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Author Topic: Longbow Man VS Recurve Guy  (Read 4302 times)

Offline two4hooking

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Re: Longbow Man VS Recurve Guy
« Reply #40 on: April 23, 2024, 07:40:47 AM »
Long longbow

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Re: Longbow Man VS Recurve Guy
« Reply #41 on: April 23, 2024, 08:47:05 AM »
Both, mostly recurve, but willing to put more time into longbow.

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Re: Longbow Man VS Recurve Guy
« Reply #42 on: April 23, 2024, 09:01:13 AM »
recurve for 3d, longbow for hunting.
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Re: Longbow Man VS Recurve Guy
« Reply #43 on: April 23, 2024, 09:27:42 AM »
Gentlemen, really happy that you are participating but it's a vote to bring out the majority at the moment, some of you say both... :knothead: :campfire:
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Re: Longbow Man VS Recurve Guy
« Reply #44 on: April 23, 2024, 09:36:21 AM »
Have shot both but its Longbow for me.
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Re: Longbow Man VS Recurve Guy
« Reply #45 on: April 23, 2024, 01:31:02 PM »
I found where to enable polls in the system....

I've killed a lot with both, but I'm a longbow guy for sure.
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Re: Longbow Man VS Recurve Guy
« Reply #46 on: April 23, 2024, 01:55:05 PM »
No chance could I choose. BOTH.

Specifically, my 3 perfect bows are a Northern Mist Ramer, A Black Widow PCH, and a Shrew Classic Hunter.
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Re: Longbow Man VS Recurve Guy
« Reply #47 on: April 23, 2024, 01:57:25 PM »
I found where to enable polls in the system....

I've killed a lot with both, but I'm a longbow guy for sure.

Oh great! It will probably be necessary to make an explanatory topic a bit like for the images :campfire:
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Re: Longbow Man VS Recurve Guy
« Reply #48 on: April 23, 2024, 03:03:44 PM »
Longbow for me
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Re: Longbow Man VS Recurve Guy
« Reply #49 on: April 23, 2024, 08:44:45 PM »
  Recurve.

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Re: Longbow Man VS Recurve Guy
« Reply #50 on: April 23, 2024, 10:28:11 PM »
This Paul Bunyan 100, 50# Fiberglas bow is really surprising me.  I'm still a D/R longbow fan.
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Re: Longbow Man VS Recurve Guy
« Reply #51 on: April 25, 2024, 08:08:34 AM »
Recurve for me.

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Re: Longbow Man VS Recurve Guy
« Reply #52 on: April 25, 2024, 08:33:36 AM »
longbow
caught between:If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it and can’t leave well enough alone.

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Re: Longbow Man VS Recurve Guy
« Reply #53 on: April 25, 2024, 03:33:46 PM »
ASL

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Re: Longbow Man VS Recurve Guy
« Reply #54 on: April 28, 2024, 04:22:21 AM »
End of survey!

I didn't expect such a strong majority for longbows but it's interesting. Thank you for participating. :campfire:




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Re: Longbow Man VS Recurve Guy
« Reply #55 on: April 29, 2024, 04:40:20 AM »
For a little more content, here is a Bow & Arrow article from 1963 where Howard Hill and Doug Kittredge were already debating the subject.

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Re: Longbow Man VS Recurve Guy
« Reply #56 on: April 29, 2024, 06:47:51 AM »
Wow! That magazine brings back memories. Thanks for posting!
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Re: Longbow Man VS Recurve Guy
« Reply #57 on: April 29, 2024, 10:51:23 AM »
Interesting articles.  Written in different times and conditions.  All wood bows vs more modern composite bows.  It is easy to see how the hybrid longbow came about.  Straight limbed recurves, as it were.
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Re: Longbow Man VS Recurve Guy
« Reply #58 on: April 29, 2024, 12:00:19 PM »
Interesting articles.  Written in different times and conditions.  All wood bows vs more modern composite bows.  It is easy to see how the hybrid longbow came about.  Straight limbed recurves, as it were.
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Re: Longbow Man VS Recurve Guy
« Reply #59 on: April 29, 2024, 12:06:24 PM »
I mentioned that to him at PBS San Antonio and he said, "It is amazing how you can say something of the cuff and it comes back to you."
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