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Dryfirepete
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Thanks again, guys! You gave me lots of valuable insight and a lot to think about and consider!
Thanks, mate, I will! I watched your videos and understand you have one with a locator grip and one with a dished grip. I'm still struggling between a straight grip and a dished grip. If you got yourself a Yukon Styk, which grip would you take? Dished grip again or rather straight grip?Oh, nice one, bloke.
Those bows look incredible. I've even been considering selling my Pacific Styk to fund a Yukon Styk. Not likely I'll go down that road, however.
Post plenty of pics when you get it, and enjoy the wild ride that is an ASL.
The Olympics used to be contested with longbows, believe it or not.Idk if the Olympic analogy comes into play here. Punching paper w light arrows at long distances and shooting heavy arrows close range at animals are 2 dif things. Some of the best shooters in the world are longbow guys.
Fred Bear God bless him was a businessman. If recurves were cutting edge and that’s where the money was or he felt it was that could be why he concentrated there. Than too he might have just liked recurves himself better.
Also add to the Olympic thing, they shoot very differently, they anchor differently, hold the bow upright, recurve windows lend themselves more toward that.
Now the accuracy thing is a big one, imo longbows are far superior here. They’re def more point and shoot, def more accurate. Speed would be negligible but I’ve got a couple shoot by eye, cause I’ve never run em through a chrono , but they seem as fast or faster. Point being if speed really was the only reason we’d not be shooting any trad bows. It’s the love of watching an arrow fly, being 100 percent of the reason it flew that way, recurve, hybrid or longbow doesn’t matter all that much at that point.
To the op, go to a rendezvous, lots of makers will let you try their offerings. Chose what suits you.
But they are quieter and look way sexier!The Olympics used to be contested with longbows, believe it or not.
You can have the opinion that longbows are more accurate. You're entitled to that opinion. But if it were true, Olympic archers would be using longbow limbs. However, they don't.
The idea that longbows are superior is strictly a romantic notion not supported by facts.
I'll give you that.But they are quieter and look way sexier!
You and me both brotherI hate the fact that I'm a better shot with my recurves but I feel cooler because I look cooler when I'm walking around with an ASL.