Yard Candy
Lil-Rokslider
Backstory: I am an adult onset hunter who has been hunting whitetail with crossbow and rifle for a few years now. I've always had an interest in archery and finally took the leap.
Storytime.
Knowing that the minimum recommended draw weight to hunt whitetail is 40#, when I got my recurve bow last Christmas I got it with 45# limbs. I had no experience with bows, so being a naive athletic guy I figured, "I use 45# dumbbells when I do rows at the gym, so a 45# draw is no big deal". Well after tinkering with the bow at Christmas I quickly realized I needed a lower draw weight to be able to learn this art properly.
So I ordered 30# limbs which are the lowest weight limbs available for my bow. Ahhhh... what I joy it was to shoot. I was able to comfortably draw, hold, learn, etc. I have been learning/practicing fairly regularly since Christmas 2020. I'm fortunate in that I have a large property so I can just step outside to shoot. I've been doing my best to shoot multiple times a week. When I started in December 2020 being able to hit my 30"x30" target at 5 yards was a success. Now, 4 months later, I've progressed to shooting fairly consistent groupings at 20 yards (shooting at a deer target, about 75% of the hits are in the lungs).
My goal is to learn on the 30# limbs (which I'm doing now) but hunt with the 45# limbs starting in September 2021 (6'ish months from now). What is the proper way for me to successfully do that? Can I simply start practicing with the 45# limbs when it gets closer to hunting season? Or is a 15# increase a good way to get hurt and this needs to be a gradual process?
If this needs to be a gradual process I can purchase 35# and 40# limbs so that I'll have a full set (30/35/40/45). Then I'd do something like every 2 months step up to the next weight? Just spit balling here, I'm certainly not the expert.
Storytime.
Knowing that the minimum recommended draw weight to hunt whitetail is 40#, when I got my recurve bow last Christmas I got it with 45# limbs. I had no experience with bows, so being a naive athletic guy I figured, "I use 45# dumbbells when I do rows at the gym, so a 45# draw is no big deal". Well after tinkering with the bow at Christmas I quickly realized I needed a lower draw weight to be able to learn this art properly.
So I ordered 30# limbs which are the lowest weight limbs available for my bow. Ahhhh... what I joy it was to shoot. I was able to comfortably draw, hold, learn, etc. I have been learning/practicing fairly regularly since Christmas 2020. I'm fortunate in that I have a large property so I can just step outside to shoot. I've been doing my best to shoot multiple times a week. When I started in December 2020 being able to hit my 30"x30" target at 5 yards was a success. Now, 4 months later, I've progressed to shooting fairly consistent groupings at 20 yards (shooting at a deer target, about 75% of the hits are in the lungs).
My goal is to learn on the 30# limbs (which I'm doing now) but hunt with the 45# limbs starting in September 2021 (6'ish months from now). What is the proper way for me to successfully do that? Can I simply start practicing with the 45# limbs when it gets closer to hunting season? Or is a 15# increase a good way to get hurt and this needs to be a gradual process?
If this needs to be a gradual process I can purchase 35# and 40# limbs so that I'll have a full set (30/35/40/45). Then I'd do something like every 2 months step up to the next weight? Just spit balling here, I'm certainly not the expert.