I'm sure I'm not the only one, but I learned many years ago that during practice, target shooting, field or whatever that we get our practice shots in and then shoot whatever we're shooting. This has the muscles all loosened up and warmed up so I shot a certain poundage.

The same cannot be said for hunting situations. We sit on stand for hours, maybe days without drawing the bow. Muscles are not warmed up. Maybe it's cold out which compounds things. If the poundage is too high this is a good scenerio for what you describe---not being able to draw the bow. It is also a ripe moment for injuring those muscles---not good.

Some go the opposite way, but I found that it's much better to turn the bow down about 5# from whatever I've been shooting all summer. I'm not a kinetic energy freak by any means when it comes to deer hunting. It just doesn't take much to blow through a deer with today's equipment.

Having shot many thousands of shots all summer, in hunting situations I've drawn my hunting bow with such ease that it almost scared me. I've found myself standing at full draw, aiming at a deer, and hardly remember even drawing the bow.

To me, that's how it should be. No muss, No fuss.