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“Modern hunting bows generally feature pullback weights around 40-60lbs. And that should make sense: deer cannot shoot back and do not generally wear armor. The military archer, by contrast, needs a lot of lethality and a lot of range because he is shooting at someone with armor and weapons who means to shoot back.

As a result, the pullback weights of war bows tend to be higher. How much higher? At least in Afroeurasia, 80lbs pullback is about as light as a war bow will usually get. Draw weights anywhere from 100lbs to as high as 170lbs are known for bows like the English longbow and Steppe recurve bows.“

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