I'd hunt with it.
I just bought one a month or two ago.
It's 43#. But I draw 32".
From my limited research and knowledge is more about the arrow weight than speed. I was told you need to build an arrow that weighs 10 gpp grains per pound of draw weight.
My recurve arrows with 533, my long bike arrows weigh 803 without the lights nocks.

Both shoot right at 150 fps

 

Guys -

And the myths continue.
As long as 41# is legal in your state, it's more than enough for white tails.
A quick forum search here on on other trad forums will bring up a plethora of photos of "kills" with lighter.
If speed is what concerns you, odds are you can get the Lee to shoot as fast or faster than your other bows.
Most of his bows are just quick.

The arrow weight thing is also a bit of crock.
With stickbows, there have been as many "kills" with heavy slow arrows as there have with light fast(er) arrows.
Possibly more with the lighter arrows due to the bigger fudge factor in range estimation.

What people continue to forget these days, is that guys have been taking white tails for a long time, with lighter weight bows that were a lot less efficient than the stuff we have today.

Viper1 out.

 

Just wanting opinions. There is no wrong or right or myths. Just want to hear what people say and what others are shooting. Thanks

 

Just wanting opinions. There is no wrong or right or myths.

There are quite a few myth surrounding bow effectiveness, which all come from opinions being taken too far- or overzealous commercials trying to sell us stuff.

I hunt mostly with stuff around 45-50# lately, but would use 40# in a heartbeat. For me it just comes down to the set up. A well designed 40# bow will spit an arrow with around 30+ ft-lbs of KE. There are bows in the 50+# range, and even heavier if you include stuff like selfbows, that will only produce that much energy. I'd take the lighter, more efficient bow, over a heavier, less efficient one, especially matched to a well tuned, razor sharp broadhead arrow.

 

A whitetail at 15 yards being hit with a broadhead going 100 MPH ( in the right place) is plenty. That's what you have! My hunting bows range from 37'ish to 43.5 lbs.

 

Lots of posts on this subject. If you do a topic search you will find more reading material than you likely care to read.
Heavy arrows(well tuned), cut on contact two blade heads, and close shots will do the job for you.

 

I hunt with 45# setups and draw 27.5". More than enough and I hunt with ligher arrows (420gr). Just hit them in the right spot and make sure the bow is well tuned.

 

I shot this doe ,my first deer ever, last week. I used a 41# Northern Mist Baraga longbow,a GT 600 traditional arrow with a 125gr Magnus Stinger broadhead . Passed thru at 10-12yards got both lungs, she went about 35 yds.
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Dmac65, great picture and a great hunting set up. Thinking of picking up a 41 lb bow myself...

 

Good nice kill.

 

41#'s is enough.

There's an old bowhunting rule that goes something like this. Shoot as much weight as you can handle comfortably. Battling a neuritis and can't always do that, but I've done this long enough to know what will work.

These critters both fell (in short order) to a 41# bow, a 400 grain arrow, a razor sharp Grizzly broadhead and a well-placed shot. The broadhead popped thru the opposite side on both of them--even the big boar hog.

 

I would hunt with 41# for sure. I shoot 40-45# and really like the ability to anchor, hold, and aim. It is very helpful in hunting situations too when that profile is not quite right and you need to wait a bit for the perfect moment as the animal moves into position. I think accuracy outweighs power. Archery is about finesse. And as Kegan pointed out, an efficient bow with light modern arrows can perform just as well or better than heavy.