The whole point was to maintain a clear and demonstrable difference between bows and crossbows. If you' re using a 50 pound, 80% letoff bow, the holding weight is 10 pounds. I don' t know about you, but I could hold that back for a LONG time. Bump that up to 90% and you' re holding 5 pounds. If one of the main arguments against crossbows is that they don' t have to be drawn in the immediate presence of game, then you' re sunk with 80% letoff because they don' t have to be drawing in the immediate presence of game either.

Whether you draw while the animal is out of range and coming in and hold till you get the shot, or whether you draw while the animal is walking behind a bush and hold till the shot, you are NOT drawing in the immediate presence of game.

If you don' t draw when the shot is presented, then you are using your compound exactly LIKE you would use a crossbow, with the only exceptions being the shoulder stock and a somewhat reduced field of fire.

By the way, 65% letoff on that 50 pound bow would be 17 1/2 pounds. Considerably more than ' a few ounces.' You guys shooting 70 pounds, the difference would be 14 pounds vs 24 1/2 pounds. Let' s be honest about what that extra percentage of letoff really is.

And before someone else says it, yes, most of us draw into the stops anyway and being into the stops is being into the stops whether we' re talking 90% or 50%. But we don' t HOLD against the stops, now do we... We pull into the stops only when executing the shot.