Saw a thread recently on AT and a bunch of those guys were shooting 80-85. Just seems stupid. I mean even 70 is really overkill but 80-85...dang. I mean, why?

That is stupid for Whitetails. It's common for folks going to Africa I think.

If you hunt out west, I could see it being pretty helpful, in Bama nah

I think alot of those guys are trying to shoot super heavy arrows at 300 fps.

For some, it is to gain attention and have people ooh and ahh over their strength.
For others, they are trying to generate the maximum Kinetic Energy. Most shoot a very heavy arrow and broadhead. I don't think speed is their main focus.

I shoot 175#

I shoot 145.

Sheesh, I actually dropped down to 60 last year.

20+ years ago I could pull 80-90lbs with no problem...now that my shoulder is bad 62-65 is about all I want..

65lbs for me. I shot 70lbs for a long time and I let SHAW talk me into going to 65lbs. I don't ever see me going any higher than that again...

I've got a buddy with 80lb limbs, I can't tell a difference from 70lbs

I used to shoot 80 lb limbs. I wanted a bow that could hunt out west with. I would shoot a fairly heavy arrow with a fixed broadhead. I would have it maxed out when hunting elk.

When hunting whitetail, I would usually back it off to 74-76 lbs, which was very comfortable to me.

My son, who is really getting into archery, took one of my old 80 lb bows and shot it through a chrono and it was over 300 fps.

Of the 3 elk that I've killed (different bows), I've gotten 2 complete pass throughs and 1 that was nearly a pass through.

Yeah, I think mine is around 62ish. I'd probably back it down to low/mid-50's if it had that much adjustment in it

Yeah, scales actually say mine is 63.

I dropped the Hoyt back to 55#. much easier for me to make shots from awkward positions

#72 Here or that's what the scales say, its comfortable but I have been shooting regularly for a long time. I don't see the need in going any higher.

dabreeze, what positions do you consider AWKWARD ???? Cowgirl ?
69 ? Round the world ? Just askin ??? lol I always considered role play AWKWARD myself !!!

30 years ago, I shot a Hoyt that was rated 75-90#. Had a deer on Lauderdale WMA come in behind me on a really cold day and couldn't draw it. Carried it to the Hoyt dealer in Hunstville (Gery Hart???). He put it on the scale and it took 103# to break it over. I had bought the bow for an elk hunt. I got the dealer to order a set of 70# limbs.

With todays equipment you don't need that much draw poundage.

Hell at my age and with my bum knees, shoulders, elbows, wrist, well you name...any position is awkward.
I try to avoid it

I am shooting 73lbs. next year when I get a new string I am going to back it down to 65....just to make it easier to draw and I am getting a little older..

I'm shooting just under 70lbs at 300fps and delivering 89.5 ft-lbs of KE

That's cause you always play the role of Prison Bitch

I dropped down to 60lbs a few years ago and haven't regretted it at all. I'm at 59 right now.

This outta get interesting. What ya say perch?

Dang I just about lost my drink on that one!

lou lou you're the one hat buys knee pads by the dozen. Shut up Geno !!!
OK LOU LOU you scored with that shot.

I had a Pearson spoiler plus many years ago that was 80#. I think it had like 30% let-off. Shot the big aluminum 2217's with an overdraw. 1st deer I ever killed with it was a doe at 30 yds and I hit her in the left shoulder, and passed through both shoulders and stopped just before the vanes came out the right shoulder. It had some kind of force, but you could only hold it back about 10-15 seconds before you were shaking. I sold it some year later and went back to 70#. For me it was just how big a boy are you kind of deal.

my buddy still hunts a spoiler light

Those spoilers were some arm slapping mfer's