Longbow Man VS Recurve Guy

[SpeRo]

This is a subject that has been discussed more than once, I am aware, and perhaps there is not much point in debating the advantages and disadvantages of each, but I had the discussion again today with my father who is a fanatical longbowman. I would have liked to do a sort of survey of all the active members of the forum in order to know who is in the majority in 2024.

Avoiding pragmatism, would be a contradiction in terms because otherwise we would all be hunting with a rifle or a coumpound.

If some have practiced both extensively and want to do their analyses, it’s always enriching!


Pity that on the forum the functionality to create polls does not exist. So I suggest you write recurve or longbow. Next Sunday the winner will be declared, I will post the result of the poll in the topic.

For my part it's recurve!

[A Lex]

Longbow ..... 

[8upbowhunter]

Longbow

[Bowsey Wails]

Longbow

[Pine]

Longbow 

[MnFn]

I love the idea of shooting a longbow and have had a few, and now have only one.
But I grew up shooting a recurve and for 59 years I’ve had at least one recurve in the house, so…

Recurve

[Maclean]

Well  ... I used to be longbow only for thirty plus years. And then in the last five months I acquired two fine recurves, my first ever, and I absolutely love them. So now I shoot both longbows and recurves.   

[DGW]

Longbow for hunting!    But also have some recurves I still enjoy shooting.

[durp]

Longbow

[Orion]

I'm down to two types of bows in my stable -- Hill style longbows and Bear TDs.  I shoot and hunt with both. If I had to pick one, it would be the longbow. 

[trad_bowhunter1965]

Like Marv Clyncke book "Son of a Longbow"

[dnovo]

Longbows!!

[Grumpyfoot]

Recurve.

I have one longbow, I'm just more accurate with the recurves

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[huckbuck]

I shoot a hybrid, best of both worlds

[Trenton G.]

Longbows are fun but I prefer recurves.

[Pat B]

I bought my first trad bow in the late 1980s, it was a take down recurve. I bought it because I thought a recurve was cool. About 10 years later I bought a longbow, a Treadway mild R/D longbow. I was always told that a recurve shot better and if you were used to a recurve a longbow would be more difficult to shoot...NOT! At least for me a longbow was way easier for me to shoot accurately and I still feel that way.
 I build and shoot mostly selfbows anymore and as with glass bows I even though I build both longbow and recurve selfbows I shoot the longbows(straight limbs or slightly reflexed) way better than I shoot recurves.

[wahoo]

longbow

[artifaker1]

both .....

[Bowguy67]

Mostly I shoot longbows, hybrids second

[Chris04]

Longbow