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nickf:
"heavyweight (80#+) ELB and to-the-ear draw for hunting."

no ear draw for howard hill.

I've shot my 110# today... beer bottle hunting. Didn't feel too good. shot a few necks though ;)

Nick

Adam Keiper:
Howard definitely shortened his draw.  I've always used a corner of mouth draw for all my shooting, hunting included.  I'm not as accurate when stretching my draw, but I just get these itches to hunt with a particular bow, or arrow, broadhead, or method.  It's neat to set a goal on what or how you want to kill a deer, and accomplish that.  A medieval military setup just has my attention lately.

Rod:
Adam,
They made bowhunting illegal here after I shot small game as a kid but before I came back into shooting heavier bows.

All I can tell you is that we did not generally shoot from tree stands.
I guess a poacher would still-hunt or use a natural ground blind.
It's what I would do.

But a lot of the legal shooting of deer was done on driven game, contemporaneous pictures often show the archer standing by a tree.

It is relatively simple to step out just enough to shoot fine past the edge of the tree with virtually no apparent movement from the point of view of a deer, especialy on a day when there is plenty of wind movement.

Gaston Phoebus talks about green painted hunting bows (definitely a plus with a yew bow that has a naturally bone white back), and about lower draw-weights.

I guess that would be an 80 to 90 pounder in those days.  :-)

If you are comfortable and are used to a slight degree of offset, why not?
And if it is a weight you can manage when cold....

I have shot the longbow from treestands and worse on occasion and whilst it is certainly possible, it can at times be a little inhibiting as compared to shooting a shorter bow.

Rod.

PS: Whilst Howard Hill shot a heavier bow in Africa for big game, he is also on record as saying that 70lb or so was his prefered hunting draw-weight.

Pat B:
I believe the war bow was an artillery weapon and meant to out shoot(distance) the opponents bows. Not meant for short range shooting. Accurate at 200m+ but not necessarily at 20m...although it could be done.
 A heavy weight hunting bow is made for shooting at hunting ranges...but could shoot an adversary at 200m.

Kegan:
I like longer bows and heavier weights, but I still draw to the corner of my mouth. I like my bows around 75-80# or so (as that's the heaviest I've built for myself at the moment), and recently stretched my draw to 29" at the corner of the mouth (much more comfortable at this length now). I hunt from the ground, and last year I used a 76# semi-ELB 70" long for hunting deer. I got within range a number of times, only reason I didn't get one was because I never managed to pick a spot- not because of the gear I was using.

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