Long Bows Rule and Shortbows Drool(all over the place)

[Badly Bent]

Now that is funny Patrick!

[rossfactor]

I live right down the hill from the Yurok and Hoopa tribes. These guys fed their families for thousands of years with bows not much longer than my arrows. And surrounded by the nicest 68" Yew staves you can imagine. Wonder why they never tried building longer ones? Maybe they weren't very creative  . LOL.

Gabe

[Holten101]

I like all bows, short, long, medium, straight, recurved, horn, sinew, backed, unbacked, bendy handle, stiff handle, D-bows, leverbows etc....even bows with wheels fascinate me:-)

Cheers

[soy]

I like all bows, short, long, medium, straight, recurved, horn, sinew, backed, unbacked, bendy handle, stiff handle, D-bows, leverbows etc....even bows with wheels fascinate me:-)

Cheers

I agree shrink a bow throw some wheels on it and BAM accuracy is improved mine is 32 inches and does quite well pasT 20 yards Pot stirred

[Pappy]

Man this is still going Now lets get back to the tree stand thing.
And yes Chris you are a pot stirrer,or some kind of stirrer anyway. :)Could use another word but it's Christmas and I am trying to play nice.
  Pappy

[Buckeye Guy]

Love it !

[Slackbunny]

I'm pretty sure that anyone who uses a bow less than 86" long just doesn't know what they're doing and should leave the shooting to the real pro's. 

[H Rhodes]

     You guys are still comparing the length of your.... bows?     Wow.  Great thread.

     Just to keep this seemingly never ending debate alive, who on here has had much success seated in a ground blind with a 72" bow?  I can't shoot well canted that far.  That is why I shoot with different lengths, depending on how I am hunting.  And for all of you spot and stalk types out west, please know that your methods don't work in our palmetto swamps down here.  You are pretty much confined to hunting in some type of stand - if you want any meat.  Okay, that's all I've got.  Keep it going!    

[Parnell]

Coolest short bow ever?  The little tiny round cross section probably 20# draw San bushmen bows from the Kalahari desert that shoot unfletched arrows with bone needle tips that are poisoned with a hemotoxin from something like tree sap and beetle larvae...or something!

[Onebowonder]

OK - So an 84+ inch Poplar Bow vs. a 51 inch Osage bow.  Shot at 20 yards.  ...with properly spined and sized arrows.  Which is the better bow?  ...and therefore the king of bow woods?

OneBow

[nclonghunter]

You know there is one "perfect length bow"...it will fall just between too long and too short. I just can not remember what that length is right now. Someone on here posted it once, who was it?

[missilemaster]

The bottom line is:  SHOOT WHAT YOU SHOOT BEST!!!!   (I like bows between 62-64")

[PEARL DRUMS]

Id never shoot then Cody, I don't shoot anything good!

[dbb]

What is long and what is short?
Personally i think a bow is short when i cant shoot it from a comfortable stance (drawlenght under 27" )
That makes my accuracy and consistancy suffer most.
But i still shoot better with with a longer bow with some mass in the hand and b.t.w that is exactly what a wheeliebow does,
get you a long nice draw with a lot of mass in the hand.

just my 2c   Hilarious thread btw