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Need advice on bow weight!

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Part time Archer:
Thank you everyone ! This is a great forum.

StickMark:
One consideration is how much use, and abuse, your body has had up to age 40.  Hundreds of thousands of pushups or straight bench  may have set some damage in the shoulders already.  Seems from reading others comments, both here and other sites, that individuals vary in ability to handle, long term, above 50-55#'s.

I "plus one" the above comments. Around now, mid spring, I start really practicing again.  By end of season, January 31st, I can pull 45 pounds like it is a toy.  I am 53.  However, I need to go slow, mindfully.

Going higher, once again, on draw weight, for flatter trajectory when desert, grassland hunting.  I will have to be slow on building up to volume as I have ignored warnings and had archer's elbow before. I have some exercise bands that I pull when I can not get to the hills to practice.  That helps.

Woodely:
Apparently Howard Hill was shooting 80# bows daily.  There again my physique was no less whimpy than him in those days.   But 80#  that is quite stiff.  Argh.

Strelets:
It is quite realistic to expect to be shooting 60+ lb at 60+ years. I am 68 years old and I regularly shoot English longbows of 65 to 70 lb. I know an archer who shot a 65-pounder until he was 74, when he came down to 55 lb. We are both of slim build, and neither of us do any training other than shooting.

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