Need Advice

[Liquid Courage]

I have the Martin Hunter 60#@28, very nice bow. If I did it again I would get it at 55#, like my Blacktail. The smoothness of the Martin Hunter is nice, almost as smooth as the Blacktail, which is saying something given the 2x price difference. I like the wood in the Martin Hunter over the Bear bows which is partly why I chose it. Bubinga and Shedua with decent grain and a decent finish. I did shoot a Kodiak and it is similar, but the Hunter seemed smoother to me. I agree with the posts on finding a used one. Many very nice bows out there that have not seen much use.
On another note I have bare shafted about 6 different brands/types of arrows out of both recurves and I have found the first thing is to build out your side plate, I use two bear side plates. Found that both bows like 2219's cut to 29.5" with 200 grain points. I have to chrono them one day as the 5# difference btwn the two bows is not at all noticeable in arrow speed/tragectory. Just thought I would pass on my arrow results, may help or it may not. Every bow is different.

[Muttly]

Mike at Maddog is great, wouldn't be a bad idea to give him a call,see what he might suggest.. Longer draw length, start running into string pinch with shorter bows. Lot more fun to shoot when the lower finger isn't going numb..
Kegan, builds Omega bows, could also build you a r/d long bow, 64 or 66", for around, I think, 350 or thereabouts, sposed to be fast bows, nice lines..

[Archer1977]

Dwyer makes some longbows for $495. Very nice bows.