What's the best bear archery bow

Question

whats the most powerful & fastest bear compound bow?

Answer 1

All of them -- and none of them. Yes, I AM serious.

Consider: When any bow is tested for "power" and "speed" against another bow, it is usually done with ONE specific type/version arrow. Use a heavy arrow, and the bow can be "powerful" because it sends the arrow through a 2x4 -- but the same bow is "slow" because that heavy arrow leaves the bow at a "slow" speed; conversely, the bow can be "weak" when using a super-light arrow (not enough energy to pierce a thin paper-back book), but super-fast (and often noisy) because the arrow is super-light.

There are very few bows of any type which are both "powerful" and "fast" while using ALL types/versions of arrows.

And to anyone who says/thinks/believes that 70 or more pounds of draw are "required" for bears and other 'large game" (elk, moose...kudu)...or that only "super-fast-and-powerful" compound bows can do the job: While using a 58 lb draw Robertson Prairie Falcon recurve, Greg Munther of Montana (USA) killed an Alaskan bull moose, an animal which happens to be the same size as (if not larger than) the average black bear (and every bit as mean and nasty when "riled up"); read the account, if you can, in the Aug/Sep 2005 issue (Vol 17, No 4) of Traditional Bowhunter Magazine.

For an excellent "paper" related to what you are asking about, read Dr. Ed Ashby's research on arrow/broadhead lethality at the URL listed below. It really is an eye-opener. Also, if you can, read G. Fred Asbell's article on bow weight in the Dec 2004/Jan 2005 issue (Vol 16, No 6) of Traditional Bowhunter Magazine; while it is mainly about recurves and longbows, Mr. Asbell makes some extremely valid points about "power and speed" versus accuracy.

I'm not saying that one kind of bow is "better" than any other kind of bow (or that one kind of arrow is "better' than all others), just that "power" and "speed" mean absolutely nothing if the arrow is not able to do its job. A fast miss is still a miss -- and poor penetration too often results in what anti-hunters love to scream about...Cruel wounding and "lost" animals.

Answer 2

Any fred bear bow that shoots 70lbs or more, A bow is a bow it doesn't matter!*

Answer 3

you gotta be sick to kill a bear with a bow

Answer 4

i shoot a parker xp with 58 lbs, and it will shoot clean through a black bear assuming you have the right shot placement

its a mathews knockoff