Just one bow? or many?

[Blackstick]

Too many!  

[Steelhead]

I love bows and kinda collect them.I started out as a one/two bow guy pretty much along time ago.I was tight with those 2 bows.A longbow  and recurve.I got deeper into it and  usually have around 10 bows and buy, trade and sell them as a hobby more or less.I enjoy them from a aesthetic,artistic and functional standpoint.I shoot all the ones I have descently.Just Before hunting season starts and until the end of hunting season I am pretty much a one bow guy though.

[amar911]

I have about 4 dozen and probably ought to sell some.

Allan

[Thumper Dunker]

Never too many bows or guns ,fishing rods. If I had more money 4x4 trucks.ect ect. I have two that I can shoot good any time and two more that takes me maybe five minute to remember how they shoot. I sometimes use one bow in the morning and another in the afternoon.

[Jmatt1957]

Did that very thing this year. have owned many different bows but when it came time to hunt always ended up shooting my Wapiti made by Kieth Chastan. this spring started trading ended up with 3 wapitis 2 62" 52@28 and one 58" 54@ 28. all have the same grip and shoot the same arrow set up.

[Gray Buffalo]

I have at least 24 shooting bows but when I hunt it's my St. Joe River I grab. Best shooting bow I ever had.

[Frenchymanny]

I am following a one bow a year buying policy.
They are all from the same bowyer though

F-Manny

[Sam McMichael]

I have numerous bows but tend to hunt with only a couple. But, as for selling off the others - NEVER. The only bow I ever sold off has turned out to be the bow I handled best and truly wish could be purchased again.

[AkDan]

I only have one I shoot regularly but I do own quite a few.  I hate selling them honestly but need money in a pinch I'll let one go.  

I would recommend if you find a bow you like trying to get a 2nd or 3rd as backup!  I have 3 all the same.  Learned a hard lesson after my last go to cracked....trying to jump into a replacement a month before a sheep hunt can really sap ya when they shoot nothing alike!

[akaboomer]

I have just one. I have had more than just a couple, but when my first daughter was born and had long stay in the NICU money got tight. I sold all of them. I was able to buy the "one" back. I shoot it better than the others. Of the ones that got away my Crow Creek Black Feather is missed most.

Now I am in no financial position to get another. I have considered offering a custom knife or two in trade on the classifieds but don't know if that would work.

Chris

[ksbowman]

I have 30 some bows, but I make sure that I concentrate on shooting one certain bow for the last couple months before hunting season and I always have a backup that shoots just the same.

[Mike Theis]

I have many - like potato chips - you can't stop at just one.

[sawtoothscream]

thought about it but they all shoot so good and have there place.  the titan is just a nice shooter then very accurate for 3d shooting and hunting.  the hunterbow is just a really nice tree stand bow for me and I seem to shoot it the best out of the tree stand there for its my main hunter,  the omega is a power house and also very accurate and can go both ways.  IDk just like them all to much to let them go lol.  I just stick with my main bow i intend on using. like lately the hunterbow has been the only bow I really shoot besides me taking out the titan the other day. when summer comes around its all titan for the most part.

[far rider]

Hill Halfbreed

[Bowhunter4life]

I've widdled down to two styles of bows...  Big Jim and Jim Reynolds (Thunderchild and MOAB).  I've got several Thunderchilds and two MOABs...  They are the bows that fit me the best, and I've got a variance of weights for different critters I take after... All shoot very similar to each other so switching between bows isn't a problem.

[JRY309]

I believe if you have good form and your bows are tuned well you can shoot many different bows.

[daniel boon]

I had an even dozen, a full bow rack. Want another one, so I sold one to make room,and another could be going shortly.
 The other day was in the shed, and for some reason made another bow rack?  

[Flying Dutchman]

I own 3 bows now:

- A Caribow Peregrine
- Another Caribow Peregrine
- A Whippenstick Phoenix

[Brianlocal3]

Most I have had at once was 6. I was really only shootig two of them. I have spend a good part of the year figuring out what fits me best and what I prefer in weight, length and bow design.  

And by nature I do not keep things around that do not get used very often. Im not a collector, nor do pretty things keep my eye for long. I am more of a utilitarian type.

I have settled in the very mild D/R bows with narrow limbs and deep cores.  With that said I have sold off all bows ( NM whisper is for sale) except for my NM superior and my Earl Hoyt Trophy longbow. Both 66" one 55 and one 56@ 28".

[Stumpkiller]

I only ever shoot one bow at a time.    :D  


I went maybe 10 years with the last bow and I'm into the third year with my current shooter.  I think it's not a bad idea to stick to one for six month prior and all during the deer season - but that's just me.  ;-)