That's a that's a superb list of bows up their.I would say the 50s style market is full of really great bows.Both new and old originals.Have owned all those listed above accept Big Jims Mountain Monarch and their all great bows.I kinda got a soft spot for the Great Northern ghost and super ghost.My 1st 50s style was a Super Ghost.It was sweet at  60 inches and 65 pounds.All osage bow.Maaan what a Beauty!!!I dream about it.Bought it second hand at Cloverdale.I was tickled pink going home with that.I cant seem to get enough of those style bows.

One that I liked thats not listed above is the 62 inch Fox Breed 2 piece T.D.Love the 2 piece big time!Now thats a helluva bow.Its really graceful with its slightly longer riser than most 50s and the two I had,had these beautiful long fadeouts that just seemed to go on forever.Just gorgous!Like alot of the 50s style bows it has a deeper cored and narrow limb that has a graceful taper.The Fox limb is a well designed limb.Mine were all natural bamboo with nodes appearing where he ground them down for lams.I like all natural bamboo.Elegant bow.Anyway its right up thier with any bow listed above or not listed.Very smooth shooter,Does everything very well.Mine were setup with SBD strings/wool puffs and Eagles Flight quivers.Can you say quiet.

Tim Mullins of Acadien Woods Carbon reflex 50s bow is darn nice.

What might be called 50s hybrid would be a few of the newer bows with more super curve limbs paired with 50s style recurve riser.The riser is 50s style but the limbs are not.Centaur has a new one and Border has or had one.Not many around yet.My hands are gettin itchy.If that centaur shoots lights out its gonna be a bad boy.

I hope you get a great bow whatever you choose.You deserve it.Best wishes.

Am quite fond of my two Mountain Monarchs...

Partial to my Robertson Stykbow Peregrine Falcon.

Looks like it is a very personal decision.  Try as many as you can and then flip a coin.

Holm Made River Runner hands down! There's a reason I have 5 of them

Check out Fox Breed. Ron King makes a great 50s recurve.

Holm Made, Kohanna, St. Joe River all make outstanding 50's style recurves.

I wasn't around in the 50's so I can't speak to that but the Black Widow PSR in Osage and Cocobolo is the next bow on my purchase list.

i really like a saxon bow, a true 50s type bow i think. like a recurved longbow.

Check out the Acadian Woods one piece recurve!  Love mine!

And got a chance to break it in this past season too!  Great shooting bow!

Those Saxons were nice arrow30.Too bad their not available.The American was his plain Jane model.I had a 58 incher.The Saxon Selkirk 50s style was a really a handsome bow with the exquisite handle overlay work on the belly side and upgraded woods.Mine was 62 inches.That was a beautiful bow and very smooth shooter.I definatly preferred the 62 incher no doubt!The Selkirks one of the finest looking 50s style bows ever made IMO

Randy Bowyer and owner  of Saxon Archery built some very well crafted bows with Artistic flair.I believe he had some training with J.D Berry way back.His Hawk recurve and Hawk longbow were superb aesthetically speaking with their setback risers and detailed finish work.The Hawk recurve had a Scynthian style riser.So not 50s style.A bow worth remembering nonetheless for its voluptious lines.

A young but but talented bowyer of Montana is making a wonderfull one. Coltin Hurst at Hurst Bows. The bow is called the Prana. It is a compact bow with semi static tips. The bow is very fast but forgiving and smooth pulling.
I draw 31.5" + on the 61" and get a very friendly string angle at full draw.
Bow is B and W ebony and G10 riser for added mass
He makes it in 57 59 and 61" long.
Really A LOT of bow for the money
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Fox Breed. I have had mine for several years. Shoots very well and looks great.  Had it made. They where easy to business with. 58" pulls 45# at my draw 26".

Rich K.

One that you'll probably never see...Dave Paxton Talon Swift recurve.  Of all of the bows I own or have owned in the past, that recurve was one of a very few that I actually had made just for me...tippit

Steelhead if you liked the Saxon stuff maybe look into Rustic Archer by Wade Morris. He used to work for Saxon and learned from Randy and has the forms from Saxon. I am seriously thinking about getting one of his bows. He changed the name on a few but kept Kadiak. American is a Yeti, Hawk is a Mongol.  He has a Facebook page but no website to my knowledge.

I really like my Wild Horse Creek Mariah and my Northern Mist Ottawa.
I've owned several Kohannah Kurves, great bows(killed a lot of pigs with those).
I see a Holm Made River Runner in my future, great guy and great looking bows.

Well, I just pulled the trigger on a new Chad Holm static recurve from his stock bow page.  Hickory I-Beam with beautiful figured Bocote riser and Stunning Myrtle limb veneers...58" and 41.5# @ 28"

If the pic comes thru it is the bottom bow.