whats better?

[deermaster1]

drawing the heaviest weight possible, so that if injury or age says you need to drop weight, you can still draw a decent weight
OR
using the lightest weight ethical for what your hunting, in hopes that the light weight will never take a toll on your body.
what would you do?

[Pat B.]

avoid extremes .........

[bushytail]

Find a happy medium.

[Soilarch]

My plan is to have a plan...how's that!?

Seriously, the human body is pretty amazing.  It does age and gets to the "nope, I just can't do THAT anymore" stage.

However, if you take your take in working up to weights and LISTEN to your body when somethin' ain't right...I think you'll have plenty of years in your shoulders barring an unrelated disease or injury.  Work up slow, and drop down anytime you even *think* you might need to.

Powerlifting is pretty harsh on the body, and you can usually tell who's been doing thinks the smart way by how long they last.  

I'd like to have a bow below my hunting weight, at my hunting weight and one a few pounds heavier.   Shoot the heavy one every couple days until it's no longer heavy.  Shoot the light one if things aren't feeling right or if I want to focus on release and have my "real" weight for everything else. This way I'll be "growing into" a bow without always shooting too much and also have one to fall back to on the days or months when something aint right.
Well, that's   my  plan at least.

[Orion]

Good plan Soilarch.  I do the same thing.

[amar911]

I do the same thing too. I have lots of different weights of bows and shoot them all. I tend to hunt with the mid-weight bows, especially the ones that are a little lighter than what I can comfortably shoot at the upper end during an extended target practice session. I never just shoot the lightest bow I think I could get away with in a hunting situation unless that situation is going to be for very large game like cape buffalo! In that case I would shoot all the bow I could reasonably handle, which for me is about 70 pounds.

Allan