How many custom bows you've had & what's your keeper?

[Ray Hammond]

you don't have the time to read the list, and anyway, the keepers are

Zipper TD recurve
Jerry Pierce Choctaw

[Stickbow98]

Bighorn TD Recurve- 2
Rocky Mtn TD Recurve- 2
J.D. Berry LB
Pronghorn TD LB
Bigeast TD Recurve
Habu TD Recurve
Blacktail TD Recurve
Robertson TD Recurve
Black Widow SAII TD Recurve

Dale Dye TD Recurve...REAL close 2nd
 
Schafer Silvertip TD Rcurve...all-time favorite

[Ray Lyon]

Here's my list of bows owned since 1966(no wheel bows owned):

1960's
Dime store fiberglass recurve lost
Bear Golden Bear fiberglass gave away
Pearson lemonwood longbow (broke)
1970's
Browning fiberglass gave away
Bear 76'er target bow sold
Bear 76'er hunting bow sold
Darton takedown sold
1977 (custom era)
Howard Hill Tembo sold
Howard Hill Big Five don't ask
Talon longbow sold
Doug Hill longbow sold
Robertson Mystical longbow sold
Robertson Mystical longbow sold
1989
JD Berry Yaweh sold
JD Berry Yaweh (retire with small limb cracks)
1999
Super Shrew Samurai (go-to bow since 1999)
Northern Mist Ottawa Recurve (for sale)

[WildmanSC]

I'm not sure I can remember all of them anymore!

Bob Jones T/D recurve (gave to son-in-law)
Chek-Mate Firebird recurve (gave to son)
Fox reverse handle longbow (sold)
Chek-Mate Crusader longbow (sold)
Black Thunder longbow (used) (sold)
Black Thunder longbow (new) (sold)
Bill Stewart MC T/D recurve (sold)
Wapiti T/D recurve (sold)
E.T. Williams spyder carbon limbed recurve (sold)
Dale Stahl T/D recurve (sold)
Palmer T/D recurve (3) (sold)
Adcock ACS (4) (sold)
Adcock 3-PC T/D longbow (non-ACS) (sold)
Morrison ACS (2) (sold 1 traded 1)
Ed Mikuta Longbow (sold before I received it)
Longbow (2 - I can't remember the name)  (Sent one back because it was way overweight and sold the second.)
Morrison T/D recurve (traded)
Marriah Thermal T/D recurve (used)  (I think I traded it along with the Sauk Valley recurve for a Zebrawood Dale Stahl T/D recurve)
Sauk Valley 1-PC recurve (traded)
Dale Stahl Zebrawood T/D Recurve (sold)
Morrison Cougar longbow (sold)
Chapparal Kaibab longbow (sold)
Sweptwing T/D recurve (sold)
Horne Ridge Runner T/D recurve (sold)
Jack Howard Jet recurve (sold)
Border Black Douglas Recurve (traded for Bocote Dale Stahl T/D recurve))
Dale Stahl Bocote T/D recurve (sold)
Dale Stahl hybrid longbow (sold)
Bob Jones split limb T/D recurve*
Marriah Thermal T/D recurve (bought new and now have it back after selling it)* (traded for BW TFIV)
Bob Brown T/D Longbow (sold)
Kempf Falcon longbow* (sold)
Kempf static tipped Kwik Styk#
Predator Classic T/D recurve w/Morrison Copperhead snakeskins installed (sold)
RER Vortex longbow (sold)
Hoyt Gamemaster T/D Recurve w/Hoyt M1 carbon/foam limbs - *
BW TFIV (on its way to me in the mail)
Crooked Stic T/D longbow#

* - presently on hand and keepers
# - on order

There may be one or two more, but that's it to the best of my memory.

Bill

[John3]

Not that many customs...
Aspen "Elite" longbow
Aspen "Classic" longbow
Osage selfbow (by Bob at Silver Arrow)
Osage selfbow (made in Missouri)

Blue Ridge "classic" longbow--this is the bow I would never sell.. Too special, it was my first custom and shoots exactly where I am looking.

Black Widow PSA III (being produced now)

I have had too many production bows to remember.

[John Nail]

My list is as long as any posted, mostly longbows. I regret not owning a Matlock when he was making 'em long and straight.
On my rack you'll always find a couple of Saxons, a few Pronghorns and at least one Fred Anderson Skookum. I keep a couple small game light draw bows, a rough one for fish, and a rainy day bow.
I've been giving selfbows away like mad, so I'm down to four of those....

[Wapiti Chaser]

Man, I got some catching up to do !!
     Keepers
     #1 Morrison Dakota
     #2 Seven Lakes ( That Shawn and Tony both had )#3 Saxon American 50lb
     #4 66 Griz
     #5 Wing Hawk ( My Dads first bow )
     #6 Howatt Ventura
     Gonners
     #1 Saxon Mongoose
     #2 Custom Longbow (Maker ?)  
     #3 Saxon American 65lb
     #4 Pearson recurve

[HARL]

Zipper Recurve
 Zipper recurve
 Abbott Longbow
 Wapiti Spike T/D longbow
 Leon Stewart Longbow
 H/H Wesley Special
 H/H Big Five
 H/H Wild Boar   Still have
 H/H wesley Special
 Morrison Longbow
 Morrison Shawnee Dakota Limbs  Still have
 Morrison Shawnee Dakota Limbs w/extra limbs S/H
 Wapiti T/D Recurve
 Tomahawk Thunderstorm Longbow
 Massie Longhorn T/D   Still have
 H/H Custom   will keep
 H/H Wesley on order  Will Keep

[centaurshooter]

martin dreamcatcher
martin saber
martin vision
2 martin savannahs
habu death adder cocobolo
habu death adder cs3
great plains wolf creek takedown
great plains one piece bamboo B model
bear takedown metal riser slide in limbs
bear stag hunter
adcock cx
centaur 56" 1 piece juniper beaut
centaur 58" takedown juniper beaut
centaur 54" legendary blue bow for son
centaur 54" black n green monster
centaur carbon on order
another centaur carbon on order
centaur bocote beaut on order
hornes combo hunter recurve
sovereign ballistik
black widow MA
black widow SA
black widow 50th anniversary
2 martin mambas
martin x-200
chaparral kaibab
black swan hibrid classic carbon
misc. damon howatts and a couple other bears through the last few years.

and there's a few others
 
the ones that will never go anywhere are the two centaur junipers, and the habu death adders.

[clintopher]

Wow...

All I've got is a Shawnee riser with Dakota limbs on order and a couple of bbo's that I made.

I like one of the bbo's but it lifted a splinter, the other two I just can't shoot.  I can't wait for Mr. Bob to call me and say my limbs are ready.

Clint

[tippit]

Heck, I guess all mine are keepers til they're sold.  My list too long to type, but I have been shooting my Morrison Shawnee & McCullough Griffin for most of my hunting.

Clint, Just got back from TXS with Bob and 1/2 the guys there were shooting Shawnees or his T/D recurves but I didn't see him working on your limbs LOL...Jeff

[Golden Hawk]

this might take awhile
2 RER Votex LB
4 Bruin T/Ds
5 Mosshorns
2 Martins
1 Staghorn
1 Black Widow
2 Cascades GH Magnums
1 chek Mate Firebird
2 Kodiak Mags
1 Browning Cobra
2 Shakespeare Super Necedahs
2 Bighorns
1 Groves Flame Hunter
I know I forgot some, I think the last time I counted them all up it was around 70.
I have a new RER one piece I'll be picking up in a couple weeks, but as you all know I love My Vortex's

[huntwisely]

All my bows are custom - I make all my self bows .... lol

Some day, I'll get a laminate bow

[clintopher]

Originally posted by tippit:


Clint, Just got back from TXS with Bob and 1/2 the guys there were shooting Shawnees or his T/D recurves but I didn't see him working on your limbs LOL...Jeff

So that's how he wants to run his business huh?...   Well I guess it's time to get on the phone and do a little complaining.  

[newell38]

too many dang bows!

[yleecoyote23]

I've only been at this trad thing for about 9 months now, but I have had 10 or 12 bows so far, I buy them, try them, then sell the ones I aint to sure about.

But the two customs I have bought I have kept, they are:

Habu TD Recurve - shoots amazingly well!!!! I shoot it the most.

Chek-Mate Crusader - this is my favorite by far, but I just can't quite shoot it as well as I would like, but I am getting better at it thanks to help from Lost Hawg and Redfeathers!!

I recently bought a Tomahawk Desert Fox that shoots pretty good, but I haven't shot it enough yet to know if it is a keeper or not.

[Redfeathers]

Help from Redfeathers and Lost Hawg    now that's funny Mr. yleecoyote23
I'm telling ya, the boy can shoot!!!

Brent

[NEArcher]

I'm new, so it's a short list.

A martin recurve I got in 1981, and it was old then.

A Java Man Tanjuvar I bought 6 months ago and is responsible for getting me into this mess.

A Bob Lee T/D Signature a month ago, the bow has given me a glimps of how good traditional gear can shoot.

I still have them all.

This summer I'm going to rework the shelf on the Tanjuvar and also see if I can make it a take down.  So I'll probably either keep it or accidentally destroy it.  In which case I'll be ordering another.

The Bob Lee will stay untill I can afford this:  http://www.morrisonarchery.com/shawnee/ShaPhoto/Shawnee/shawnee_4.htmlMorrison  

And even then it would probably stay and just be my rainy day bow.

If the Morrison shoots as good as it looks, I could be a one bow guy.

[larry]

I've probably had 20-30 different longbows and 'curves. right now the rack is kinda slim; top to bottom, my 7yr olds Mikuta longbow, Mikuta recurve (F/S BTW), DAS, BW TFX Bacote. The DAS is the one I'm shooting the most.  

[rthompson]

The ones I currently have on the rack:

Massie Longhorn (x2)
3 piece Pronghorn
Super Shrew Deluxe (bought used last December)
Centaur

I can't see myself ever letting loose of the last three.  I also have a SS Gold coming in a few weeks and another Centaur that I sent a deposit on last week.  This is my favorite thread of all time.  Showing my wife some of your bow inventories got me out of the doghouse for the Centaur I just ordered.  

Rick