At Canada Archery, we recommend purchasing a draw weight you feel comfortable shooting repeatedly. We have many customers who come in and want to purchase the heaviest draw weight bow they can for the money. We highly recommend against this until you are a more experienced archer. Archery is a skill that takes form, technique, and time to master. You want to purchase a bow based on what you feel you can pull back and shoot at least fifty times in a row without becoming fatigued. Just because you may see a particular hunter, Olympian, or influencer pulling back an 80lb compound bow doesn't mean you should be doing the same as a beginner. Let us use weight lifting as an example. If you have never weight trained before, you wouldn't go out and buy 90lb non-adjustable dumbbells or try to squat 400lb on your first attempt. You need to build your body, form, and technique before progressing. Otherwise, your form will suffer, and in archery, your accuracy will never get better. You will never progress if you are exhausted, and your arms are burning after pulling your bow a few times. This means you need a plan to slowly improve your form and increase the draw weight of your bow over time. We recommend compound archers start with an adjustable cam bow that can go down to around 50lbs but allow increased weight over time as your form becomes better. Very high draw weight bows are used by hunters who shoot one or two arrows in an entire day. As a beginner or while shooting tournaments, nobody is shooting hunting weights. We recommend starting at 20 or 25 pounds for new recurve archers since they are holding more weight than a compound bow while at full draw. Once you gain experience and form, you can easily swap out limbs for higher draw weight. One thing we hate to see is someone buy a brand new bow, get highly excited then realize they are too tired to practice for even half an hour.