Longbows or Recurves, likes and dislikes!

[RecurveRookie]

Hey y'all, I don't know nothin' about longbows.  I have shot one recurve for about 1 1/2 years now.  Please speak your mind.  Thanks

[Stumpkiller]

Simplicity, style, the release is much more forgiving of improper or inconsistant form are just a few reasons.

But note that most of what are called "longbows" are American Flatbows and some are reflex/deflex hybrids.  About the only difference anymore are grip style and whether the tips are bendy when strung.  If the string hits the limb below the nocks it is a recurve.

[Andy Cooper]

Longbows are quieter in my experience.

[BowPlinker]

Depends on type longbow.   I shoot both the same.   But you got your old school longbows and your high tech so to speak modern longbows and recurves.  
Longbow is quieter in general but I don't notice a big difference shooting one or the other personally   But may be I just have not messed with a recurve that could wow me

[moleman]

I dont know that there are advantages, only personal choices. I prefer a longbow because of its simplistic design, and the nostalgia affiliated with it, and after 30 plus yrs of shooting one, it just feels right.
   

[Austin Brown]

For me the real gentle deflex/reflex style(i.e. Fred Anderson Skookum/older Sentman's)are much quieter and more forgiving of form errors.  I've bought and sold a bunch of different styles/lengths of both and have finally settled on this style of bow in 66-68" 58-65lbs as being the best for me.

[Roadkill]

Personal preference.

Personal preference. I am not sure if longbows are really quieter but they defintely have more of a "thud" sound where recurves tend to have more of a "twang" sound. I like the thud sound better. I also hate having to keep up with stringers and don't need one wih my longbow.

Bisch

[Thare1774]

I shoot both styles and find I shoot the longbow more consistently out of all my stickbows. But my ILF recurve tuned nicely with a plunger outshoots anything I own. I still love it all though

[BrownA5]

I have owned and shot both.  While I do have a preference for recurves I find most longbows to be more forgiving and definitely quieter.  The only exception that I have found so far is the Dale Dye I now own.  That bow is just plain quiet!!

[joe ashton]

they are like a disease, an addiction, a seductive --- well you get the  point.....  you just can't put them down.

[Gdpolk]

I just like the feel and handling of a longbow and low grip better.  I can't say that I think a longbow is a better bow than a recurve, it's just better for me and my personal preference.

[Steve Clandinin]

I shot recurves for many years and as of lately switched over to longbows.I find longbows easier to get a better release,dont need a stringer,harder to twist the limbs and so nicer to carry.

[Sixby]

What Steve said but I like both about equally well.

God bless, Steve

[Dan Adair]

It's been my experience that longbows usually run a shorter brace height than recurves, and a higher degree of snobbery.

I've tried for years to be a longbow guy, but we just don't get along.  I shoot a recurve so much better than a longbow that it's not even funny.

[Thare1774]

Originally posted by Steve Clandinin:
I shot recurves for many years and as of lately switched over to longbows.I find longbows easier to get a better release,dont need a stringer,harder to twist the limbs and so nicer to carry.

Don't let Steve fool you, I have some inside information that he just received a beautiful Widow Recurve in the post        

[Dan Adair]

Hahaha....

I KNEW it      All longbow shooters are secretly in love with a recurve.

[Terry Lightle]

What Andy said QUIET

[2hats]

I have been shootin and hunting with longbows for over twenty years and this was the first year with nothing but a recurve(BW) and I have to say it was fun and hard shootin for my short draw.On the the other hand i thought I was commiting a sin  by not having a longbow in my hand.I still like both and shoot both fairly well but it is something about a longbow that still warms your spirit..just sayin..

[Swinestalker]

I love both, but love the longbow more. No really practical reason why, just the way it is.