How heavy did you start?

[britt]

58#, now 45#. Took awhile to get rid of ego.

[graybark uk]

1984 ( age 18 ) 35lb target recurve  then up & up to around 70lbs left handed then injury made me switch to right handed still have a set of 64@27 limbs for my widow ( I draw28.5 ) but haven't shot them for ages . Don't feel the need to over bow myself .  

[riverrat 2]

55#'s for a year. Then I started having terrible elbow pain. Went into ILF's that were 45-50 lbs.
found I liked high 40's. Now,I like 47-48lbs.

[ddauler]

Started out in the 80's with 65lbs shot up to 70 for years because everyone else did! Now 47 at 28 draw more like 29 really was over bowed all those years.

[Northwest_Bowhunter]

At the age of 5 I would tie a string to any piece of scrap lumber or down tree limb I could find or manufacture.  Estimated 1 - 5#, when I was 7 my pop bought me a green bear fiberglass recurve ~25# and I used that one for years (until my dad took it away for me shooting things I shouldn't).

[boog21]

My first was a 45 lb Bear Grizzly.  My dad surprised me with it for my 13th birthday (1974) He took me to the local archery shop before my birthday to see what they had.  I picked out the Grizzly, but he said the $80 price tag was a little more than he could spend.  A few days later I came home from school to find it laying on my bed!

[BowHunterGA]

Transitioned from wheelies to trad with a 45# recurve. I was shooting 85# compounds at the time I switched. I shoot heavy longbows now but it worked my way up very slowly. I wish I had not sold that 45# Chekmate Falcon, but I did.

[hvyhitter]

Shot a 45# bear 76r in the late 70s then went to compounds till 1992 and traded a 80# compound for a 80# Mamba as it was the only trad bow at the local bowshop, shot it OK a few years then ordered my first custom at 60# and thats were I stayed......

[jkm97]

Can't imagine shooting an 80# stickbow. I killed my first 12 deer with an 84# compound, but that thing had 80% letoff.

[Joshua Grimshaw]

I started with a compound but at 16 switched to a Brackenbury Drifter. At my draw it was 55#. I killed my first buck with any bow that year. I had to toss a lot of hay bails to pay for that bow.

[RecurveRookie]

34# @ 27.5 Samick Sage Recurve, 3 years ago.

[tarponnut]

Ben Pearson solid fiberglass 30#(killed a lot of stuff with it) and then shortly after a Bear Black Bear 40#. My next bow was a Bear Kodiak Magnum 63# that I shot with sight pins! I cringe when I think about that now,lol! I was accurate on targets but missed about 100 deer with it.
Now everything is 50# and under for me.