Hi I'm just curious if others are affected with the same disease as me
I'm waiting for my Blacktail Sitka to come
That will be my 15th custom longbow recurve for my collection.
Anyone else have this obsession?
I've got 12 longbows and 14 recurves. None of the recurves are custom. But about half of them are lightweight for kids and friends to shoot when they come around.
The longbows are all custom. I use to buy one when I wanted but lately when I buy one, I sell something. I've sold maybe 8 -10 over the last 10 years all in weights I wasn't going to shoot anymore.
Twenty-four selfbows and four longbows, all but one built by myself. Kind of like kids I guess, hard to part with after witnessing their birth 🥴!
Honest Jon
Bear Grizzly, Damon Howatt Hunter, Big River Kodiak clone, HTD for recurves.
MOAB, Big River 21st Century clone and KOTA Badlands for longbows.
About a dozen ELB-stylish bows (natural wood and bamboo), five AFLB (wood & glass/carbon), one traditional recurve (wood & glass), one Hungarian horse bow (horn, wood, sinew, leather) and a couple of shorter selfbows.
:campfire:
There are some impressive collections on here
Bear Ranger
Bear Black Bear
Bear '59 Kodiak (vintage)
Ben Pearson Colt
Ben Pearson jet bow
Darton Magnum
Unknown osage static with Grumley style brush nocks and rawhide backing
Unknown R/D longbow '50s
Sky Trophy Longbow
Sheesh - talk about addiction. No wonder I keep on thinking about new bows!
3 and 2
7 longbows and 3 recurves
53 longbows and 32 recurves. :)
--Mike
About 40 total :help:
4 recurves, 3 longbows.
Liberty English longbow
Black Widow PL Longbow
Black Widow PSA recurve
Tall Tines Stickflinger
I have a self-imposed limit of four or five bows.
These are the bows I hunt with. I also have the first bow my parents gave me as my 13th birthday present- a Shakespeare Wonderbow and my Dads old recurve from the 1950's or so.
I have my share,
1-Chek-Mate Hunter 1 54lbs 56" AMO
2-Bear Grizzlys 46Lbs and 47Lbs one Brown glass and one grey glass
1-Martin,Damon Howatt Hunter special order and personalised that I picked up used 47# @26" draw
1-Martin x-200 40lbs
1-Browning Wasp 50lbs
And as soon as I can go pick it up a Black Widow PSA 45lbs 60" AMO that I found used and am very excited about
Never counted them all :knothead:
Just enough to be content. But want just one more :knothead:
DH High Speed - 2
Toelke Kestrel
Wild Horse Creek Mariah
Wild Horse Creek Wisp - waiting delivery
Wild Horse Creek Destiny - thinking about it.
Just shy of 60 I think !!!
I think I have five longbows and my wife keeps telling me that's enough but the Kazoo show is this weekend.
you mean from each bowyer right? :biglaugh:
A lot less than I used to have. Still have 15 or 16 recurves and longbows and several selfbows with several more in various states of incompletion. :goldtooth:
One longbow. 13 one-piece recurves. One bolt-limb recurve.
Never was one to collect Bowes , went through a bunch but always kept the few that shot best for me. I was down to one recurve and one TD longbow that I built. Bought a ILF because I wanted a lighter bow. I do have a set of LB limbs for the riser also. So if limbs count as "bows" 2 recurves and 2 longbows.
I counted 17. I have 4 or 5 really nice bows a couple wall hangers and the rest are what I would call clunkers. The clunkers are shootable, just not so nice.
One longbow, one recurve, two three piece combination bows with both recurve and longbow limbs. One low draw weight training bow, Sage.
One set of limbs on order. One longbow on order.
How many bows do you need? The number of bows you own plus one.
I'm not a collector of anything much. Maybe DeWalt cordless tools. Most of what I keep around has a use. I'd rather something like a nice bow be used by someone who appreciates it than sitting on my rack as a backup to my backup.
At the peak I had over 100 bows, mostly recurve classics. I missed about 20 yrs while serving in the army and raising a family. Then I found a recurve at the flea market and the addiction was on. There weren't any Black Widows or other high dollars, but lots of Bears, Pearsons, etc. Now I have more then fifty, and getting too old to shoot them. Darn, how I would like to have had a couple of these when I was younger. :archer2:
I am bow poor now, from 200 down to 50, now mostly customs
18 longbows
4 recurves
Wow you guys, y'all must have a lot more expendable money than I do.
I currently own 4 longbows, and I'm in the process of selling some of them just so that I can afford a new custom longbow ...
Shhhhh-she'll hear. No honey, only one bow more.
1 ILF from old compound riser
6 recurves
3 longbows
I have one recurve I made in wood shop(50yrs ago!) and one ASL. Mostly make give-aways these days.
Here's a few...
(https://i.imgur.com/4Xi7YWN.jpg)
How many I really have or what I tell my wife I have!!! :biglaugh:
Quote from: flint kemper on January 27, 2023, 12:39:28 PM
How many I really have or what I tell my wife I have!!! :biglaugh:
That'll never work for me, my wife also has a longbow and it's hanging on the same rack as mine ... :biglaugh:
7 Total Bows
RER - Long bow & Recurve limbs
RER - Recurve
Bear - Montana
Fox - Recurve
Samick - Recurve
Chaparral - Longbow
Mahaska - Recurve
Rich K.
9 total
12 total 7 recurves and 5 longbows spanning about 6 decades. Think I bought my first recurve from K-Mart in the 70s a Pearson
Enough to start an archery shop. In other words, I don't know. :biglaugh:
Two. It's the same model and at the same draw weight. My oldest is a one piece longbow and I love it but it's difficult to travel with so I had a 2-piece version made to make travels more convenient. If I had to keep one of the two I'd keep the two piece version solely for the improved convenience when traveling but in actual use I can't tell any functional difference between the two. I'll die with my two Sarells Sierra longbows in my collection and at least as of now I am not planning to buy another bow.
Ten recurves