Mark from MA
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Lol. I’m not weak by any means but I do have to practice, practice, practice my draw. I set my bow to the max at 70 lbs and I was able to draw back 5 times. 6th time was whoa.....lol
I’m going to keep up with the field tips at this poundage so that those muscles that don’t get the flexing get to flexing more.
Shooting lower poundage and getting correct form is perhaps more important than cranking it up. Most any adult guy can handle 60 pounds and that will shoot thru lungs easily. Its all Ive ever hunted with and I've killed around 100 deer very easily with 60#.
Like someone said, if you crank it up to 70, your arrows spine is probably not going to work ideally for that poundage. Unless the Cabela's guy set you up with overly stiff arrows. Add to that, those very adjustable bows probably are not too comfortable of a draw cycle at high poundage.....they are engineered and meant to adjust, not to be smooth.
I know your doing it to strenghten your draw muscles, but don't get hung up on draw weight, make sure your arrows match and you can comfortably draw without a ton of movement after sitting a cold ass stand for hours. You should be able to hold the bow in your bow arm, and just pull straight back to draw. If your doing all sorts of gyrations to get it back or pointing the bow up at the sky to draw. your overbowed.......the deer will see you and be showing you its ass before your even done drawing.