What do you guys consider to be overbowed?

[Crittergetter]

Originally posted by pdk25:
I don't consider someone to be overboard just because they can't do this.

   

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[buckeyebowhunter]

If you're out blind bale shooting i think it's fairly easy to control a bow that may be too heavy for you to shoot normally or in hunting conditions because you're just thinking about form. But once you throw focusing on a live animal into the mix it's quite different. I also believe that being an archer and bowhunter are two very different things. I do shoot what most ppl consider heavy bows and although my form may not always be perfect I like to think that my form is good enough for me to enjoy hunting with a traditional bow and make ethical shots on animals.

People's strengths vary greatly.  I shot 200 plus arrows left hand and 200 plus arrow right handed yesterday in two separate sessions with a low 50s and a 60 pound bow.  Two or three hours in the morning and about 4 hours in the afternoon with a young guy that was planning on getting a 75 pound bow.  His logic was, "your a 65 year old old guy and I am in my 20s and work hard everyday."  I talked him down to 50.  I pay pretty close attention to my draw lengths so I do not short draw with long shooting sessions.  Shoot net length arrows helps as my draw check control.   My wife was shooting with me today about 50 arrows each and she declared good enough.  He stopped by stiff as a board and said that he had to miss church today because he hurt everywhere.  'What doesn't kill you makes you stronger.'  I had my fingers crossed when I told him that, I was lying.  'What doesn't kill you the first time, may kill you the next time' sounds more like the truth to me.

[Captain*Kirk]

For some reason (???) people get this thought in their head that "they're not a man unless they shoot a XX pound bow"
Everyone's muscle strength, bone and skeletal structure and shooting form is different. The smart archer or hunter knows this and finds the bow combo that will work for him...so that he can, at all times, dominate the bow rather than work around the handicaps of an overbow scenario...regardless of  what others 'think' of him. In fact, everybody's opinion will start going up when he drags home more deer than anyone else.

[pdk25]

I guess what I meant is, being overboard is relative to the situation.  I have had exact time time where I had to hold over 5 seconds she hunting, and it was around d 10 seconds.  Some people may never have to, so it seems silly to put a requirement to hold the bow back a specified amount of time.  I play little games,like aiming 90 degrees off target then slowly swinging to the target, aiming and shooting.  I do this with my heavier bows just to prove to myself that I can control when I release, and it is just something different that I do.  Once again, I don't think that just because someone can't do that, that they are overboard.  As long as they can hit the target consistently and maintain form under whatever shooting conditions they face, I think they are fine.  That might mean that the same person might be overbowed with drastically different weights when spot and stalk hunting as opposed to 3d competition or practice.  Since this is predominantly a hunting site, that is probably where more focus should be placed, IMHO.

[Tradcat]

I think one of the biggest reason that HUNTERS over bow themselves is that they think they don't have enough weight at their draw length to successfully harvest an animal ethically

[Babbling Bob]

That' super easy. Been there done that (in 1962).

Might be over bowed when you can't get it back to anchor and consentrate well after several days of shooting a whole lot of arrows such as the number referred to above in the post.

Pretty simple fix. For my over bowed situation, I bought a lighter bow. Solved the problem.

[pdk25]

Probably so Tradcat.  Experience is the best teacher of what it takes to get the job done, but sometimes you have to rely on what others have experienced at first. Lots of other threads with info on what low energy setups can do, and some others showing some advantages of higher energy setups, which a high percentage of the hunters here will never need.