more forgiving, LB, or recurve?

[cacciatore]

I am simply not able to shoot the Longbow as good as my recurves,but I like to shoot it from time to time.

[zetabow]

Originally posted by dick sable:
Didn't Howard Hill once suggest that he was not a good enough archer to shoot recurve bows?

Did not Howard Hill make and sell his own brand of Longbow, why would he promote Recurves.  

[dick sable]

Very true Stephen. Good point.

[ishoot4thrills]

Okay, as far as posting the scores from the IBO 3D shoots, I believe speed comes into play there because of the unknown yardages that are shot. So, therefore, the faster bow(recurve) generally allows more room for error in the distance judging department. I'd be willing to bet the longbow scores would be better than the recurve scores if shooting indoors at spots at 20 yards. But I also believe it would be very, very close in scoring.

Quite possibly, the bow being cut just short of center(some longbows) may have something to do with it too as compared to the bow being cut to center or beyond center(recurves and some longbows) when comparing overall scoring. Possibly, the bow cut shy of center could be more critical of anchor point consistency than the center/beyond center-cut bow. I also believe the shape/size of the grip has an effect on accuracy, too.  As you can see, there are many more variables apparent than just comparing the shape of the limb tips.

[skarcher]

I always thought I shot a longbow better than a recurve until a picked up a buddy's very old recurve he found at a sale somewhere. Don't know what it is, but it's got a grip very much like my longbow and it points and shoots for me the same as my bow.

So the conclusion for me is that the limb design is very secondary to the grip shape. Works for me anyway.

[Markus77]

Originally posted by zetabow:
 

Originally posted by dick sable:
Didn't Howard Hill once suggest that he was not a good enough archer to shoot recurve bows?

Did not Howard Hill make and sell his own brand of Longbow, why would he promote Recurves.      [/b]

He made recurves to. But I think that maybe the recurves wasn´t as good and stable back then, then they are today. In the book Hunting the hard way he writes about a recurved bow he made for himself before a hunting trip, and he trained very hard with it, and shoot it very well during training, but when he was hunting with it and had to take very difficult shoots, kneeling, squating and so on he missed and lost a lot of arrows. Then he went back to camp to get his old reliable bow Grandpa and shoot well again.
 I don´t know since I haven´t shoot a recurve during difficult circumstanses and I just love longbows, but I recon that from a treestand and on stable ground it´s easier to shoot well with a recurve.

[riivioristo]

Not an expert, but the handle of the bow seems to be to me the key here. If the handle of the bow you are shooting allows your bowhand to grip the same way again and again arrows fly where you look. Otherwise its flyers and errors ...alleast to me. I shoot both LB and Recurves all the time.

[thunder1]

I shoot my recurve a lot better than my longbow.

[SteveB]

I'd be willing to bet the longbow scores would be better than the recurve scores if shooting indoors at spots at 20 yards.  

Might want to look at some tournament scores before placing that bet and losing your money  

[SL]

I think it depends on what you're selling.  :D  
SL

[foamkiller]

When talking about the IBO longbow class vs TRD & RU you must remember.....1)Longbow shoots wood arrows while TRD/RU can use any arrow 2) Longbow shoots a 25yd max while TRD/RU shoot 30 yd max. They shoot the same courses but different stakes(Last year at the 2nd leg of the National triple crown I shot with 2 longbow shooters on a couple of targets they shot as much as 12 yards less than I did)

[Jason R. Wesbrock]

The NFAA has only one stickbow class, Traditional. Just for the sake of discussion, I don't recall ever hearing of anyone winning a major indoor shoot in the traditional class with a longbow.

[zetabow]

When I lived in UK we had a Trad Recurve class that shot wooden arrows, I've outshot this class 7 or 8 times in National tourneys including Indoors and only two other people have managed to do this, even when equipment is the same on paper the Recurve still has the edge over Longbow.

When it comes to IFAA Recurve Bowhunter or Barebow it hard for me to even get close to the top shooters, arrows do make a difference.

[Ryan32]

All i know is that my long bow ( the only trad bow i have) becomes more and more forgiving the more i practise with it