I was wondering what your favorite D shaped longbow was. I shot a Belcher Union Jack at
Compton and was impressed with it. Most Hill
style bows have to much handshock for me,but
the Union Jack did not seem to.Due to a neck injury, hand shock seems to bother me.Any
otherones out there that are easy on the hand?
THANKS  BOB

That did not turn out to good! BOB

Bob I haven,t shot alot of them, I have  moosejaw bows that I really like so I haven,t looked for anything else. If something happens to these I have shot JD Berrys bow and it was a very nice bow, The only bow I shoot now was one Gary Sentman made for himself, but he dropped his poundage so he sold it to me, It does have slight rd but takes on the D shape when braced, it will stay with me until I can,t pull it anymore, just a pleasure to shoot.

I shoot pretty exclusively, only D Style Longbows. Except for a Martin Stick, I've never experienced hand shock. With proper tuning / brace height, one really shouldn't have to deal with hand shock. I think especially the HIll Bows get a bad rap about handshock but with proper tuning that rap is unfounded.

Liberty shoots the best for me. Northern missed (as a buddy says) was good too.
SL

what about a good selfbow?

Mohawk! Awsome D shape longbow.

For me and my limited experience with longbows the Abbott was a pleasure to shoot.

The two that I own, my Horne's Traditionalist and my Mohawk.Two great bows out there now as far as I'm concerned.

JD Berry, Abbott and my present favorite D-bow a Wallace Mountain by Dave Wallace. The Abbott I owned was bought from KY..Rob two posts up. That was a sweet bow. I wish I had it back! Here is a pic of it.



That is one pretty bending piece of wood!!    


Here's one of the Wallace Mountain.




-Leonard-

Robertson Stykbows

Northern Mist, hands down. Steve builds the best longbows i have seen. He just recently built me a Shelton. 4 lams of bamboo with an ebony riser.

hopefully ill have some pics up soon.

I really enjoy my Hill's,haven't experienced the any handshock that everyone talks about.I did feel handshock on my Hill with dacron and silencer puff's.But I swapped that for a D97 string and what a difference that made.And my Green Mt. Classic is a sweet shooter,too bad they are not being built any more.

what are some of the differences between these?

Do they have wider limbs or anything? Is there different designs involved?

I don't really know how to phrase my question I'm sorry. Are there noticeable differences between shooting different D-bows?

For instance I see on the Howard Hill Bow website aside from limbs and different options for woods they are the same bow. Are these bows you guys are talking about just different lam combos and handle styles or can you really tell a difference between them?

I guess I'm really asking will 2 D bows of the same material and length and poundage vary in speed, and noise by the bowyers take on the D bow?

As you can tell I have very limited experience with them.

The answer to your last question is yes.  I'm not a bowyer but I have spoken to alot of them.  Even though they have the D shape when strung, their unstrung profiles can vary.  I believe that it also has something to do with the lams, type and style.

Either one of these will be good to ya
Northern Mist Shelton





Robertson Vision longbow




Eric

My HH Halfbreed is a bit handshocky, I guess, but my hand only hurts when I'm not shooting it.  :-D

I too love my Horne Traditionalist and now have added a Mohawk takedown to my favored list. Both are very pleasant to shoot as well as look at.

Ron

oh. well I know about the r/d. I have one of those. I was just wondering about differences between classic straight d bows.

The only one I have is my Hill Redman, so it's my favourite!