I'm new to archery, but since March I've gone from compound fully loaded to compound with fingers to recurve and now a 42#,66"longbow by Daryl Brooks. I'm extremely happy with it and even more so after today. I was waiting to get wood arrows for it--been shooting a few from the club house, but decided to use my 40# recurve carbon arrows today. The GT 28"600s with 125 tips were hitting and flying great. Checked bare shaft shooting, the same, checked paper, the same. I'll just shoot carbon with this puppy, and I love the bow.