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WHich do you use? Did start out with another and switch? what are the pros and cons of your choice now?
I'm looking at bows right now, interested in getting back in after years not shooting at all. Right now i'm thinking recurve over combo.
I'm looking at bows right now, interested in getting back in after years not shooting at all. Right now i'm thinking recurve over combo.
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Re: Compound or recurve
Sun, June 4, 2006 - 5:58 PMI prefer recurve, but then I have more of an interest in medieval western archery and recurves just feel more natural to me. I've also used either longbow or recurve. no sights or scopes or anything like that. -
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Re: Compound or recurve
Mon, June 5, 2006 - 2:47 AM
Recurve.
Compounds are best for hunting. -
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Re: Compound or recurve
Mon, June 5, 2006 - 3:55 AMI started out on compound but then went to recurve and prefer it but I use both.
I like having the choice and being skilled at both. -
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Re: Compound or recurve
Mon, June 5, 2006 - 2:50 PMSo recurves for competitions? Does the choice of bow reflect ones personality? Do you think the compound bow archers are gadget people? WHen I played paintball, there were two groups, the purist, who kept it simple and had what they needed to play efficiently. And the Gadget group, who had all the new attachments, auto feeders with the battery operated paddle, some new gas attachment etc. is that how the archery world is? the traditional/purists and the gadgety high tech group?
I ask only because I love technology, embrace it but also like the idea ofusing my skill and basic equipment to do the job at hand. The prices are about the same from what I've seen, So how do you see yourself? Oh and do you compete? -
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Re: Compound or recurve
Mon, June 5, 2006 - 5:42 PMWell even recurve people have their gadgets ;) such as sights, stabilizers, peepholes, kissers, etc ;)
I've shot both, the let-off on the compounds is a novel feeling(for me) but I tend to shoot tighter groupings with a compound versus a recurve bow.
As for myself, I do prefer recurve over compound but then again I'm a closet traditionalist and even so my recurve bow isn't really all that traditional being a take-down bow with a metallic riser.
Try going to your local archery store and practice with both and see which one you feel closer to or get both ;o) -
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Re: Compound or recurve
Tue, June 6, 2006 - 2:12 PMThanks, went in to Gander Mountain but think this other store will probably better for my search.
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Re: Compound or recurve
Mon, June 5, 2006 - 6:09 PMi figure if i want gadgets, i'll get a heat seeking missile or a rifle. archery for me is about not using all those fancy targets, yet still being able to hit a acorn sized target from 40 yards. -
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Re: Compound or recurve
Tue, June 6, 2006 - 2:14 PMso you enjoy the skill of the game. -
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Re: Compound or recurve
Wed, June 7, 2006 - 4:20 PMyeah. i mean, shooting a rifle is skill too (less so with firing heat seeking missiles), but i enjoy the historical aspect of archery. I'm not using the best tool available to poke a hole in a target at 40 yards, but rather, i'm using a tool that humans used for thousands of years to do these sorts of things. i guess it's more about a nostalgia for simpler times.
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Re: Compound or recurve
Mon, June 5, 2006 - 5:01 PMI shoot recurve because I’m a luddite at heart. I’m considering buying an English long bow to get father away from technology.
Both recurve and compound are used in competition, but if you are heading to the Olympics, they only allow recurve. -
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Re: Compound or recurve
Tue, June 6, 2006 - 2:15 PMThe compound is like archery on steroids lol, so of couorse the Olympics wouldn't allow them. -
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Re: Compound or recurve
Tue, June 6, 2006 - 3:18 PMYou can go with the compound, just get a recurve when you're ready to lose the training wheels ; ) -
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Re: Compound or recurve
Tue, June 6, 2006 - 4:32 PMleanig toward the recurve, will most likely be what I buy
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Re: Compound or recurve
Wed, June 7, 2006 - 4:21 PMdidn't the medieval mongolians invent a compound bow for use in horseback archery? maybe i have that mistaken, but I do seem to remember something about compound bows being used in medieval mongolia. -
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Re: Compound or recurve
Wed, June 7, 2006 - 5:15 PMthe mongols are known for horseback archery. they would ride horses everywhere, taking several with them so as to switch off to a fresh one every so often. in battle, they often relied on hit and run tactics. riding up to a town/army and firing off a volley of arrows then riding off before any counter-attack can be formed. -
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Re: Compound or recurve
Wed, June 7, 2006 - 9:32 PMbeing able to swivel (I think specially made foot straps on the horse that swiveled)around back wards to shoot
(Is this correct?Its been awhile since I read this.) -
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Re: Compound or recurve
Wed, June 7, 2006 - 11:38 PMyeah, mongolian saddles are very wierd by our western standards, but growing up, they learn how to ride a horse before they can walk, so they naturally want something more flexible. i'm not sure about the swivelling, but i'm sure they could ride backwards.
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Re: Compound or recurve
Thu, June 8, 2006 - 2:26 PMnot compound, composite the bows were made with laminated layers of wood, horn and sinew held together with glue. Mongol bows did not have training wheels. -
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Re: Compound or recurve
Thu, June 8, 2006 - 3:04 PMwell, it's the same first syllable... :-p
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Re: Compound or recurve
Thu, November 23, 2006 - 9:40 PMConsider a homemade longbow or flatbow. Twice the fun. Let me know I could point you in the right direction. -
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Re: Compound or recurve
Tue, December 12, 2006 - 9:55 AMI too, would be interested in knowing which direction to take. Please post. Thank you. -
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Re: Compound or recurve
Tue, December 12, 2006 - 1:34 PMI shot with a longbow for a while and found that I simply did not enjoy it as much as shooting a recurve. I recently purchased a recurve (so I don't have to borrow my instructors loaner anymore) and am very excited about getting out with it more often.
I've also never shot anything but a recurve or longbow so I don't know the reasons for shooting a compound bow. Composite - yay! Compound - eh?
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Re: Compound or recurve
Thu, December 3, 2009 - 2:45 PMBoth, I have a 1979 Jennings Arrowstar Mk II Target four wheel compound and a Mike Fedora Brazilian rosewood handle, Honey locust limbs take down recurve. I started with arrows in the sixties with a Ben Pearson Javalina target. I just shoot for relaxation, zen archery thing. I never hunt.
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Re: Compound or recurve
Thu, December 3, 2009 - 10:04 PMI started shooting recurve as a child and then gradually went to longbow and then eventually D-sectioned British longbows. I found that longbow was far more intuitive and enjoyable to shoot. I really don't like compound bows (I've shot them, but they're just not for me). I also only shoot wood arrows. I went from shooting off of a recurve-like semi-centershot shelf to shooting off of my hand with no shelf and I found that my shooting actually improved. I am very picky about the bows that I shoot. I own longbows by Don Adams, Steve Ralphs and Michael Llwadell and longbows from modern materials by Herb Meiland and Bill Matlock. I shoot very heavy draw weight bows (70# - 85#) and I make all of my own arrows and I am a fanatic about matching spine weight and matching overall grain weights to within 10 grains. I'm a pretty darned good shot and although I do hunt on occasion, I spend most of my time shooting NFAA, NAA, BLBS, 3D and stump shoots. I love tournaments and I like to keep the technology in the workshop making matched arrows and bowstrings and in the field, just shooting with the simplest equipment where I know it was me that made the shot and not some infernal arrow shooting machine.
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