ISO 100lb longbow or recurve

Looking to buy a traditional bow with a high draw weight. I shoot RH at 29. Thought I would check to see if anyone had one that they wanted to get rid of before I had something built. Thank You for any responses.

I know a guy that has an original Howard Hill longbow in the 80 to 85 pound range @ 28.
He will probably want your first born child with a little boot. Will let you know.

So you must have some strength and power.

Not many people can shoot traditional equipment at that draw weight with any accuracy.

Are you headed to Africa?

God Bless,
David B.

No I am not going to Africa, at least not for now. It's just what I prefer to do.

What poundage are you currently shooting in traditional equipment?

God Bless,
David B.

Just how big a boy are you?

They make some fast bows nowadays if speed is what your after....

Getcha an Excalibur crossbow and just remove the stock portion.

Bickerstaff Bows.

https://bickerstaffebows.co.uk/epag...f6518201.sf/en_GB/?ObjectPath=Categories

Word to the wise - don't get any tip laminations. I had an 80 pound takedown recurve that threw the moose tips into the neighbor's yard about every 500 shots.

I had a buddy in High school who’s dad was a world class archer with a long bow. He was on impossible shots, Letterman and various other tv shows.

Him and my buddy were making custom bows in Hartselle.

Byron or Zac Ferguson

Dang!! 100#!!! My shoulder has developed a dull ache just thinking about shooting that. Good luck in your search. How heavy a bow do you shoot now?

I shoot 80lbs now. Thank you FreeStateHunter, I’ll try and look them up.

That's cool.just recently learned byron was from Alabama.

Back in the early 90’s Byron shot in my group in a couple of 3D tournaments. He could shoot a nickel out of the air but missed his fair share of those 3D animals.

A damn biggun apparently.

I shot with Byron down at lakes archery and had no idea who he was he just ask me to shoot with him. We shot about the same on the 3D range but then he started trick shooting. It was awesome to watch in person and having my own private show.

Do you hunt with the 80# bow?

english bowmen routinely shot 100-125-pound yew longbows, firing very heavy war arrows. by law, they had to shoot often, and had curved spines because of it. they were not big dudes, by our reckoning ...

Normal people buy 45-60lb bows for hunting all game all over the world. Couldn't imagine needing over a 60lb stick bow.pretty sure that's when folks learned to make guns.

You don't need to be large to shoot a heavy bow. Just need the strength it requires.

Some of yall may remember..before my time im afraid..but..when trad made its big push from the late 70’s to the 90’s..most dudes shot 60-80lb recurves and long bows..an alot of guys shot 80-120lb compounds..my brother was shootining 82lbs on a pse in about 1999. 100lbs is alot…but a good many folks used to think it was necessary….they make bows up to 250 or 300lbs..it takes a heck of a man to draw one back..more for looks than anything

I'm not a big guy, 6ft 210lbs. I have been shoeing horses for 17 years, so if I can't pull back 100 pound bow, I got way bigger problems. Yall don't forget that not everyone in this country sits around a desk all day. And yes I hunt with an 80 pound bow, and every time I draw it back and kill something, I think to myself how much I would like to have a 100 pound bow. But I do appreciate the input.

I had a PSE Fireflite bow that I bought either in 1989, I think. The weight range on it was 75-95 pounds. I kept it set on 85 most of the time. I shot it every day, usually for a couple hours. One day AMB and myself were at Snead St shooting bows in the parking lot and he noticed how far down the limbs could still go. We went to a bow shop long ago gone, in Boaz and bottomed it out. IIRC, I think it pulled either 110 or 120 lbs on the scales at the shop. Maybe he'll see this and remember. We took it back to school and shot it a few times. Even with that, I couldn't have shot a 100 lb recurve then, nor now.

I killed enough deer to fill up a couple construction dumpsters with a switchback pulling 60lbs. I don't see the point in it but good luck with your search

Kinda like going to the gym and trying to squat more and more weight then you damage your back and can't lift any weights period.would suck to resort to crossbow hunting cause you destroyed your rotator cuff. At some point you have to decide how necessary it is for 25fps and your sure ain't gonna feel tough with that crossbow

100 years ago, back in the late 80's when bows still shot slow, a lot of us shot high poundage to try to get some speed.