Unstrung the recurve today,maybe for good!

[Terry Green]

Originally posted by Bowwild:
This topic is one of the reasons I wouldn't dare to even try a longbow.  I don't trust me.  

I don't want NOT to love my curves!

TOO FUNNY....I hunted the other morning with my recurve in a stand...it got really windy, and so I decided after an hour and a half to go for a walk through the big pine lot that was behind me.  BUT, I walked back to the truck 1st and got my longbow!!!

I just don't like walking with my recurves at all.  BTW, it was a good call, saw 11 deer in that thicket, 5 of them bucks.

[Ric O'Shay]

It's not that I don't want to NOT love my recurves, it is simply that I found my comfort zone with the longbow. My Massie Model "M" gets exercised a couple times a year. After each session, it comes apart and goes back into the Kathy Kelly case then  back in the chest of drawers where it safely rests until the next urge is flung upon me. That's the way it has been now for the last 7 or 8 years.

Danny

[reddogge]

Package that nasty old recurve up and mail it to me.  I'll pay postage.  They are no good anyway.

[straitera]

The Dakota turns heads. LB's only for me over 3 decades straight. It's a fascination & it's fun! Best of luck.

[Bobhat]

Yep,  I haven't gone back to my recurves since I got my Whip a few years back.  Some suggest longbows can be mroe difficult but I found the opposite to be true.  It feels much more natural to me.

[DEATHMASTER]

With the handles of the long bows now they are easy to get consistant with them.

I love how easy a long bow strings and how quiet they are.
BUT, I love the looks of my recurve also.
Good to have choices.

[greyghost]

Change is good.


Earl

[buckeye_hunter]

I'm willing to switch to a longcurve.....

[Cool Arrow]

I been traditional for a long long time. shot em both ,and own a whole bunch of each. The last three years I discovered the Shrew. I now own a long one, a short one, and a mid size one. They turn out to be the Holy Grail I been huntin for. I'll be shootin them till I'm horizontal.
Larry

[bad arrow]

Good luck and great fun with your new longbow. Its a beaut!....Phil

[leatherneck]

Yea, it may just be a phase, but I'm enjoying shooting the longbow right now. I love the light weight feel of it.

Not to worry biggster, I'm not selling anything yet. The longbow must pass the trials of missing those piggies at that dentist fellows place.

[leatherneck]

Originally posted by Jon Stewart:
Still got that "jarhead" haircut I see, lol

Since the day I got out back in 1987.

[KYArcher]

Nothing like the feel of a Good Longbow! .....KY

[trad_bowhunter1965]

I bought my Pronghorn Longbow to go to a the Longbow Safari, and every since I got it is all I shoot and it is sweet shooter, my big problem is that I have a Blacktail Recurve on order.

[Night Wing]

I'm the opposite. I can't get used to a long bow. They don't feel like my recurves and I don't shoot them as well as I do my recurves. I shot a 68" Belcher "Longhorn" hybrid longbow for 2 years, but ended up selling it to another TGer on here. He loves the Longhorn.

[snow leopard]

i embraced longbows also about 3 years ago. still like recurves, but prefer longbows now.

[Tajue17]

I changed to recurves maybe 7yrs ago,, after getting to use Hope for a month I fell in love with the longbow again,,, people above who say hang on to the recurves are right,  I used to shoot longbows, had a morrison dakota, Chinook, ridgerunner, 2 widows, a cherokee mag Elburg, Green mountain, and just ordered a MOAB before they where even on the website yet,, once the Moab came I didn't even shoot it I sold it that night and within a week every longbow was gone and replaced by recurves,,,,,, now I'm regretting that so hang on to all your bows.

[njloco]

I bought my first LB this year at ETAR, use to shoot a recurve (1957-1974)before going to the dark side in 96. Got really good with it for this hunting season, then realized how pretty it is, and figured it would be harder to shoot out of a treestand, and it might get all marked up walking through the woods. So I bought a recurve and hunted with it, shoots really good, shot it a lot since about Sept. got really really good with it, now that the bucks are dropping their racks I figured I'd take out the LB, haven't shot it since August.

Wouldn't you know it, my first ever, true one arrow stuck in the other Robinhood and the first sticking into the bulls eye, expensive shot but worth it, and done with my too pretty to take into the woods Leon Stewart long bow.

I guess I'm lucky as I seem to be able to go from one to the other without much trouble.

Merry/happy to all

[leatherneck]

I went out in the spotlight and was hitting bulls tonight. I'm zoning in with these longbows guys. I see a kill in the near future. Maybe widshful thinking, but next week will find me in a stand with a buck tag left. I have a few pics of a nice one I'd love to stick. Maybe wishful thinking but I got a feeling.

[legends1]

So why not just shoot'm all!