I want to experience what it was like to use a longbow in medieval times and I soon realised that my 65lb Victorian bow is not really this so I started considering the possibility of getting a heavy, full compass warbow although I thought it wasn't really a realistic goal - until I found
http://www.englishwarbow.com
It turned out there are lots of people out there with the same goal and it is still possible to pull a heavy bow :-)
I have just bought myself a 102lb @ 32" tri laminate bow from
http://www.diyarchery.com/