My girl, Samantha, shoots 41 and 44lb longbows. She shot 45lb recurves before that and shoots clean through hogs and every other type of critter. While I still own a 70 pounder, as I grow older my draw weights have come down. I have a number of bows in the 45 pound to 50 pound range. When bowhunting first cut it's teeth, target weight bows as low as 35 pounds were used. Now I am not saying that we should go backward, but I know of a number of bowhunters, in states where it is legal, who kill several deer a year with light weight tackle. It is arrow placement that gets the job done. Samantha, a skilled hunter, perfers Magnus two blade heads. She likes cut on contact as they enhance and maximize the lighter bow weight. She has fallen in love with the Stika Grizzly Stiks that I bought her, they are deadly out of her "Black Rhino" longbows, and front to back tappered shafts are the best .....