Originally Posted by
Voodoo
It's not always testosterone driven fellas, there are some out there that have to shoot relatively heavy bows for very different reasons...
I agree, but it's a very small minority. There are people who hunt elephants, rhinos, hippos and such. Other than that there isn't a thing in the world that 70# won't handle.
NOW, if we keep our thoughts to the North American continent there isn't an animal walking that 55# or so won't dispatch. It's proven year in and year out by people shooting elk, moose and such with 55# recurves and longbows, which produce about the same a mount of energy as a compound drawing maybe 10# less.
High poundage might seem good, but that's only if you can draw it and then be able to control it well enough to shoot accurately-----every time.