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in reply to: Martin ML9 #28343

That was my first longbow in years i bought mine some years back it was a great bow it shot very well and got me interested in Hill style bows which i now own eight of. My Martin is now in alaska with my younger brother. it still shoots just as well as the day i bought it and its now over 20 years old. they do exibit more hand shock than my later bows most of whch are bamboo which to me seems to exibit less hand shock than other longbows Ive owned poundage being equal but its not objectionable at all.its a Great bow that really doesnt get the respect it deserves.

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in reply to: where are the heavier bows at??? #13941

well that explains it my baby bows are 60# I really prefer 70#+ long bow and 65# or so in recurves that kind of makes the bows shoot very similarly. im recovering from another injury and hitting the weights in preperation. I plan on being in shape to shoot 70# very well in amonth or so. theres just somethign about shooting a bow with some power behind it they shoot flatter or so it seems and hit nice and hard. but then im old and set in my ways shooting heavier bows gives me the motivatrion to get into better shape despite having dislocated one amr many years ago and having a shoulder seperation on te other side. im left ahnde dbut had to learn to shoot right handed due to the dislocation of my right arm the recoil will take my arm out of the socket. I do prefer the Hill style riser too although i have a new Kota on order and his old school riser works really well for me also.

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in reply to: where are the heavier bows at??? #13940

well that explains it my baby bows are 60# I really prefer 70#+ long bow and 65# or so in recurves that kind of makes the bows shoot very similarly. im recovering from another injury and hitting the weights in preperation. I plan on being in shape to shoot 70# very well in a month or so. theres just something about shooting a bow with some power behind it they shoot flatter or so it seems and hit nice and hard. but then im old and set in my ways shooting heavier bows gives me the motivatrion to get into better shape despite having dislocated one arm many years ago and having a shoulder seperation on the other side. im left handed but had to learn to shoot right handed due to the dislocation of my right arm the recoil will take my arm out of the socket. I do prefer the Hill style riser too although i have a new Kota on order and his old school riser works really well for me also.

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in reply to: How many bows do you have? #54741

Thanks all i now feel so much better about my addiction I dont even need to get into the knives and firearms its become clear to me im a hoarder if its not motorcycles its guns,knives or bows not to ention tools. maybe im not as sick as I once believed. well good shooting to all! thank the lord im down to only three motorcycles.

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in reply to: A long look at fletching and EFOC #62420

Thank you very much for the explanation. this topic made me think further than i previouslly had about fletching etc.

Im going to be experimenting a bit more in the near futhre.

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in reply to: A long look at fletching and EFOC #62322

Lots of good information here but i have a question ive always used 5″ some what helical fletching just because thats what i was taught to do many many years ago. Does the amount of Helical used actually help stabilize the arrow? I seem to get pretty decent flight out of my arrows out of all of my bows recurves longbows and all wod longbows.The wood bows arent as center cut of course so i ave to allow for that but im wondering if i really need all that flecthing now. I dropped down to 4″ on soem aluminm arrows for the recurves and they work well but now im wondering about my longbows with cedar shafts do i really need 5″ fletching? in the past ive tried sheild cut fletching but they seemed noisy they were about 51/2″ if i remmeber correctly.

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in reply to: You can hangup the straight jacket #53190

with that arrow weight the penetration should be insane! what are you going to hunt with those?

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in reply to: Cheap targets #45635

Well if i could see a key ring from 15 yards i could probably hit it! but its really hard to pick a spot if you cant see the spot! maybe new glasses are in order.

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in reply to: Black Widow #45623

I really wanted to try a Black widow so i bought one on ebay. Ive owned a lot of nice bows and this one is pretty sweet but kind of heavy. im more of s longbow shooter so anythign else seems heavy. but the widow is a sweet shooting stable bow and you can get some deals on ebay if you watch. I bought two of them and resold one. I bought the secnd to get a second set of limbs. I now have 55# and 67 # the 55 is a bit light but shoots sweet. its a little different from most of my other recurves due to the riser layout.

I found that settting the string height to their recomendations made a huge difference. I was not impressed and almost sold it until i read that the brace height was too low by 1/2″ I readjusted it to spec and wow what a difference. it shoots very sweet and easily groups arrows very tight at 30 yeards. it appears to like everything from wood to carbon arrows. its a very forgiving bow.

Its easy to see how people become a widow fanatic after spending some time with this bow.

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in reply to: bow materials #23492

Im really partial to Bamboo ive owned a lot of longbows and really like the lack of handshock and response of Bamboo.

My bows range from 55# to 80# about half are bamboo and glass and the others are laminated bamboo i also own a Kota Recurve in bamboo and am ordering a Kota Bamboo longbow today. Ive owned a lot of bws and the bamboo just seems to work for me.

In my experience if a bamboo bow is harsh theres something wrong.I have bamboo longbows made by five diffent bowyers and they all shoot similarly in thier smoothness and cast.

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in reply to: switch from compound to traditional longbow #19953

Years ago i foudn deal on a compound shot it a while and stopped shootign. i then got the bug again and bought a compound and a martin longbow. i took both to the range an shot the compound pretty well i coul barely hit the bales with the long bow. i was hooked took the compound back to the shop and sold it on consignment. Ive been a recurve and longbow shooter ever since my favorite being Hill style longbows which i no have seven of made by differen builders.

Start at a lower poundage like the 50# and work up you dont want to over bow yourself. i shoot longbows from55# up to 80# depending on my conditioning ive been hurt a lot and seem to be constantly recovering from motorcycle injuries or reinjuries. Theres just something about shooting a longbow nothing else comes close if you get hooked.

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in reply to: Longbow arrow questions #19941

Where are you located in Alabama? My Boss lives in Arab outside Huntsville. I really prefer wood I like the smell and working with it. I have been refletching aluminums this week several dozen to shoot out of my recurve it sure makes me miss the cedar but I built four dozen cedar practice arrows last year. Out here no one uses cedar with recurves so to compete on an even field i bought a bunch of aluminums they seem to be more durable as stump shooters also. a 70lb long bow sometimes destroys wood when stump shooting so i alternate when stump shooting. Im hoping to shoot tse first few shoots of the year with my widow then transition over to my longbows once I get my strength back where it needs to be.

most of my longbows are 60# 70lb and up ive got recurves from 55# to 68#. I do prefer Hill style longbows over anything else.

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in reply to: Thinking of getting a custom bow #51955

One point on having a custom bow built! its habit forming once I had my first custom built bow it was all downhill from there. I currently own about 11 custom long bows and recurves. just be forwarned.

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in reply to: Draw weight shenanigans #53600

I would think its a disparity in the scales. We had a bowyer in our area who built beautiful longbows and always said poud for poud his bows would out shoot anyones well they did shoot great but his scale was off by 11# to the highside. All scales are not created equal.

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in reply to: Let's see your fall hunting set up! #36154

Schulz Natural longbow 80# @28″ home made cedar arrows with 125 grain zwicky eskimos.

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