Zambia Bow Hunt !!

[Huntforever]

I leave for Zambia on my 1st elephant bow hunt!! I have been looking forward to this hunt for over 5 years and now the time has arrived. I’m getting gear ready and last minute shooting of my bows. I’ll be bringing 2 bows for this trip. One for the elephant, hippo or buffalo and the other for plaines game. This is my elephant setup shoot at 20,30,40 and 50.

 

[ftothfadd]

I would love to hear some more details about the setup. Bow? poundage? DL? Arrow weight? Broadhead? Speed?
And most importantly, best of luck.

 

[Mekaniks]

AWESOME! Looking forward to hearing all about it

 

[Oil & Dirt]

Looking forward to hearing more about your setup and hunt

 

[Wyit76]

Can't just wind a gear junkie up like that and not give any details! What does a bow set up for DG hunting look like especially for elephant!

 

[Tgood1]

All I can say is wow, and good
Luck

 

[kpoynter]

Awesome…
Tell us about your set up…
The archery shop by an old beach house of mine did Tom Miranda’s when he did his.
I seem to remember it was like 90 pounds shooting a 1000 grain heavy arrow with a solid two blade broad head

 

[BenKK]

Awesome! Can’t wait to read about this!

 

[dchum]

Let’s go Dude!

Gonna be awesome

 

[Frederik]

Following are you going to do a seperate post about the hunt or just continue with this one.
Happy travels and may the wind be blowing in your face all the time.

 

[Altitude sickness]

Good luck

 

[Huntforever]

Sorry about that lol

Hoyt RX9
30in draw at 83lbs

Axis 200 spine, Ethics Insert and collar 100g, Ironwill Double bivel single blade broadhead 250g.
Total 824g. I decided to go with the 824g for muiltple reasons.

Arrow 824g -240fps 105.3 KE .877M

Arrow 848g -236fps 105.3 KE. .888M

Arrow 872g -233fps 105.6 KE .901M

Arrow 922g -226fps 104.63 KE. .924M

 

[Altitude sickness]

Besides the numbers, it’s important that your
Arrow impacts the animal 100% straight. No flexing and with the nock completely behind the broadhead.

Your set up has higher KE but the heavier arrow in your chart has more
Momentum. Momentum is more important than KE.

 

[Huntforever]

Sorry about that lol

Hoyt RX9
30in draw at 83lbs

Axis 200 spine, Ethics Insert and collar 100g, Ironwill Double bivel single blade

Pt200g arrow 774g-247fps 105.4 KE. .848M

Pt252g Arrow 824g -240fps 105.3 KE .877M

Pt275g Arrow 848g -236fps 105.3 KE. .888M

Pt300g Arrow 872g -233fps 105.6 KE .901M

Pt350g Arrow 922g -226fps

104.63 KE. .924M

 

[Huntforever]

I’m going to start a live hunting report the day I leave for Africa Oct 23rd. I did a hunting report on my Zambia leopard hunt.

 

[Hunt anything]

Looking forward to it! Good luck

 

[Safari1]

Can’t wait..which GMA in Zambia?

 

[Mtn_Infantry]

Good Luck! Gonna be excitedly waiting to see and read your hunt report.

Who’s the PH and what area?

 

[Huntforever]

Besides the numbers, it’s important that your
Arrow impacts the animal 100% straight. No flexing and with the nock completely behind the broadhead.

Your set up has higher KE but the heavier arrow in your chart has more
Momentum. Momentum is more important than KE.

Sorry, Sickness but I don’t agree with the whole KE and Momentum debate but truthly I don’t want to have a large debate on this topic. Lol

We do agree on the arrow being tuned perfectly. I shot the different setups and the setup I chose tuned the best so that was another factor in my decision.

Unfortunately, if I hit a rib square in the middle it isn’t going to matter what i setup I’m using.

 

[Huntforever]

PH- Derick Staden
West Paukue