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Thanks, but it’s not a compound. It’s a recurve. I practice Ming dynasty military archery. Shoot on right side of the bow, draw with my thumb.

Here’s me pulling 83lbs on my horse in collaboration with another YouTuber: https://youtu.be/iq8SNuULtr4

83 is not something I can do all day, like with 50lbs.

My goal is 105lbs, 3 shots, no form faults.

I’d be interested too to know the average of most sold sizes as well

By designing condoms. I’d say that’s an inherently good use of engineering knowledge

Archery as well. I can shoot a heavier bow than most archers (83lbs currently is max safe with good form rn) I was taught to utilize my skeletal structure for stability, and to prevent injuries.

Yeah, that would be a lot of damage.

We use really heavy arrows (about 5x heavier than most arrows) which the arrow flies with massive amounts of joules.

Historically light arrows are usually meant for long distance, skirmish like mounted combat, and heavy arrows are like 50 calibers, but used at ranges around 70-50yds in combat. Furthest distance that I am aware of for the Chinese was a test of 150m distance. About a 3x3 circle to hit.

Lighter arrows with shorter bows can go much farther than that. So each type of bow has its own unique advantages and disadvantages.

Here’s my teacher shooting 99.7% of his body weight (143lbs) https://youtu.be/iC2v_akhsAg

Stringing… is hard, and I get a bruise on my leg every time lol.

Form seeking is rewarding yet challenging because I now dislike seeing video of myself shooting (I film multiple shots every session for corrective work) because I know and can see my minute faults, which I take as a slight embarrassment and a big item on my daily to do list.

Edit: here is the model of bow I use for 70lbs and above https://mrbows.com/en/serbian-bow-tiron/