capable of a pass through more power just means further to walk to retrieve your arrow

That's one way of looking at it, although my view is that a more powerful bow can push a larger broadhead through. Big broadheads mean big wounds, which means a bigger blood trail and less walking.

[bigpaul]

That's one way of looking at it, although my view is that a more powerful bow can push a larger broadhead through. Big broadheads mean big wounds, which means a bigger blood trail and less walking.

my horse bow is a copy of an American native bow and puts out a 40 LB draw, believe me that's enough to pull back on such a short bow.

[Tartar Horde]

A 45-50lb Bow will take any animal in the UK, including Beef cattle etc. The plains Indians took Buffalo with such bows, and the Woodland tribes regularly hunted Moose with bows of this strength. Talking about "knock down" power in relation to bows is a little misleading as Arrows with broadheads don't "dump" energy into a target as does a Bullet causing Hydraulic shock. The only way you will drop an animal in its tracks with a Bow is to hit it either in the Spine, the Heart, or any other Blood vessel that will cause immediate loss of blood pressure and thus death. Even if the animal is hit through both lungs which is a lethal shot the game will not just fall down, it will tend to run off until the loss of blood pressure causes unconsciousness.

[Talon]

That's one way of looking at it, although my view is that a more powerful bow can push a larger broadhead through. Big broadheads mean big wounds, which means a bigger blood trail and less walking.

Yup you could push a larger broadhead,though if you're using a bigger broadhead you would have to increase the size of your fletchings to help reduce the planing effect a larger broadhead may have the tendency to do.
This will increase drag and slow down the arrow to some degree.A smaller broadhead can use a smaller fletching and still get good penetration without sacrificing too much speed,though a heavier slower arrow fired from a heavier poundage bow will still cut through anything we're going to encounter with ease.


There's no one answer to the op's question as everyones different with different idea's on their ideal set up .
I'm looking into getting a 45lb recurve and taking more time to practice with it.The problem is finding somewhere with enough space to comfortably practice.

[Steve]

A 45-50lb Bow will take any animal in the UK, including Beef cattle etc. The plains Indians took Buffalo with such bows, and the Woodland tribes regularly hunted Moose with bows of this strength. Talking about "knock down" power in relation to bows is a little misleading as Arrows with broadheads don't "dump" energy into a target as does a Bullet causing Hydraulic shock. The only way you will drop an animal in its tracks with a Bow is to hit it either in the Spine, the Heart, or any other Blood vessel that will cause immediate loss of blood pressure and thus death. Even if the animal is hit through both lungs which is a lethal shot the game will not just fall down, it will tend to run off until the loss of blood pressure causes unconsciousness.

The difference is that we won't be riding alongside a beef cow, en masse, firing multiple arrows at it. I know about killing by blood loss, standard deer stalking practice is to allow 15 minutes before following up a blood trail, to allow the deer to lay up and bleed out.

[NorthernRaider]

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The difference is that we won't be riding alongside a beef cow, en masse, firing multiple arrows at it. I know about killing by blood loss, standard deer stalking practice is to allow 15 minutes before following up a blood trail, to allow the deer to lay up and bleed out.

Dont bet money on that Steve