Too many bows not being used...

[tyu888]

Got my new BW PLX-Osage last week.  Now, Other bows are not being used anymore. Just wonder what you all do with your extra toys if you do not want to part with them....

[Stumpkiller]

Hang them on the wall and look at them.  

I usually shoot them all at least annually.  Sometimes they are out as loaners.

[Converml]

One good suggestion I've found I like, is letting others help keep them from just laying around. I'll pm my address to you    and help with your dilemma. Or you can get another rack but I opt for the former. Take care merle

My bow room was looking like the Noah's Ark for longbows until last year.  I had matching sets of a number of bows.  i went out shot them all and made choices of which ones of each pair i liked and why. then gave away the others. I still have two equal weight Robertsons but they are of different handle and limb materials and left and right handed.  Now all my other bows are at least now individuals.  Watch the man that just shoots one bow for many years with no changes, he more than likely knows how to use use it.

[cacciatore]

I agree with pavan about one bow man.said that I have a bow that I shoot the most at any distance,then other 3-6 bows that I shoot the same day.During the year I use everyone of my 90 loved along my 5 or 6 favourites.I keep my shooting with the different bows inside the 15 yards so there is little difference and it doesn't chance the way I shoot my to go bow.

[Night Wing]

I only have two recurves and I play no favorites. I shoot both of them equally time wise even though the 37# bow is my favorite.

[Pointer]

Same issue here...seems I only shoot my Bear TD or one of my Wings from the '60s...I just gave my brother 2 of my Kodiaks...a '64 and '68 any my nephew a Blacktail...he and my nephew loved them and shot them really well...if it gets them to stick with trad archery its a good thing..

[Plumber]

dust them once a week/

[Killdeer]

I am hoarding them to keep demand high.

Killdeer  

[David Mitchell]

I'm with you Killie.  

I have a friend that bought a Super K the first year they came out.  It was getting beat up after so many years of use and thought that I could give him one of the longbows i gave away last year.  he bought, at a garage sale, another Super K that was in perfect condition and same poundage, that was two years newer than the one he had.  I will not get into the $20 he paid for it.

[illianabowhntr67]

Don't have this problem wish I did.Me and my old kodiak hunter are inseperable.I do have a couple longbows that may go up for sale.

[coaster500]

They're my hedge against inflation?

[copperhead95]

decoration. haha we use our extras for teaching people about archery, and the heavy ones for fun shooting.

[Gordon martiniuk]

I have that same problem I consider them a art form ,I am a Bowholic , that was easy , but truely would you pass up on a working piece of art  

[snakebit40]

Hey I'm new to trad. Don't you guys want to give somebody some bows to help get them started                 but really I would help you out      I'm starting my collection too. I only have three and my wife thinks I have a problem!

[Gene Gillis]

Having so many bows that you don't use them all is simply part of the traditional bow DISEASE.  It simply never seems to go away. Good day and hope it gets better for you, because I haven't .

[sawtoothscream]

i traded one i didnt use much to try something else and the rst i look at, every so often i will fling some arrows.  when my custom comes i have a feeling a few bows wont see much action for some time

[Blackstick]

When the dollar gets devalued and the economy tanks, I will use mine for barter material.

[Red Beastmaster]

I switch bows every few days and only settle on one for the duration of deer season.