Actually, Pluto, that' s where YOU' RE wrong. Untill 1988 there was NO restriction on letoff because it wasn' t needed. Compounds started off around 30% letoff, went to 40%, then 50%. P&Y learned of 65% letoff bows being introduced and the issue finally got disturbing. Higher the letoff, the closer the compound got to the crossbow, and they did NOT want to make things easier for the crossbow lobby.

So, rather than have the trend of higher and higher letoff continue, they enacted that rule. 65% was chosen because that was the highest tech available at the time. The hope was that bowhunters would continue to voluntarily comply with their rules, as we all did at the time, so there would be no demand for anything more and the trend would stop.

Only problem is they expected bowhunters would continue to hold themselves to a higher ideal than the law called for - we were ALL ' elitists' not all that long ago - and they neglected to take human nature into account.