What are we shooting Longbows or Recurves???

[Kenneth]

I can shoot a recurve better at a target but when an animal comes into range I'm a much better shot with a longbow.  I don't know if it's a mental thing or what but it has caused me to give up recurves and stick with my longbows.

[eric-thor]

i have and can shoot both but i love the hybred longbow. its just poetic to me. recurves are no doubt pretty but a longbow is simple elegance.      

A right hand 51pound juniper Pearce Point Robertson longbow and a left hand 51 pound myrtle on myrtle really pretty Robertson longbow. I have others, but those are the only two I will be using this year.

[Curveman]

For me, for now, it's gotta be a broom handled, continuous "D" shaped (at least when strung), longbow! Not cut to center, let alone past it. Pistol grip hybrids don't count as longbows to me. (I don't care about that "if the string doesn't touch the limb" nonsense; that's an arbitrary definition at best and one I won't subscribe to).        I generally lump such bows in the recurve class)!            Don't get me wrong-I love recurves, hybrids, selfbows, but I LOVE this longbow I've been shooting and I don't care that it was harder to learn to shoot well and it's not as forgiving as my recurves-THAT'S part of the FUN/Romance of "real longbows!" as I like/define them!      :D

[Flying Dutchman]

No doubt: hybrid longbow.

[Elk whisperer]

Longbows forever- Howard

[Soilarch]

One of each. A Pittsley Predator and a Sentman R/D.

I prefer which ever one I'm more accurate with.


...which is usually neither    

[Bryan Burkhardt]

August 2010 - Bear A Handle Takedown for Antelope in Colorado

September 2010 - Cari-bow Takedown Longbow for Moose & Caribou in Alaska

October - December 2010 - Different Recurve (TBD) for Whitetail in Ohio and Michigan

[Frank V]

Howard Hill Big 5!  
Frank

[John3]

98% of the time Longbow... Quiet, lightweight and deadly..!

[Shifting Shadow]

Red Tailed Hawk, I shoot both recurves and longbows about the same in the woods.  For 3-D, I have more confidence shooting recurves.

[Dalgo]

I'm too new at this.  Right now it looks like a long bow.  Love how the longbow feels.  Too early in the year to tell though.  Probably the long bow. Decisions, decisions......

[lpcjon2]

Longbow,did I say longbow I meant longbow.I did get to shoot a recurve recently and enjoyed it,But I like feel and the punch of the longbow.IMHO

[Irish]

I love shooting many kinds of bows, both longbows and recurves.   But if I can have only one bow, it's a recurve - and in my case a Widow.

[Red Tailed Hawk]

It's looking like the Longbows are winning  

[Friend]

How wonderful it is to have a choice and the right to have our own opinion.

[BCWV]

Longbow.

[cahaba]

Straight Limb deep cored longbow with a straight handle. It is deadly accurate. I never devoted enough time to shoot my recurve that well so I sold it.

[jackdaw]

sorry guys....Ed Holcomb ruined me! Have a hard time giving up the speed and power of a good recurve! Love the asthetics and smoothness of the longbows....but the elegant grace and grace of a 59" kodiak styled recurve.....I'm jaded...john

[Pops]

I shoot both