Being overbowed - are you overbowed?

[Terry Green]

Been shooting since I was 8, mostly 70-80# for years and years and years.... I'm now 57 and still shooting 60 walking out the doors cold.... ALL DAY LONG.

No shoulder issues, no issues what so ever from drawing a bow correctly, none, zero, nada.

I do NOT use my shoulder to draw the bow, nor do I 'muscle' the bow in any way.  IF IF IF, you claim injury to shooting a bow, you are drawing it WRONG! End of story.

My surgeon has no clue how to draw a bow either, and my washing machine repair man has no clue how to do surgery.  But they both play each other on TV.

[Jim Jackson]

My surgeon has no clue how to draw a bow either, and my washing machine repair man has no clue how to do surgery.  But they both play each other on TV.

OMG you are killing me !!!!

[GCook]

https://accubow.com/Meet-Your-Muscles-What-You-Use-In-Archery_b_9.html
I'm not saying you'll injure the shoulder drawing a bow but any repetitive motion can cause issues and if you don't think your shoulder is involved tear your rotator cuff at work then go home and shoot your bow.  Even if it is on the bow hand shoulder picking up and holding good form is nearly impossible without significant discomfort.  I shot my compound bow through both injuries until surgery.  But had to adjust to accommodate the non working shoulder and cringe with the pain when the shoulder fell out of the socket on the shot.  I still filled my tags then had surgery to repair them.  That was 2009 (L) and 2012 (R).   Getting back to being able to shoot my bows after months of painful rehab taught me lessons on why not to do that again.
That said today I can still draw and shoot 65lbs.  I just won't when 55lbs shoots through anything I hunt.

[GCook]

That said every individual wears different.   I'm bone on bone in my right knee but my friend one year younger still runs half marathons.   I hate climbing stairs and ladders.

[Terry Green]

/quote] Any repetitive motion can cause issues
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Cook, why don't I  have sex injuries then? 

[Bamboozle]

Too damn funny!!!!

Some folks just won't admit their own failures 

[Terry Green]

Cook... bring your cylinder blocks to Laredo   

[Sam Spade]

I agree!   Too damn funny!

Cook, are you saying you shot a bow for 8 hours a day for ten years? 

Its on the internet so it must be true 

[Larry Dean]

Way back in the 70s John Schulz told me that it was impossible to shoot 1000 arrows in one day, so one day I did it.  Back quiver stuffed full of arrows, a four foot Saunders mat and a 6 foot stack of bread tie bales, 20 yards apart. I had to take breaks, but starting early one Saturday morning and stubbornly finishing at sunset to reach the thousand count.   What I learned was, one can really get stiff and sore from shooting arrows all day, I should have done it with a light weight bow, but then I would have never learned how stiff and sore one can get by shooting a bow all day.

[Wudstix]

Doesn't take me 1,000 arrows, just 8-10 dozen in a couple hours!!!  With my hunting bows.
 

[GCook]

Cook... bring your cylinder blocks to Laredo   

Lol.  I can't afford my broadhead habit as it is.
But I sure am enjoying y'all's success and stories!

[Ghost Dog]

I've been shooting longbows for decades. I'm 71. I started with mid fifties draw weight and I still shoot those weights. I workout five days a week and understand the importance or connective tissue, skeletal muscle, and the potential for overuse/repetitive use injuries.

If you're going to enjoy shooting a bow for a lifetime you absolutely have to take good care of yourself. If you don't you're going to end up shooting a kids bow or no bow at all.

[GCook]

Man guys like you and Ronnie Newell are my heroes.

[Russell Southerland]

Great stuff as always Rob and T.

[Part Time Archer]

All in good fun, I love archery and the crew here.

[Wilderlife]

Thanks for keeping up the good chat in here! I've been out bush for a week so haven't had the chance to read it all.

Came back and shot my bows a bit and still feel pretty good. Get tired a little quicker than before but I think in general, over the last 12 months I've had more steps forward than I've had backwards.

Now that life has slowed down (a tad) I'm going to work on my strength and fitness a lot and go into the 2022 fallow rut with more confidence than ever before!

[Terry Green]

Part Time..... good name...real good. 

[Bamboozle]

Hey Part Timer, I surely hope you are joking because if not your are being severely wreckless and are clueless.  Your comments about lifting weights with good form and regiment is as prone to injurie as someone who walks in and randomly starts slinging weights around is a complete falsehood. 

That dog won't hunt. 

[Larry Dean]

I injured myself twice, working out so I could handle bows 80 to 100 pounds. One year I seriously tore a muscle in my arm and was forced to kill my deer with a 37 pound longbow.  i never seriously injured myself shooting those heavy bows, except for a finger injury that ended the heavy bow use for me. i did find that there is a considerable learning curve when dropping down in bow weights. Byron Fergusson said in a note to me that if he could drop down to a lighter bow for his demonstrations he would. When one can control a heavy bow, believe it or not, there are accuracy advantages. At 70 I can still shoot a 90 pound bow, but my fingers don't like it. I will stick to under 60 pounds, mid 50s that can be shot all day is plenty good for what I hunt.

[Jim Jackson]

Looks like part time is a fictional character.