Bought a Ballistic XHS XL prop recently and it came with small 5/32 holes drilled into it like the PVS holes so they can be widened to your desired size. Ran it like that at first and found really low 2500 RPM holeshot but still only took 3.5 second to get on plane with myself and a half tank of fuel, very lightly loaded with an empty livewell.
I recently opened up the holes to the standard large size and took the rig out again. Only this time I didn't get to try it on my own and had a buddy on it who weighs 210-220 lbs, a full 31 gallon tank of fuel, a full tournament loadout, a small 12 can cooler with 5 lbs of ice in it, and a half full livewell with a capacity of 35 gallons so you could only imagine how loaded down this thing was. Despite all of that my holeshot was still only about 3.5-4 seconds with the holes opened up to the proper size which usually come sized to that of a Tempest Plus prop.
Anyway, long story short, my main question is how much takeoff RPM loss are we usually looking at under these sort of conditions? I find it hard to believe that opening the PVS style holes are still making the RPM stay the same, but I also find a drop of 1000-1500 RPM hard to believe as well. If my holes are not enough to raise holeshot RPM then I'm starting to wonder if I'm going to need to add a second set of smaller PVS holes like the Bravo 1FS prop has.
Thanks in advance!