Help me pick a new bow????

[David Yukon]

How long are you ready to wait? some of the bowyer mantion above have prety long waiting list... Good luck with you search... keep us posted on your choice!

[Rob DiStefano]

Originally posted by Caleb the bow breaker:
...  I hesitate to post this thread because I am pretty sure you guys are just going to make the choice more difficult

Caleb

[awbowman]

Toelke or dryad

Both great bows, but try to shoot one before and get a feel for the grips.

[EastTexasRedneck]

Bob Lee 54" one piece recurve

[owlbait]

Two Tracks, Zipper, Stalker. Reasonable price, reasonable delivery time, great performance, great bowyers to deal with. Good luck!

[Rob DiStefano]

butt seriously ...

with a long 29.5" draw, there isn't a shortish 58" or so recurve around that won't be as smooth as a 62" or longer curved stick.  that's the plain physics of it all, so the final questions you need to answer YERSELF are -

1) do i want smoothness of draw and stability of the shot, or is compactness and manueverability more important for how i hunt and my hunt venues, and can i live with some string pinch at full draw?

2) after answering #1, you can move on to - what bowyer, what holding weight/woods/colors/etc, and how much of a loan will i need to float?   :D

[grayfeather]

I would look at Rainy Day bows and Legend Bows, both sponsers.

[gvdocholiday]

I have to throw in my experience with St Joe River bows.

I have a 56" recurve of theirs that I absolutely love.  It's a stupid simple design and that's what I love.  Very quiet and is a great point and shoot bow.  Seems to hit exactly where I'm looking, no stack, and very smooth.  It's the shortest bow I've ever owned and it's also the best shooting and most forgiving.   Even more so than all of the ILF rigs I've played with over the last couple of years.

I'd cut the top off the blind and use a longbow for both, but that's just me.  I wonder how some of the Lost Creeks would work at your draw.

[justracey]

http://tradgang.com/noncgi/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=109988;p=1#000000

Caleb here is a thread about Cliff Huntington's Harvest with one of our 56" Recurves

[emfunk]

Caleb, I currently own one of St Joes 56" inch recurves and couldn't be happier with it, compact enough for any tree stand or blind. Very quick and forgiving shooter. The best thing about this purchase is the people that are behind making this great bow, Dave and Tracey are 2nd to none and will help you throughout the whole process.

[Shortlongbow]

I recently obtained a Toelke take down recurve. It's 56", 57"@27". It's very smooth and stable for a short curve. A friend with a 29.5" draw even liked it. If I was in the market for a new bow I would talk with Dan Toelke about the lynx.

[countrygirl]

I love love love my Gene Sanders Evolution 52 inch bow.  Mine is 52 @ 28 and I draw about about 25 inches.  This bow packs a punch and is great in the tree stand.  It is also a very nice looking bow and starts around 450 and dressed out like mine is 600.  It is deadly quiet too.  Gene Sanders is in Dallas Georgia.  Rick Johnson has two of these and I shot them so well I ordered one of the exact same weight. We chronographed some bows in the yard a few months ago and the bows similar in speed were ACS.

[Arwin]

Originally posted by emfunk:
Caleb, I currently own one of St Joes 56" inch recurves and couldn't be happier with it, compact enough for any tree stand or blind. Very quick and forgiving shooter. The best thing about this purchase is the people that are behind making this great bow, Dave and Tracey are 2nd to none and will help you throughout the whole process.

 Here is the 56 inch curve:
 

 Here is the 58 inch longbow: