How many bows have you owned?

[ed cowden]

I am 58 and have been shooting since I was about 6. I started to make a list of all the bows I can remember owning and have come up with 65 so far. And you know I can not pick only one as my favorite. Seems as I can only remember the best shots I have made with some of them. None are really ones I would say was the best bow for me. So I guess that is why I am still looking. I would like to find one I can pick up and say I do not need any other bow. Do you have any that you can say this is the one, or am I like everyone else?

[joe ashton]

Counting that red glass bow (at age 10) maybe 20..

[damascusdave]

I would say I have owned about 25 to 30 bows in the five years I have been at it...I am not searching for a particular bow, just bows that I like...I collect 1960 Bear Kodiaks in a small way so that total will only grow...I shoot both right and left handed so I have some of each...I enjoy shooting 3D and have one bow for that...I shoot with a group of purely longbow shooters and I am in the process of getting a Hill style or selfbow for that...I have a dual shelf longbow being made for a particular type of hunting I do...I just seem to have about 15 bows around at any given time

DDave

[Keith Zimmerman]

Probably around 50 so far...

[Jacquesbonin]

In the thousands! Am still collecting and trading, swapping and playing. It doesn't seem to matter what bow I shoot as long as it has enough draw weight! I have been collecting the older early fifties bows, next year I will do all my hunting with the oldies! Jacques

[59Alaskan]

Too many....

Around 30 I would say.

I would be a better shot and have more money to hunt if I had stuck with one but I too am a sucker for old bows.

Different bows mean more strings, more silencers, more rests and often more arrows.

But if anyone has an old LH B riser for sale that's a little beat up...LOL

[ksbowman]

Probably 75+, but I'm a recovering bow-a-holic!

[YORNOC]

Good Lord, way beyond the abilities of my memory.
A lot.

[Hermon]

22 that I can remember.   Not including bows I bought to give to nephews, or the bow that is the wife's.

[Triphammer]

Three "real" bows. A 50# Pearson I got for Christmas when I was 12 or 13. Used to take a bus 20 miles to the range. "Gave up" archery when I was old enough to own a rifle. I guess  you don't really give up archery, just put it on the shelf for a while. Picked up a used Bear Kodiak Magnum (50#)that I shot with for the last 30+ plus years until the tips started to turn. Just bought a Samick Red stag that will probably outlast me. This doesn't count the play bows that got me interested in the first place or the 10  or 15 glass bows that I bought to teach cub scouts or give to my kids & then their kids to keep archery alive through the decades.

[ron w]

I have about 27 on the rack right now.....I have rotated the stock at least 1 1/2 times.....so that's a bunch. I have made some great deals over the years and moved up in quality as I went. I have some nice stuff.......I love shooting them all. Variety is the spice of life.....lol!

[JRY309]

I would guess for me I have had around 50+ bows,still have 20+ right now.

[WildmanSC]

200+ over the past 13 years.  I have one shooter, my Morrison , and 2 new Bob Jones bows I bought as keepsakes.

Bill

[Caughtandhobble]

I don't have that many fingers and toes    

I am finished looking now that I have my AW Selfbow to go along with my Journeyman recurves and my other longbows  

[Matty]

Is TOO a number?     :D  
I almost think its a necessary evil. As you need to shoot a lot to see what works for you and what doesn't.
I would say 50 in the ten years I've been shooting.
A drop in the bucket for some people.

[Mudd]

[Bjorn]

Hundreds for sure including my Bear collection……………a few self bows I made, and a coupla' ACS which are my regular shooting  bows.

[limbolt]

Untelling,besides my wife may read this,LOL.  

[ed cowden]

So finding only one is pretty uncommand, and having and trying many is the normal. I think most men are alike in many ways. I had quit shooting my bows for about three years and wanted to sell them. So I took them to the Baltimore shoot and did sell about all I had, but on my way home I went back to thinking how much I loved shooting bows and then started buying more. It has revived me and is very enjoyable. And at least now I am normal.

[cyred4d]

Do you Really think I can  count that high?