no learn from it as I went , it was the hard road but you have to learn from the way you are tested ..one my 14 year old son was shooting targets with me when it happened .. second they teach everyone to turn your head away from the bow when you hear something go wrong in this rare case it was the worst thing I could have done .. so not always what they teach is true ... some cases just never got that memo !and I did back and win the largest 7 point taken in the Walmart big buck contest .. 223 lbs hanging weigh . I hunted for 4 more years and then stopped hunting and have not hunted for many years now ..out of about 12 people that hunted in our group I was the last to stop hunting ...but learn what the difference between a good bow hunter is and what a great bow hunter is ,,do you all know what the difference is ...I saw two of the largest deer I have ever seen and I never got a shot off at ether of them .. but I had a great respect for the game I hunted and refused to take a bad shot and wound any deer or game ,if you don't have a clear shot that you know you can make don't let it fly ... ...that's what makes the best hunters IMHO . life goes on ...how did I get the nick name . my cousin is full blooded Mohawk and he called me Blind feather when I was just a kid growing up we played in the wood behind his house ...my hunting friends knew it and called me the Blindbowman when I was Blind I would go out and shot targets from sun rise to well into the dark ..when the sun went down I didn't know it ,and in the dark all you hear was me cutting the target up shot after shot . I had a 10 by 10 back drop wood wall behind my targets at first I wasted a few arrows after a few days I wasted none ...I took a fish line and starched it between my target and my shooting distance .after I faced off the correct direction the rest was all locked in my head a reflect of the mind and body ...I could still shoot my bow blindfolded from 45 yards away ...I sold the bow and never shot again ...my cousin Cook is one of the chef of the Mohawk nation ,they call him a pure blood Mohawk ...his mother remarried to my uncle Bob the man my first name was named after !me and my cousin spend many great times playing in the wild and it helped me be who I am today ...
the avg weight draw of a new compound is 65 lbs I like the 80 lb draw weight most can not fire at 80 lbs but in modern compounds they have a let off and if you set in a tree stand for hours in the bitter cold your chances go way down of bulling the bow back to full draw ...I will give you a good example of this my oldest brother made a bow in wood shop in high school it hade 125 pound pull to full draw . it took 3 years to locate a string that would fit the bow and the kept shattering the arrows when ever they hit the targets ,these are just a few of the reasons very few long bow are modern fiber class bow construction... so no very few bows were ever made for 140 lb draw ... am I saying that it is imposable to shot a 140 lb target bow . no .. they are far and few between .. for show more then hunting ...the for years broke string after string till a master bow maker told them what was wrong, the bow string had to be custom made for that bow .he made two strings for the bow and it never broke the first string ,the last I knew my brother sold the bow to a big game hunter and he was shooting world class elk ..that was more then 35 years ago where it is today I have no idea ...conditioning your arms to a 140 lb bow is crazy ....your fingers would need special training ...
