Hi. I've only been doing archery for 9 months, shooting a sighted recurve but I have since I was about knee high wanted an ELB. However a clubmate suggested that an AFB might be a better starter for a traditional style bow. He let me shoot a couple of ends with his which was really fun to shoot once I got used to the hand shock. Only took a couple of arrows really but the first one made me jump!
This will be for fun, relaxation at the club, garden shooting and having a go at instinctive style shooting, antidote from the technical side of recurve etc etc. But I will still be shooting the recurve for the time being.
As a starter traditional bow, I don't want it to cost the earth but the thing is my draw length is 33", so I'm starting to think that for any kind of wooden bow I'm going to have to have something custom made. However I was talking to the guys at Aardvark about the Samick SKB horsebow I noticed on the rack and they said these happily draw 33" and are fun to shoot. I quite fancy one of these as it won't break the bank.
My recurve is currently about 41 lbs on the fingers (sorry I can't quite bring myself to use the Americanism of the hash symbol to indicate poundage) :blush: I can now draw that all day and hold it for some time at full draw, so maybe something that draws 45 at that length might be suitable?
This isn't meant to be me committing to any bow style. I'm loving archery so much at the moment I can't imagine limiting myself to only one bow. oulies: :archer232 I shoot air rifles and pistols and have recently cut down my collection to "only" five rifles and 11 pistols! :eye-poppi
So are reasonably priced AFBs available that draw 33"? Sounds unlikely to me but you never know. Should I hang in there and save for what I really want, a custom ELB? Or what the hell, the SKB sounds like fun. Or something else entirely?
This will be for fun, relaxation at the club, garden shooting and having a go at instinctive style shooting, antidote from the technical side of recurve etc etc. But I will still be shooting the recurve for the time being.
As a starter traditional bow, I don't want it to cost the earth but the thing is my draw length is 33", so I'm starting to think that for any kind of wooden bow I'm going to have to have something custom made. However I was talking to the guys at Aardvark about the Samick SKB horsebow I noticed on the rack and they said these happily draw 33" and are fun to shoot. I quite fancy one of these as it won't break the bank.
My recurve is currently about 41 lbs on the fingers (sorry I can't quite bring myself to use the Americanism of the hash symbol to indicate poundage) :blush: I can now draw that all day and hold it for some time at full draw, so maybe something that draws 45 at that length might be suitable?
This isn't meant to be me committing to any bow style. I'm loving archery so much at the moment I can't imagine limiting myself to only one bow. oulies: :archer232 I shoot air rifles and pistols and have recently cut down my collection to "only" five rifles and 11 pistols! :eye-poppi
So are reasonably priced AFBs available that draw 33"? Sounds unlikely to me but you never know. Should I hang in there and save for what I really want, a custom ELB? Or what the hell, the SKB sounds like fun. Or something else entirely?