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albertakid
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Man you guys are making me feel way better about the bows I have had around here!!! Lets see

Bear Kodiak Magnum
Two Fedora 560 takedowns
Snake Backed osage self bow
Rivers Edge take down recurve
Morrison Take down recurve
Black widow Ma II
Schafer Silvertip
Centaur Long Bow

and a few more I am having a hard time remembering right now

Sold them all though and only have a Quinn Stallion and a DAS on order once the DAS gets here will hang the Quinn up and save it for my boy as the DAS is the best I have ever had my hands on I figure I only need the one. All though I would love to have all of them, just can't afford to have them sitting around.

Jordan

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REM
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Jeffery Royal Hunter Recurve
Great Plains Longbow
Treadway Longbow

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Justin Falon
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Schafer
Robertson
Morrison
Fedora
Hill
Mahaska
Kohannah (a very under-rated longbow)
Shrew
Mosshorn
Bighorn

Now I am BROKE and have resorted to making my own straight limbed longbows. They are hill style I suppose but bear my own company name:
Warrior Longbow Co.
I will probably not shoot recurves anymore since I discovered the beauty of the longbow!!!! You should too!!

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77# 52" Texas Comanche
74# 52" Texas Comanche
68# 52" Texas Comanche
85# 58" Texas Apache

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I've only had 6 bows (all custom)since I started shooting trad equipment back in '86.

Schafer Silvertip '86
Lone Pine Longbow - 2
Kempf Kwyk Styk '97
Morrison - 2


I will never sell the Schafer that Paul built for me.Means too much to me,and it shoots unbeleivable!

I also will never sell my Kwyk Styk,IMHO the all around best shooting bow I've ever shot!!!

I can switch between the 2 without blinking because the KS grip is an exact copy of the Silvertip....

Lone Pine and Morrisons were all sold.....

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1 Schafer Silvertip RC
2 Pronghorns LB
2 Robertson Purist LB
1 Robertson Prarie Falcon RC
1 Morrison LB
1 Soveriegn Ballistik RC
4 HH LB
1 Furgeson Royal Safari made by Furgeson LB

I usually just shoot longbows anymore. My favorites are Hill, followed by the Purist. I wish I would have kept 1 of my pronghorns for hunting out of a ground blind though. They are great bows as well.

I am only going to keep 1 recurve and that is the Ballistik. It is the best recurve I have ever shot.

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4 selfbows, Acadian Woods LB , Wilderness LB,Lighting LB, Herters Rc, Geoge Nagle LB a keeper!...Winterwind RC, Jeff Massey LB my favorite! OLD Red Wing, American Archery Recurve by Art Lala....and 20 or 30 more that just didnt cut it...fixing to order a few new bows after my shoulder is 100 percent! marco#78.... [thumbsup] [bigsmyl] so many bows...so little time....

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Grwat plains 1 piece
4 Fredericks longbows
4 J.D Berry longbows.
2 superguosts
2 Robertson Vision falcons.
1 blacktail
3 javamans
1 fred Anderson Hyack
Dwyer Classic and defiant
2 ACS s
3 Stotlers
Vinson Minor Cane Dragon
Liberty Chief
1 treadway
Matlock recurve
3 salukis.
Morrison Dakota
Northwind recurve
Great Northern bushbow
Howard Hill big 5
5 widows.
Centaur.
Ancient spirits recurve
Saxon Hawk and Selkirk
3 shrews and on and on and on.Currantly shootin a Liberty and Thunderhawk and Centaur.

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Bob Lee Signature
Black Widow PMA III

The BW is a keeper.

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Bob Lee Sig. Checkmate Hunter 56" sold both of them and ordered another Bob Lee bubinga micarta and 3-sets of limbs.Last one I hope.Kip
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Bob Lee Stick Bow
Black Swan Classic Carbon
Palmer td recurve
Ed Mikuta td Recurve
Kishma Mattawoman LB
Dave Wallace Mountain Bow
Wes Martin Boo LB
Several Bears, Samicks, Hoyts and PSEs

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you don't have the time to read the list, and anyway, the keepers are

Zipper TD recurve
Jerry Pierce Choctaw

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Bighorn TD Recurve- 2
Rocky Mtn TD Recurve- 2
J.D. Berry LB
Pronghorn TD LB
Bigeast TD Recurve
Habu TD Recurve
Blacktail TD Recurve
Robertson TD Recurve
Black Widow SAII TD Recurve

Dale Dye TD Recurve...REAL close 2nd

Schafer Silvertip TD Rcurve...all-time favorite

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Ray Lyon
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Here's my list of bows owned since 1966(no wheel bows owned):

1960's
Dime store fiberglass recurve lost
Bear Golden Bear fiberglass gave away
Pearson lemonwood longbow (broke)
1970's
Browning fiberglass gave away
Bear 76'er target bow sold
Bear 76'er hunting bow sold
Darton takedown sold
1977 (custom era)
Howard Hill Tembo sold
Howard Hill Big Five don't ask
Talon longbow sold
Doug Hill longbow sold
Robertson Mystical longbow sold
Robertson Mystical longbow sold
1989
JD Berry Yaweh sold
JD Berry Yaweh (retire with small limb cracks)
1999
Super Shrew Samurai (go-to bow since 1999)
Northern Mist Ottawa Recurve (for sale)

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I'm not sure I can remember all of them anymore!

Bob Jones T/D recurve (gave to son-in-law)
Chek-Mate Firebird recurve (gave to son)
Fox reverse handle longbow (sold)
Chek-Mate Crusader longbow (sold)
Black Thunder longbow (used) (sold)
Black Thunder longbow (new) (sold)
Bill Stewart MC T/D recurve (sold)
Wapiti T/D recurve (sold)
E.T. Williams spyder carbon limbed recurve (sold)
Dale Stahl T/D recurve (sold)
Palmer T/D recurve (3) (sold)
Adcock ACS (4) (sold)
Adcock 3-PC T/D longbow (non-ACS) (sold)
Morrison ACS (2) (sold 1 traded 1)
Ed Mikuta Longbow (sold before I received it)
Longbow (2 - I can't remember the name) (Sent one back because it was way overweight and sold the second.)
Morrison T/D recurve (traded)
Marriah Thermal T/D recurve (used) (I think I traded it along with the Sauk Valley recurve for a Zebrawood Dale Stahl T/D recurve)
Sauk Valley 1-PC recurve (traded)
Dale Stahl Zebrawood T/D Recurve (sold)
Morrison Cougar longbow (sold)
Chapparal Kaibab longbow (sold)
Sweptwing T/D recurve (sold)
Horne Ridge Runner T/D recurve (sold)
Jack Howard Jet recurve (sold)
Border Black Douglas Recurve (traded for Bocote Dale Stahl T/D recurve))
Dale Stahl Bocote T/D recurve (sold)
Dale Stahl hybrid longbow (sold)
Bob Jones split limb T/D recurve*
Marriah Thermal T/D recurve (bought new and now have it back after selling it)* (traded for BW TFIV)
Bob Brown T/D Longbow (sold)
Kempf Falcon longbow* (sold)
Kempf static tipped Kwik Styk#
Predator Classic T/D recurve w/Morrison Copperhead snakeskins installed (sold)
RER Vortex longbow (sold)
Hoyt Gamemaster T/D Recurve w/Hoyt M1 carbon/foam limbs - *
BW TFIV (on its way to me in the mail)
Crooked Stic T/D longbow#

* - presently on hand and keepers
# - on order

There may be one or two more, but that's it to the best of my memory.

Bill

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Not that many customs...
Aspen "Elite" longbow
Aspen "Classic" longbow
Osage selfbow (by Bob at Silver Arrow)
Osage selfbow (made in Missouri)

Blue Ridge "classic" longbow--this is the bow I would never sell.. Too special, it was my first custom and shoots exactly where I am looking.

Black Widow PSA III (being produced now)

I have had too many production bows to remember.

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