I love both, recurves and longbows. Depending on the year, you might catch me with either weapon in my hand during Deer season. I tend to mess around with both during the spring and summer and then settle on my bow of choice for Deer hunting season as the end of summer comes. this year I've been hunting with a Grayling era Kodiak Magnum, exclusively on the ground. When our bow season ends tomorrow, I will hang up the recurve and go to the Longbow entirely and chase squirrels and bunnies around for the remainder of small game season.
All that being said, I love the apparent simplicity of design of the longbow, the light weight, the look, the feel, the virtually silent way it shoots, but most of all I think the longbow has a tendency to boil things down to their simplest form.
I think Mudd said it very well, "I found that it's not so much how the bow feels as much as it is how the bow makes me feel". Well put Mudd and very much the way i feel about the Longbow.