No joke, just because the bow will crank past the 65 lb mark doesnt mean its ok to. A friend of mine had a Indian bow that was rated to 65 lbs he torque the limbs asfar as it would go and on the scale it showed 77lbs after firing it like that a few times the top limb exploded into several shards of fiber glass and sent the cam through the ceiling, My friend had a nice laceration across his right cheek my guess one of the cables whipped back and hit him.