I was inspired by the thread about what "use" to be everyone's bow of choice.  Let's move to present day and pretend cost is not an issue for a moment.  What is the make/model for the one bow you'd love to have?  I am new to traditional archery, so I recently had to contemplate this question, with only a little information (and certainly no experience)to draw from. My choice is obvious below...it hasn't arrived yet, but it is in the works.   Make it count...you can have/shoot only one.          

sheepeater or morrison

Zipper elk horn riser. I shot one in Ohio a month back and fell in love. I will own, hopefully soon

Oh yeah...forgot to add.  Since I am new to trad equipment, pics would be great!  Easier to dream when you can see it.  I'll start with mine: Morrison Cheyenne,  Osage riser...going to have pine cone carving, foam core black limbs with Copperhead skins.  

68" Sunset Hill, 75#-80#@28", bone tip protectors, w/buffalo skin wrap on straight handle.

That is so not fair!  I refuse to answer on the grounds I can't decide!
But since it is just a dream, I wouldn't mind trying out one of those new Silvertip longbows!

I just became an owner of my dream bow. I tried for two years to buy this bow, finally got the job done. It's a Big East recurve, 53lbs @ 28" and 60" long

How about a snaky Osage selfbow. On my first bow now and a nice selfbow is all I could think of replacing it.

I have an Acadian Woods 3pc Tree Stick due in July, so I guess it will have to be my current "dream" -- That is, until it gets here...    

Tie between a Blacktail or Great Plains SR Swift.  Never happen because I'll never pay that much for a bow...

Widow

Assenheimer 64in, 52lb @ 28in, three piece takedown recurve. -Charlie

A bow made by Arnold (v-archer). His bows and arrows are works of art.

Mine should be done sometime in Oct-Nov.......

3pc Silvertip Longbow 62" and #53 @ 28"

Checkered grip and antler tip overlays.

Antler burr limb bolts.

Walnut Dymondwood riser and walnut actionwood limbs w/clear glass to match the riser.

QuoteOriginally posted by Two Arrows:
I just became an owner of my dream bow. I tried for two years to buy this bow, finally got the job done. It's a Big East recurve, 53lbs @ 28" and 60" long

 

That looks like a sweetheart for sure.    

Brian,

PM sent.

My dream bow...

Well, I think it just rocked-up in the mail.

Back at college when I first became interested in the bow-and-arrow, and had eyes only for camouflaged three-stringed wheel-bows, I read a "Bowhunter Magazine" article about Paul Schafer, and was greatly impressed. But, still the appeal of the wheels held, as, from my rifle background, there was just no way that I could personally trust something so simple, and further, I hadn't yet discovered that the process was more important than the end result. So, I got hold of an elderly Hoyt compound (all I could afford, anyway) and after much trying and a few years, took my first two animals with it, a brumby and a donkey. By the time I took my first donkey, I was in my first year of teaching, and could finally afford a new bow. It was going to be a Matthews compound, but I recalled that Schafer article, and decided to first check out this traditional notion. I bought a Martin Hunter recurve. After much trying with that, I had knocked over another donkey, and a young bull buffalo (not too shabby for a fellow's second traditional kill, and fourth archery kill). But it was on a remote dam in the Simpson Desert, after an epic cat-n-mouse game with an enourmous brumby stallion into which I was finally able to place an arrow, that I decided that this traditional thing was definitely for me. Then and there, near that dam as I looked at the fallen desert monarch, I decided to get one of those Paul Schafer bows. But, back in civilisation, the prospect of waiting for ten months was too much, and I decided that it would be good to check out the longbow thing, seeing as I'd hunted with a compound and a recurve. So, a couple of Black Widow longbows came my way, and I really cut my teeth on them as a bowhunter, and my remaining one remains very special. During this time, I decided to experience Hill-style equipment too, and bought a beautiful Redman. Finally, after a few years had gone by since first deciding to get a Schafer recurve, I stayed-up real late one night so that I could call Montana early in their morning, and place an order with Dave Windauer - and after eleven months it arrived on Friday, and I'm stoked with it!

I suppose I wanted to experience as many different types of bows as I could. One day, I'm sure I'll cut, split and dry one of the nice straight trees that grow along the river, and see what happens.

But, if I just had to have one, it'd be the Silvertip that caught my attention in the magazine when I was just starting out in archery.

There are so many that I don't have that I want to try.  I have had a few dream bows come through my hands.  It is the dream that keeps you going.  It is an illusion, it's only tangible until you hold the bow, then it's gone.  The dream is sweeter than reality - usually  :p  

With that said, I want to own an RER LX and a Foley recurve.  A PSA Widow that got away.  But I have to agree with several of the above, for the total package, the bow that makes my pulse quicken is the Silvertip.  Especially want the new longbow.  Cruel, cruel world.

I haven't found it yet.

A Dean Torges osage selfbow...no doubt.

stan