The Girl With the 85-lb Bow

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[SuziQ]

Check this babe!!
I tried to pull back my Daddy's hunting bow once, and I thought I'd herniate myself!

[Dogbert41]

I love archery!

[RightWhale]

Let them practice for a few days. Most men and many women have plenty of strength for that if they work up to it.

[A knight without armor]

For us in the Peanut Gallery -— you mean it weighs 85 lbs.? It does not look that heavy. We had an archery class in high school but the bows were nothing like that. They were like cowboy & Indians bows and we wore an armguard on our arms to protect from getting bruised by the string.

[mad_as_he$$]

That’s why I am a guns slinger. 1.5 pound trigger pull. Easier on the beer opening finger.

[mamelukesabre]

“...there’s probably about 3% of American men...”

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If so then people are alot wimpier than I would have ever imagined. Somehow I think your estimate might be a bit low. I don’t really believe I’m in the top 3% for strength.

[steve86]

Appearances can be deceiving. I admit my bow is only 60-some pounds but only on a good day can I comfortably separate the string from the frame.

[Izzy Dunne]

you mean it weighs 85 lbs.? It does not look that heavy

Uhhh... no.

85 pounds force applied to the string.

[Izzy Dunne]

The Girl With the 85-lb Bow

The stern is not bad, either.

[fish hawk]

That’s a compound bow. Anyone can pull it. Try a recurve 85 pounder and no way could she pull it.

[ex-NFO]

“That’s a compound bow. Anyone can pull it. Try a recurve 85 pounder and no way could she pull it.”

You have no idea what you’re talking about.

I shoot archery competitively, and of all the archers I know, about 5% shoot more than 80 lbs (none of them are women). Of the 5%, probably 50% of them are shooting too much weight and can’t shoot it well, in addition to almost certainly experiencing joint and rotator cuff problems in the future.

Of the recurve and longbow shooters I know, most shoot 45 lbs for target shooting, and 60 for hunting. The power lifter that I know that shoots a recurve shoots 65 lbs for hunting.

I have that same model bow that she does in 60 lbs. I can bench press 190 lbs, curl 90 lbs, and can just shoot it comfortably. The bow she’s shooting rises rapidly to 85 lbs approximately at mid-draw, and then drops to around 25 lbs, where she holds it to shoot.

[Paleo Conservative]

Hopefully, she won’t do what the Amazons did.

[fish hawk]

Maybe I’m dense but your in your whole post I don’t see where you are proving me wrong. An 85 # compound is as easy to pull as a way lighter regular bow. Right? (not easy but easier) You yourself just said that it is hard for only half the pull then it goes to about 25 pounds. My point exactly. And, statements like, “you don’t know what you are talking about” wont win you any friends. I am American Indian and do know just a little about the bow and arrow.

[ex-NFO]

a) I don’t care if you’re an American Indian

and

b) I was addressing your comment “That’s a compound bow. Anyone can pull it.”

[Borderline]

"An 85 # compound is as easy to pull as a way lighter regular bow. Right?"

And 85 pound compound bow is just as hard to pull as an 85 pound recurve. They both take exactly the same amount of force to get them started. The difference comes as the compound bow passes a point where the cams let off a lot of the pull required to hold the drawn bow.

Most active archers today do not have the physical capability to pull an 85 pound bow and use it. I would bet that 75% of todays active archers would be unable to full pull either an 85 pound compound or recurve at all. Of the 25% who could pull that weight most of them wouldn't be able to use it accurately.

I hunt comfortably with a 70 pound compound Hoyt bow. I have to practice to use it. I weigh 220 pounds and owned a welding shop for the last 20 years. Now I sit at a computer all day and if I don't spend a couple days a week with my bow I get to where I have to give it an uncontrolled jerk to get it pulled. AN hour a week of practice over a few days and I am comfortable.

The lady with the 85 pound compound is exemplary. She is one heck of an athlete to accomplish that task competently. I am impressed.

[Shooter 2.5]

Doubt it.
Only if you’re benchrestng or going to the Olumpics wth a .22.

[DocH]

It’s a compound bow, so how much does she actually have to pull?

[DocH]

It’s a compound bow, so how much does she actually have to pull?

[DocH]

The Girl With the 85-lb Bow

At her bow, are they 42.5 pounds EACH then? :)

And I agree about her stern.

[Rb ver. 2.0]

” I am American Indian and do know just a little about the bow and arrow.”

We don’t stereotype minorities around here.