Tell me about Recurves with Longbow style grips

[Caleb the bow breaker]

Gang,

Does anybody have any experience with a recurve with a more longbow style grip.  I think some folks call them hybrid or 50's style bows.  The photos I see really catch my eye but I have never shot a longbow style grip and wonder how the transition is going to be.  I also always see the term "handshock" and I wonder how shocky the bows would be compared to my takedown and one piece recurves.  Any experience or thoughts would interest me

C

[Biathlonman]

My favorite style by far. To me they have all the best qualities of longbow and recurve in one. I've tried a bunch and the Toelke Chinook is by far my favorite.

[Scott E]

Toelke 64 super Static is my favorite. No hand shock and if you learn to relax your hand and shoot the grip the way it wants to be shot there will be no transition time.

[MnFn]

I have my Dads 1950s recurve. It is about 68" inches long with a straight grip. No dish, no locator, just straight.
I also just got a string for it from LBR and it is much easier to shoot than I would have envisioned. I like it. Much different from anything else I own, but nice. Kinda wished my Liberty had a straight grip now instead of locator grip.
Gary

[**DONOTDELETE**]

The angle of the bows grip can be shaped any way you want it on a custom bow. The trick is balancing the limbs to the pressure point being applied to the grip....... You can build a recurve bow that shoots just like a long bow, only it has a considerably smoother draw cycle.

Hand shock has nothing to do with the grip shape. It's just a matter of finding the sweet spot on your hand placement to match the limbs balance.
A custom bow matches that balance point to your prefered wrist angle.....

Check out a few of these grips. a lot of them are very low wrist allowing you to put more pressure on the thumb pad of your hand rather than the web.

 

[FerretWYO]

Love my ferrets.

[Zradix]

I HAVE AN OLD BEAR KODIAC (early 50's)..sorry caps
Grip is very straight..with a very very slight locator.
..don't care for the grip at all....just not my style

[Stump Buster]

This is an easy pick for me....


Fox Breed.


Smooth, comfortable, gentle in the hand and most natural feeling 50's style bow I've ever shot. The lines of the 50's curves are some of the classiest and iconic of all the bow styles out there! The Breed is my favorite of the ones I've tried. The one I haven't been able to try yet is the Great Northern Ghost, but I hear they are tops too!

You're going to get a bunch of replies, but you'd be missing out if you didn't attempt to find a Breed to try out at a shoot somewhere.

My first one (That now belongs to a friend who won't sell it back to me) :mad: ...
 

My second one (That isn't going anywhere...I learned my lesson) ...
 

Good luck in your search Caleb!

[Steelhead]

Theirs lots of good 50s style recurves.Handshock is not something to be concerned about in general.

If you like to shoot longbows a 50s style recurve is a good option to be a simlar match in mass weight and grip.

I like 50s style recurves with narrow deep cored limbs.

I like the Fox Breed 62 incher  alot!.I like the Holm made River Runner,Whippenstick Inferno and Toelke Chinook as well.Thier are many other nice ones.

Eric

[mahantango]

My favorite style of recurve. I love my longbows too, and it makes it easy to transition from one to the other. As long as you don't mind the low mass weight, the "50's style" recurves give up nothing to their heavier riser counterparts.

[goingoldskool]

Black Widow PSR....

It was a toss up for me, but I went with the longbow!

God bless,

Rodd

[Cavscout9753]

I like that Fox Breed. If I ever shot a recurve, that'd be the one right there. You're right, very iconic.

[Caleb the bow breaker]

Bows I have shot include. Pearson cougar, checkmate TD recurve, and rer arroyo.  Currently the arroyo is my daily driver.  How would these bows compare to the fifties recurve?  I have never had the opportunity to shoot a lonbow.