Sitting in Caseys drinking hot chocolate with two friends, one received the Big River Hill style, slightly altered in the grip, and the other the Big 5, slightly altered in the grip, but both with Chad strings, they do that irritating iPhone thing nonstop. One is always reading TG Hill stuff. Then a compound hunter joins us and starts in on his iPhone, looking at what they were looking at and asks "What makes one longbow better than another, they look all the same to me." The Big River shooter, declares that maybe some batches are better at one time than others. Batches? Then I tried and failed to answer, because in the case of the Big 5, which I did not think fit me at all, a bowstring change turned out to be the great equalizer. If all it takes is a change in bow strings, really, what makes one longbow better than another?