For my travelling trips, I strictly use my Kempf Stealth T/D and my backup bow is an original Bill Stewart Multi Cam.

For whitetails here at home, I alternate between my Mikuta Longbow and Groves Spitfire.

I'm of the mindset that you will always shoot the best if you use the same bow year after year. That being said I own a Bear Custom Kodiak T/D, 69' Super Kodiak, 74' Super Grizzly, 70's Grizzly, 91'Bighorn onepiece, 02'Schafer Silvertip onepiece, and a few Hickory/Osage self bows of my own making.But I still think I shot the best when my only bow was my first custom bow a Colorado Bighorn way back in 1988. This past year I shot that little 55# Grizzly and have found that I really like it, and have begun to wonder why I have all the others?

I would love to be able to just shoot one bow. The problem is I have 5 that I shoot, and I like them all. The 4 longbows listed below, and my Black Widow PSA III.    I can't sell any of them.


Bill

I will never be able to shot just one bow. Too many good ones and not enough time or money. I would love to try them all!

Louis

I have a bow "problem"...  When I find a bowyer I like I seem to be loyal.

Earl Hoyt Jr.-- Pro Medalist Hunter, one of the best recurve bows I've ever owned. Earl's SKY bows are superb. I hunt with my ROGUE longbow everyyear.

Love my Black Widow's (all recurves), but I do need a BW PL longbow.. Ha

Also love longbows. Wingnut makes a superb BBO, his "Hunter" model and I have a Oracle on order.

I love them all and try to hunt with two different bows every deer season and then pick others for my hunting trips.

JDS III

I'm with Guru on this one!!  

One of the pleasures of life for me is trying out all the different bows        , so I buy, sell, trade, blah, blah, blah.  I have no doubt that the "one bow" archer is superior is most cases, but I feel sorry for this guy     :rolleyes:    when I think of all the fun he's missing.

However, one month before hunting season I stay with one bow (plus a backup) and try to become very intimate with it.    

Just the one for me.  Shortly after I bought my second bow (nice HH Halfbreed), my first one died.  I think it's an omen.  :-p

I used to shoot several until recently. I bought a Griffin from another tradganger.  Now it is the only bow I shoot.  I have sold a few of my bows and I am planning to sell 3 more in the next week or so.  I have never shot a bow that I shoot as good as I do the Griffin.  The bow is 60" and I am going to place an order for a 56" Shrew.  I don't know if I will ever go to another style of longbow.

I have 4 recurves: 2 Kodiak Magnums, one Grizzly, one Red Wing Hunter, and I have a High Country compound.  Most of the time I'm hunting with the High Country, but here recently I've been taking one of the Kodiaks to the woods and shooting it nearly every day. I had a Zipper, but it was too heavy for my liking, so I parted with it.
I killed my first whitetail 35 years ago, and I've taken well over 100 since then. Going back to the old recurve brings back a lot of memories and has put a new spark in the hunt.

I always shot different bows and can still pick up most any bow and hit well with it, but for the last 2 years I have pretty much shot one bow and I shoot it very well! Shawn

I have a bunch, mostly of my making, but I usually stick with one for most of the year.

I can't resist a good deal so I end up with multiple bows. I am trying to get to where I own and shoot one and have another for a back up.

I have a few old 1960's Bear recurves that I shoot once in a while,but my #1 bow for all my hunting,

(and pretty much everything else) is my Mikuta longbow.    

Montana longbow 64" 55# at 28"  

ONE BOW?? Gasp.  

I'm a "One bow too Many Type"

9 total

I have 5, but I try to shoot mainly the one I'm using for my next hunt for a month or so leading up.

I shot the same bow for 30 years. Then in the past 3 years tried many different bows (screwed my shooting up). I am now down to one bow and sticking with it. A Jack Harrison El Lobo longbow. My one bow creed didn't last very long though (4 days). I have another Harrison on the way. Well at least it is by the same bowyer. My creed has been changed from one bow to one bowyer. But this is the last bow I will ever buy, ever!

Merry Christmas.
Gil

Until the arthritis took over, I had six bows: A D-H Hunter, Kodiak Magnum, Browning Nomad and a Bear 76er, all in hunting weight; and a Browning Rover, Browning Prep and a short boy's Boy Scout recurve. in light 'target' weight. I sold the heavier bows, except for the 76er (sentiment) keeping only the Rover, Prep, and Boy Scout. I've since fabricated a couple of 'bundle bows' for indoor shooting: very light tackle. I would like to go back about 60 years to a light longbow like the one I began with, but at my age it doesn't make economic sense to invest in more bows.