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What are we shooting Longbows or Recurves???

Started by Red Tailed Hawk, June 27, 2010, 11:02:00 AM

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Kenneth

#20
June 27, 2010, 01:41:00 PM
I can shoot a recurve better at a target but when an animal comes into range I'm a much better shot with a longbow.  I don't know if it's a mental thing or what but it has caused me to give up recurves and stick with my longbows.
Chasing my kids and my degree for now but come next fall the critters better look out.  ;)

eric-thor

#21
June 27, 2010, 02:56:00 PM
i have and can shoot both but i love the hybred longbow. its just poetic to me. recurves are no doubt pretty but a longbow is simple elegance.  :bigsmyl:    :archer2:
form is everything! shoot well shoot hard.

#22
June 27, 2010, 03:51:00 PM
A right hand 51pound juniper Pearce Point Robertson longbow and a left hand 51 pound myrtle on myrtle really pretty Robertson longbow. I have others, but those are the only two I will be using this year.

Curveman

#23
June 27, 2010, 04:05:00 PM
For me, for now, it's gotta be a broom handled, continuous "D" shaped (at least when strung), longbow! Not cut to center, let alone past it. Pistol grip hybrids don't count as longbows to me. (I don't care about that "if the string doesn't touch the limb" nonsense; that's an arbitrary definition at best and one I won't subscribe to).     ;)    I generally lump such bows in the recurve class)!       :bigsmyl:      Don't get me wrong-I love recurves, hybrids, selfbows, but I LOVE this longbow I've been shooting and I don't care that it was harder to learn to shoot well and it's not as forgiving as my recurves-THAT'S part of the FUN/Romance of "real longbows!" as I like/define them!      :D
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Flying Dutchman

#24
June 27, 2010, 05:13:00 PM
No doubt: hybrid longbow.
It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that string! [/i]                            :rolleyes:              
Cari-bow Peregrine
Whippenstick Phoenix
Timberghost ordered
SBD strings on all, what else?

Elk whisperer

#25
June 27, 2010, 05:18:00 PM
Longbows forever- Howard
The older I get the better I was

Soilarch

#26
June 27, 2010, 05:33:00 PM
One of each. A Pittsley Predator and a Sentman R/D.

I prefer which ever one I'm more accurate with.


...which is usually neither     :knothead:
Micah 6:8

Bryan Burkhardt

#27
June 27, 2010, 05:37:00 PM
August 2010 - Bear A Handle Takedown for Antelope in Colorado

September 2010 - Cari-bow Takedown Longbow for Moose & Caribou in Alaska

October - December 2010 - Different Recurve (TBD) for Whitetail in Ohio and Michigan
You can increase your wealth by counting your blessings

Frank V

#28
June 27, 2010, 05:41:00 PM
Howard Hill Big 5!   :campfire:
Frank
U.S.A. "Ride For The Brand Or Leave."

John3

#29
June 27, 2010, 06:22:00 PM
98% of the time Longbow... Quiet, lightweight and deadly..!
"There is no excellence in Archery without great labor".  Maurice Thompson 1879

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Shifting Shadow

#30
June 27, 2010, 06:33:00 PM
Red Tailed Hawk, I shoot both recurves and longbows about the same in the woods.  For 3-D, I have more confidence shooting recurves.
"Keep the bow you like or you will be looking forever." -H.J.

One bow. One arrow. My ideal.

Dalgo

#31
June 27, 2010, 07:55:00 PM
I'm too new at this.  Right now it looks like a long bow.  Love how the longbow feels.  Too early in the year to tell though.  Probably the long bow. Decisions, decisions......

lpcjon2

#32
June 27, 2010, 08:36:00 PM
Longbow,did I say longbow I meant longbow.I did get to shoot a recurve recently and enjoyed it,But I like feel and the punch of the longbow.IMHO
Some people live an entire lifetime and wonder if they have ever made a
difference in the world, but the Marines don't have that problem.
—President Ronald Reagan

Irish

#33
June 27, 2010, 08:40:00 PM
I love shooting many kinds of bows, both longbows and recurves.   But if I can have only one bow, it's a recurve - and in my case a Widow.
Mel Riley

Red Tailed Hawk

#34
June 27, 2010, 08:54:00 PM
It's looking like the Longbows are winning   :coffee:
I'm drinking from a saucer 'cause my cup has overflowed

Friend

#35
June 27, 2010, 08:56:00 PM
How wonderful it is to have a choice and the right to have our own opinion.
>>----> Friend <----<<

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BCWV

#36
June 27, 2010, 09:00:00 PM
Longbow.

cahaba

#37
June 27, 2010, 09:45:00 PM
Straight Limb deep cored longbow with a straight handle. It is deadly accurate. I never devoted enough time to shoot my recurve that well so I sold it.
cahaba: A Choctaw word that means
"River from above"

jackdaw

#38
June 27, 2010, 09:58:00 PM
sorry guys....Ed Holcomb ruined me! Have a hard time giving up the speed and power of a good recurve! Love the asthetics and smoothness of the longbows....but the elegant grace and grace of a 59" kodiak styled recurve.....I'm jaded...john
John Getz:........... Time flies like an arrow, Fruit flies like bananas.
Ed HOLCOMB 59' KODIAK 51#
Ed HOLCOMB 59' KODIAK 47#
67'1/2  BEAR SUPER K  44#
WILSON BROTHERS BLACK WIDOW 60" 45#
LONGRIVER ELK 62" LONGBOW 53#
1967 WING 62" SLIMLINE 43#

Pops

#39
June 27, 2010, 10:05:00 PM
I shoot both   :archer2:
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