Shoulder injury - light bow options

[tom cunningham]

After my shoulder surgery last year when I began to shoot for the first few months recurve limb tips seemed much more painful at full draw than longbow limbs @ similar weights..good luck, Tom.

[Caughtandhobble]

Originally posted by tom cunningham:
After my shoulder surgery last year when I began to shoot for the first few months recurve limb tips seemed much more painful at full draw than lomgbow limbs @ similar weights..good luck, Tom.

Same here... I have been growing more and more fond of the 66" bows. You will not regret trying out the Excel, sounds like you have a limb hookup a couple post up. You can pick up some cheap ILF limbs and see if 40# bows are for you.

I would rather be under bowed than over bowed any day. Being under bowed your shoulder and shooting will not suffer as bad, as it would trying to shoot something that hurts you.

When my shoulder was hurt the DR gave me an option between surgery or PT and I started using light weights for upper body exercise with great results. Today if my shoulder starts hurting I will start my weight lifting up again and the pain is usually short lived. I'm not a MD but it really helped me, good luck with your shoulder.

[Scott E]

abbot longbows has a couple in the 40# range

[BWD]

Due to limb availability, have an ILF laying around is never a bad idea, imo.