A long time ago before compound bows became so common place and preferred, I saw a program about a bow hunter that went to Africa. In one of the scenes they showed him shooting at a compressed thatch target. He was using a laminated recurve bow whose draw weight was like a "gazillion" pounds or so. His arrows went through the target like it wasn't even there. The local natives had bows taller than they were and arrows that approached the length of spears that just barely stuck into the target. They may not have been able to shoot elephants or other thick skinned game, but they still brought home the bacon.
The high powered bow and according arrows may be less suited for the natives. An elephant isnīt easily carried home and cooked before the meat spoils or scavengers claim their part.
You don't need 150 lbs of draw weight to kill anything in North America if you have sharp, well designed arrows.
Wouldnīt that much draw weight put a question mark to the ability to reuse the arrows? A deer canīt offer substantial resistance to an arrow shot from such a bow. Retrieving the arrow would be a long search whether you hit or not - maybe with the exception of burying the arrow in a nearby tree.
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