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Online BUCKY

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Your main and backup bow
« on: May 05, 2010, 08:47:00 PM »
Just wondering what most of you shoot as your main bow and backup bow.Are they identical,same style,longbow or recurve,same length,weight?I'm shooting a 58" 46#@26"Lost Creek longbow with my backup being a Thunderstick Mag longbow 58"48#@26".

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Re: Your main and backup bow
« Reply #1 on: May 05, 2010, 08:56:00 PM »
I have a Quinn stallion, 60", #50@ 28, deadly. I have a twin to it and 6 extra sets of limbs, #47-50#, 4  strings , D-97, made up, shot in and laying in wait! All shoot the same for me, grab one and go!
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Re: Your main and backup bow
« Reply #2 on: May 05, 2010, 09:01:00 PM »
I shoot a HH Wesley Special at 65# and just got another one of the same draw weight, so I guess that will become my main backup. Previously, I considered my Deathwish at 59# and my Kolomi at 53# to be equal backups. All are 68" long except the Kolomi at 66".
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Re: Your main and backup bow
« Reply #3 on: May 05, 2010, 09:06:00 PM »
My back up bow is same as my go to bow, it took me 11 years to find that perfect bow,ordered new last spring! I just bought a back up off a fellow tganger a month ago, same specs just different woods! Now I have two kajika stiks!
1- kajika stik combo,RC 55@28/LONGBOW 57@28 Both W/diamondback skins

1- monarch longbow royal 68" 59@28
1- bear kodak hunter-44@28

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Re: Your main and backup bow
« Reply #4 on: May 05, 2010, 09:13:00 PM »
My primary bow is a Habu 64" 60# at 29"; back up is my primary this year...Jeffery Royal Hunter 62" 60# @28". (Though I do have a special Robertson on the way soon  :)  )

I can shoot same arrows in both setups....though Habu shoots a bit flatter past 20yds.

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Re: Your main and backup bow
« Reply #5 on: May 05, 2010, 09:13:00 PM »
My main bow is my 60" 50* @ 27" Zona Custom T/D Recurve.

My back up is a toss up really:
60" 51* @ 27" Hoyt Dorado.
62" 47* @ 27" Sky Sky Hawk "a real Earl Hoyt" which is quickly becoming my second go to bow.
Zona Custom Recurve: 60" 49# @ 27.5".
Sky Sky Hawk Recurve: 60" 47# @ 27.5".
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Re: Your main and backup bow
« Reply #6 on: May 05, 2010, 09:33:00 PM »
I've got a lot of backup bows.  I need a backup bank account.  H

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Re: Your main and backup bow
« Reply #7 on: May 05, 2010, 09:35:00 PM »
Bear Kodiak hunter, Elburg Jaguar Special backup.

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Re: Your main and backup bow
« Reply #8 on: May 05, 2010, 09:59:00 PM »
i really only hunt with  Hill style bows and they are either reflexed and 68" long or with a touch of string follow at 66" ... so i always have two of each , always same specs , on hand when i'm hunting .
well sometimes three...
or four.......
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Re: Your main and backup bow
« Reply #9 on: May 05, 2010, 10:06:00 PM »
PSA V 62" 47@27 and PSA III 58" [email protected] ever I shoot the other is my backup.  I'll probably be hunting with the 57# this fall.

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Re: Your main and backup bow
« Reply #10 on: May 05, 2010, 10:10:00 PM »
Go to is now my 60" 51#@28 GN Ghost. I have so many backups that I should relieve some weight from the wall. They all shoot good enough to be GOTO bows.
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Re: Your main and backup bow
« Reply #11 on: May 05, 2010, 10:16:00 PM »
2 identical 50# 62" ACS CX.

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Re: Your main and backup bow
« Reply #12 on: May 05, 2010, 10:18:00 PM »
Yep, got to have a back up even if you never will need it.

This TallTines is going to be #1 for a long, LONG time:

 


It is an exact match to the top one here when the hunt is not too rugged:

 


And I've got this one in a lighter weight for when I am an old man   ;)  

 

 

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Re: Your main and backup bow
« Reply #13 on: May 05, 2010, 10:39:00 PM »
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Re: Your main and backup bow
« Reply #14 on: May 05, 2010, 10:50:00 PM »
My primary 3D bow is the one I just finished.  The previous 9 on the pegs and the one I'm building are the backups....  they're all light, 22# to 32"

For hunting I built a primary that's 42# 62" two piece longbow (kind of short but so is my draw)  and an almost matching 38#
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Re: Your main and backup bow
« Reply #15 on: May 05, 2010, 11:15:00 PM »
currently a 60@28 60" widow psaIII recurve as my go to/huntin/3-d stump whatever bow

 and a widow 60@28 PLV 64" TD longbow as back up or just when I feel like shootin a longbow ..bow.. both shoot very much alike.  
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Re: Your main and backup bow
« Reply #16 on: May 05, 2010, 11:21:00 PM »
I have two 66" Blacktail take down recurves that feel the same and I shoot both equally well so I really don't really have a backup. One is 42# and the other is 37#.
Blacktail TD Recurve: 66", 42# @ 30". Arrow: 32", 2212. PW: 75 Grains. AW: 421 Grains. GPP: 10.02
Blacktail TD Recurve: 66", 37# @ 30". Arrow: 32", 2212. PW: 75 Grains. AW: 421 Grains. GPP: 11.37

Offline Mark 507

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Re: Your main and backup bow
« Reply #17 on: May 05, 2010, 11:27:00 PM »
Main hunting bow:Ferguson Z58 71#@29

Back up:Ferguson Z64 75#@28

Both shoot a 2219 30" W/125 gr magnus stingers.

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Re: Your main and backup bow
« Reply #18 on: May 06, 2010, 03:42:00 AM »
Main bow right now is a Morrison Shawnee LB 56" 56@28.
Back up is a Mikuta 3 piece TD recurve 62" 54@28.
This will change as I just ordered a NAT Lost Creek longbow 54" 50@26.

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Re: Your main and backup bow
« Reply #19 on: May 06, 2010, 06:18:00 AM »
Main bow is a Border Griffon GL longbow 64", 62#@27. My backup is a Border Black Douglas "Swift" recurve 60", 61#@28. I have an identical Border recurve when the Swift was my primary.
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