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Author Topic: Starting my search for "the: one bow  (Read 348 times)

Offline Bob Stager

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Starting my search for "the: one bow
« on: January 24, 2008, 08:51:00 PM »
Tomorrow I am going to KZOO to start my search for"the" bow. I am looking to find a new bow and
stay with it.I am looking for a longbow with a semi recurve grip and about 50#@30" draw.It is
going to be a rough job to try all those bows,
but i am willing to try.  BOB
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Offline R H Clark

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Re: Starting my search for "the: one bow
« Reply #1 on: January 24, 2008, 09:38:00 PM »
Well for what it's worth here is my advice.

Get something from a bowyer or company that has a long record of standing behind their bows.

Don't settle for your second or third choice because of price.You will probably end up getting it anyway.

Don't be as concerned about speed as finding something you shoot well.

If you don't find what you are looking for just walk away.

Good luck,there are a lot of fine bows out there now days.Let us know if you find something nice.
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Offline Shaun

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Re: Starting my search for "the: one bow
« Reply #2 on: January 24, 2008, 09:48:00 PM »
I have found "the one bow" to be a moving target. Good luck and don't dawdle too long shooting each one, I'm in line right behind you and want to shoot a couple of thirty myself. See ya there.
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Offline Jeff U

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Re: Starting my search for "the: one bow
« Reply #3 on: January 24, 2008, 09:49:00 PM »
... and we'll be standing by to buy the bows that are "not the one" as they pass through your hands.

Of course, at a significant price discount to new        :bigsmyl:
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Re: Starting my search for "the: one bow
« Reply #4 on: January 24, 2008, 11:08:00 PM »
I've been looking for it for nearly 50 years, and will continue the search tomorrow at K-Zoo as well.  I am making some progress though.  I started with straight limbed longbows.  Have since shot a lot of recurves and hybrids.  However, I find myself again drawn to the mild R/D and straight limbed longbows.  Come to think of it, I've gone through this cycle several times.  As someone once said, "So many bows.  So little time."  Have fun.  See you there.
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Re: Starting my search for "the: one bow
« Reply #5 on: January 24, 2008, 11:19:00 PM »
i highly recommend trying a roy hall navajo apache or aztec longbow. i dont know where you could get one where you live but ive been looking for the one for a while and its the smoothest longbow ive ever shot. i fits the description of what your lookin for too. im just waiting on my income taxes and im getting one. i think roy hall is out of texas but im not sure.
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Offline Dick in Seattle

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Re: Starting my search for "the: one bow
« Reply #6 on: January 25, 2008, 02:38:00 AM »
>>> I am looking to find a new bow<<<

OK... I understand that...

>>> and stay with it. <<<

Now that part is a mystery... why ever would you want to do that?  So many bows... so little time...

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Re: Starting my search for "the: one bow
« Reply #7 on: January 25, 2008, 12:02:00 PM »
Lots of Luck to ya....
About the time ya find "THE" Bow and just love shootin it, another "THE" bow will pop up....
    Kinda reminds me of Women....
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Re: Starting my search for "the: one bow
« Reply #8 on: January 25, 2008, 02:44:00 PM »
Mike...are you single?

Killdeer        :rolleyes:
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Re: Starting my search for "the: one bow
« Reply #9 on: January 25, 2008, 02:58:00 PM »
How did ya guess....Killy
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Re: Starting my search for "the: one bow
« Reply #10 on: January 25, 2008, 03:08:00 PM »
I figgered if you weren't, you were workin' on it!
  :biglaugh:
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Re: Starting my search for "the: one bow
« Reply #11 on: January 25, 2008, 05:41:00 PM »
lolololol, now that's funny Killie!!!  You are quite a woman, yes you are.

I am always looking for "the one bow"! There are a lot of these I find.  lol
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Re: Starting my search for "the: one bow
« Reply #12 on: January 25, 2008, 06:24:00 PM »
Killy....
Actual if I have a Sweetie, I only need one and I treat them better than my bows....
    I hardly ever hang them from a rack and never take them out and shoot them....  :bigsmyl:
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Re: Starting my search for "the: one bow
« Reply #13 on: January 25, 2008, 06:32:00 PM »
You are a true gentleman, and a treasure, Mike.  :thumbsup:  

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Offline ber643

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Re: Starting my search for "the: one bow
« Reply #14 on: January 25, 2008, 07:20:00 PM »
Wow - Mike's on tonight ain't he   :biglaugh:   Hope he don't find himself lookin' for a new "Sweetie" tomorrow, while the rest are lookin' for new bows   ;)
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Re: Starting my search for "the: one bow
« Reply #15 on: January 25, 2008, 07:29:00 PM »
Mike you better be careful, I hear Killy is a hell of a shot and your BA**S may be the ones hanging from the rack! Not to mention she shoots a Morrison! LOL
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Re: Starting my search for "the: one bow
« Reply #16 on: January 25, 2008, 08:51:00 PM »
What started out to be a post that could never happen..."One bow"    <------ yeah right
Just gets better.
Funny stuff...
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Re: Starting my search for "the: one bow
« Reply #17 on: January 25, 2008, 10:58:00 PM »
May good fortune come your way to accomplish this goal. I'm currently debating even logging on to this site. My silvertip has now been in my posession 24hrs. and I've already caught myself looking at another bow. The shame of it all!  :knothead:    :help:
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Re: Starting my search for "the: one bow
« Reply #18 on: January 26, 2008, 02:48:00 AM »
TRUST ME!  There is no ONE bow. I know of what I speak,once you try one you gotta try more, pretty soon you are "bowed" out of house and home living in a cardboard box cause the bows have to stay in the house at a certain temp and humidity. A man can never have too many bows and the search will make you a crazy person. Stay away I say, Stay away!

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Re: Starting my search for "the: one bow
« Reply #19 on: January 26, 2008, 05:43:00 AM »
Philanderers of the Feathered Fletch.
I joined this league years ago. Faithless and faithful all at the same time.

Bows of all shapes and sizes, ages and materials line our homes like treasured memories in a photo album. The new ones come in fresh and alive, each nuance charged with bold new strokes of genius. The old are cherished for the times they represent, the archers long past who held and loved them, the glories of another age. Beheld  en masse , they are the circular continuum, and within their rawhide-hemp-linen-dacron-FF embrace we are held as in an eternal web, in our rightful place and part of the whole which will never be completed. Draw the bow, yin and yang are pulled apart, to spring back together at our release. The world is balanced anew and time leaps forth as a brightly streaking arrow, the soaring path of the hopes of Man. If the arrows stop flying, what becomes of our world? Our history forgotten, our ancesters crumble, and there is an unmeasured wobble in the future revolutions of the Earth.

Buy that One Bow, I dare you.
I  triple dog dare  you.
It's your duty.
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