Ok, I have had a week to enjoy the Liberty English longbow. This is the second bow made by Allen that I have had the pleasure of test driving. Both bows showed great craftsmanship. There is nothing that I could add to this point that hasn't already been stated by Michael.
This bow is a lot of fun to shoot. It is very smooth on the draw, and stable before and after the shot. It is very easy to stay on target and follow through with this bow. It also seems to be very spine tolerant. I shot 1535's, 1916's, 1918's, 3555's, 2018's, 55-60 and 60-65 spine woodies from it. The lighter spine arrows flew the best, but all flew acceptably. And this from a 46# bow.
Speed is not a large concern of mine, but I did run it over the chronograph against a couple of 46-47# bows that I have. It gave virtually the same readings as those bows with the same arrows.
This bows design (again, to ME) isn't to be the fastest bow out there, but to be stable. And it does that very well. I only have had the bow for a week and shot it mostly in the basement due to it being dark by the time I get home during the week, and the lousy weather we had this weekend. But in that short time I did shoot two Robin Hood's. One of them was even with two different types of arrows (1918 into a 1535).
The limbs on this bow are narrower that the limbs on the Classic if my memory is correct. I measure these limbs at just under and inch at the fades and just under a half inch at the tips. I really liked how they shot.
The grip is more oval shaped that the Classic I tried. To me, this is a better feeling grip, very repeatable for me. The narrower grip seems to index better for me than the rounder grip.
As to the riser. While some may not like the mid riser design, I think it is really good. Makes the bow more stable (to me) than a conventional riser bow and looks better (to me) than a forward riser bow.
I will be sending the bow on to Traxx this week for him to try out.
I want to thank Allen for the opportunity to shoot this bow.
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