How many bows have you owned?

[Jerry Russell]

As an adult (hunting bows) 4 in 35 years and only one at a time. All Black Widows. I get attached.

[6feathers]

I've been shooting traditional bows since 1964.  I currently have 18 on the rack and have owned somewhere over 200 longbows or recurves over the years.  I can't really pick out a favorite bow.

[GreyGoose]

That my wife knows about, or really?

[KAZ]

(2) One Blackwidow HS60 I bought new in 1987 and still have, and one Blackwidow 54"KB that I got in the summer of 2012.... I am attached to both!  

[Altiman94]

I think I'm on my 5th or 6th and I still do not have a traditional harvest!  I've been telling myself that I cannot get a new bow until I get a harvest with the one I have....but the tall tines are really catching my eye!!

[TxAg]

In the last 5-6 years... Probably 2-3 dozen

[TRAP]

Enough

Pretty sure I have the one bow now that I'll hunt with for many years to come.

Trap

[tippit]

My Mom would always ask my Dad how many beers he drank while in his wood working shop.  With a twinkle of his eye, he'd always say TWO knowing that he couldn't get away with ONE and fearful to say MORE.  So I just have TWO!     tippit

[ed cowden]

Thanks for the input. I see many have owned more bows and few have just stopped at one or two favorites. I guess we are all lucky to have so many to choose from and different bowyers coming up with different models to try.

[stujay]

Saw the title and I thought...boy a bunch, maybe too many with all the money represented. Have now whittled them down to one.

[Flying Dutchman]

I think I owned only a dozen, but I try to shoot and test-drive as many as I can.
My keepers and best bows I found till  so far, are my Caribow Peregrine, my Whippenstick Phoenix and my RER Vital. In no particular order.

I don't want to say out loud.....

[chall]

last ten years - 13

[Gdpolk]

6 -

Not including those that I've picked up to try and sold after less than a dozen shots for whatever reason or those that I made from a bent stick and trotline as a kid

I've shot probably 200 or more traditional bows but the vast majority of those were less than 6 shots at an archery shop with a wide selection of trad bows.  I've been on a quest for years now for a take down that performs as well as well as my one-piece.  As soon as I find that bow, it's coming home to stay.  Until then, I'll deal with the inconvenience of packing a 64" one-piece bow in the car for traveling.

[Joshua Grimshaw]

I think 14 but some I bought used just to try and sold without even hunting with them. Three of those bows also came apart or were starting to come apart on me. I switched to traditional around 1993.

[oldbohntr]

Jacques, you've got me beat. I'm sure bearbowman does too.  A few years ago, I figured I'd passed 1500.   At one point the collection numbered about 450, but it's probably below 200 now.  A few come, a few go. But, the fever seems to have broken.

[Thumper Dunker]

I do not have to answer that.

[Igor]

I've owned more than 25 different well know brands and a few more not so well known with multiple bows within those brands ....so I'm guessing 75 - 100 different bows....


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[Pat B]

I'll have to say hundreds. I make selfbows and make them all for my self even though I have sold a few and given away many. I probably have 50 bows now, most selfbows(some made by me, some by others), some wood backed bows or all wood lam bows but I also have my first recurve(Shakespear), my first custom Recurve(Ernest Gilbert Canoochee Warrior), first custom longbow(Mike Treadway) and a few other glass lam bows and one or two solid glass bows.

[Sean B]

I'm only at 26 trad bows since about '90