Certainly they chose the minimum weight bow they believed would make a clean kill. I have frequently advised moose hunters to use 55-lb pull or greater bows. In 1923, one of the fathers of modern archery, Saxton Pope, advised bowhunters to hunt with the strongest bow they were capable of shooting accurately. That advice remains good today. To strive for humane effciency in hunting arrows, the board requires minimum standards for arrowheads used by Alaskan bowhunters.
Arrows kill by producing massive hemorrhaging and death by blood loss.
Therefore, the key to a clean and rapid kill with bow and arrow is proper shot placement, arrow penetration, and a razor sharp broadhead. To hunt with a bow and arrow in Alaska requires only a regular hunting license and tags. No special archery license or stamp is required. However, the requirement for bowhunters to be in possession of an IBEP card may soon become more common. It was not until the first week in November that I finally had an opportunity to take my Fort Richardson moose.