Do you keep or trade/sell bows

[Wudstix]

Only bought three bows new; $350, $585, $525 respectively.  The rest I've traded/bartered for.  Probably have @$800-900 invested in the remaining 5 bows.  The first three and one or two of the others will go in my Will.  There are perhaps two that would be given pink slips if I found the right buyer.
 

[JD Page]

I've bought more than a few, but never sold one.. I have given several away to Family and Friends, that's the only way I've ever gotten rid of any.

[mjh]

 Traded a bow for some arrows.  I've gotten a few bows for free.  At lease one garage sale bow--it was $3.   Bought most of them new. Sold six or seven.  The ones I like to shoot get held on to for a long time.  Others come and go.

[Wild Bill MCP 808]

I have more than I need I have a nice Widow recurve and a nice Thunderhorn longbow I should put up I just don;t shoot them enough any more, they are just resting on the rack.
Someone could be using them I should get moving on that time is passing by.

[mangonboat]

Its a weird thing, the significance a bent stick and a string can take on. For more than 40 years I was blissfully ignorant with two bows, a Bear Grizzly and a Bear Polar. Both left handed, both 45#. I killed a ton of critters with the Grizzly and a lot of paper circles with the Polar. Then I discovered online trad archery boards. I was born into a family of bow hunters and all the great discussions and camaraderie pulled me in. I quickly learned a ton about different bowmakers, history , design theories, etc. I picked up a couple bows with 'unique' backstories, like the 2008 TradGang St. Jude Faith bow, a custom made Dryad Orion that came up on eBay of all places, and the prototype Ben Pearson Mercury Hunter, actually a modified 1965 BP Golden Sovereign Lady Mercury , 55#, the shop put together for BP's factory-sponsored and best known shooter, Jim Dougherty.  Then I discovered that I was right eye dominant, probably an after-effect of Lasix surgery. I had a 26# Howatt Ventura hanging in the basement that my Dad picked up at an auction for when and if the grandkids showed interest. So I taught myself to shoot right handed and it was off to the races. For the past decade I've bought, sold, traded, gifted, received as a gift over 100 bows, almost all of them unusual, highly-sought, or just unique. Its been hard to let go of most of the ones I've passed along, e.g. the two mentioned above, but there's also a good feeling about sending a special bow to someone who will appreciate it. I've managed to still have 40 or so hanging around,  even after equipping my family and many friends who wanted to take up archery. Most of them are unusual, some unique and some just fun. I'm hoping to retire soon and have more time for hunting, making arrows, refinishing bows and I hope to get down to a dozen or less. I sometimes miss the one-bow days: now I take 3 or 4 bows on every hunting trip and don't decide which one I'm taking out until I decide where and how I'll be hunting.