I am comfortable with my Schafer recurves and my Stewart longbows.

My BlackWidow  PA or PL. Either one is like that for me.

My 3 piece, 64" ACS LB, 51#@28" with highly modified alum riser & grip.  All the modification work done by me and fit exclusively to my hand & preference!  Arrow shoots right off the hand almost.  A low wrist beauty.  

It would be the bow I'd reach for to save my life!  

I love all trad bows and have a "few", just like the rest of you.  It is the grip the counts though!

Kris

I'm not at all fair or even logical in my choice of which bows to shoot. I'm wishy-washy, disloyal, and fickle.  

Right now my likely choices for hunting season this year are either a TT Titan (last year's hunting bow) or a Bob Lee Ultimate. Some other very nice shooting bows are simply being mistreated and ignored.

The Lee is in Texas right now being fitted to a new pair of 56" limbs. I don't know whether I'll like em enough to hunt with them or the 60" limbs I already own for this bow.

I have had a number of bows over the years and am currently down four. Of all of the bows I have and shoot I always end up with the Sentman Moosejaw in my hand. Of all of the bows, 2 Marriah Thermal recurves, and a Lofton Half Breed longbow the best shooting bow has always been the Sentman. It is smooth to draw, no hand shock, and delivers an arrow on target.

Ron,
       The only way I could have that "ONE"bow is if I only had one,which I do not. I have gotten better,when one comes into the stable,one leaves. They don't eat much but I do,so when one comes one goes.
 
  I am presently trying to keep my fingers wrapped around a Buddy & Jim 21 Century. It belonged to a very dear friend and it only seems right to try and make some meat with it this year. That "ONE"will never leave the stable.

   That being said, I have a Holm-Made Osprey that is begging to be shot and a Toelke Lynx that I horse  traded for up at Denton this year. It is a very unique takedown.

 Oh well,life is to short to shoot just one. Good thread!

 By the way, is that the River Runner you bought off of me?


            Take care and Good Shooting,
                                                 Craig

Yes it is Craig......I bought that RR from you 3-4 years ago, as I recall it was one Chad made for himself and he missed the weight, I think you got it at Denton Hill. It's been my go to ever since. I have quiver inserts all over so I can use a bunch of different style and it's got a rattle can camo job......it is ugly.....lol! But it shoots well for me.

I love my Zipper Lb, it's all I've shot for over a  year now. I found it a real treat to meet the man that made it at Denton Hill last year. I see some custom bows and wood combinations that simply amaze me... I would love to shoot a silvertip but I've never held one, I guess Paul's story touches my heart a little. More than anything though I would love to craft a bow from a piece of wood I carried out of the woods, stripped the bark off, dried for a year and then slowly scrapped and crafted into a beautifully arching stick. To put a 31" red osier  dogwood shoot through a chest cavity of a whitetail deer at 10 yds... ha... well I think that might give me a whole new smile! Everyone's journey leads somewhere different... for me it feels like more in equals more out...

Yep but it is really two. A Silvertip and a Robertson. I get along nicely with those two bows.

When I made the switch to traditional only in 2000, it was a Black Widow SA III that did it...  Well, I've gone through a bunch of bows since then... Longbows and recurves... looking for something better and all the while comparing everything to that Widow...  Only thing I changed in the last 14 years is that I like quiet over anything else and low grips better then medium or high grips...  

In that time too, Widow came out with a low grip for their Recurves, and I tried a "skinny" string on a Widow Curve.  Quite by accident!  Who knew them thin strings would quiet a bow???  Anyway, those changes took care of any qualms I had with the "a for mentioned" conversion Widow I had in 2000.  Low gripped Widow Recurves are my "One" bow.  I can pick any one of them low gripped, skinny stringed beauty's to drop an arrow where it belongs as needed...  Can't ask for much more then that!

My favorite has evolved into a low grip Morrison Shawnee longbow. I have limbs from 56" to 62" length and 62" seems to be my favorite limb length on this bow.

Right now I have several - but the two that seems to always hit where I look is my Thunderhorn and my JD Berry Vixen.

I am amazed at the variety of bows, just shows everybody has different tastes and needs. Thanks for all the input!

My 60" Morrison Cheyenne takedown recurve is my favorite and most trusted bow.