(16 October 2012, 17:00)Wildman Wrote: Mongolian recurve bow £450 60lb power(more than enough with a skillfull shot) traditionally made and absolutely beautiful. Well worth it IMO 
SMK Cobra 3102 compound bow £79.95 45 to 60 lb draw
(16 October 2012, 19:11)NorthernRaider Wrote: (16 October 2012, 17:00)Wildman Wrote: Mongolian recurve bow £450 60lb power(more than enough with a skillfull shot) traditionally made and absolutely beautiful. Well worth it IMO
SMK Cobra 3102 compound bow £79.95 45 to 60 lb draw
So I could but two or three for the price on the mongolian bow and still have plenty left for arrows ?
(16 October 2012, 16:51)Tartar Horde Wrote: The horse IS my bug out bag, permanent four wheel drive go anywhere runs on grass. £100 for a decent recurve!! I wish lol, more like £300-400, I think we are coming to this from different ends of the archery spectrum NR, buying a few cheap bows and using them for spare parts etc as and when they break down seems to me as false economy, the old adage "you buy cheap, you buy twice" rings true, buy quality and you only buy once. But any bow you can afford, be it from the lower quality end or high is better than none isn't it. Tibbs735 if you really want to get a compound look at the composition of the limbs as this really affects the shooting characteristics. Glass fibre limbs are sluggish and don't store energy as efficiently as carbon composite ones, If you buy a bow where the limbs can be changed for more efficient ones you can upgrade your bow at a later date. On some compounds you can change the profile of the cams allowing different "let off" weights this is useful as you can fine tune the bow for your shooting style. Don't forget folks, you can have the best bow in the world, but it is only as good as the arrows you are shooting, Arrows are the REAl key to archery, but that's a whole different can of worms
No mate
you are coming at it from the approach as an archer, I'm coming at it as a prepper most folks I know could not afford to spend many hundreds of pounds on one bow, and as I pointed out the long length of most recurves greatly reduces their practicality for survivalists. 99.9 % of people need a basic reliable affordable and functional utility tool, they need something that can have 90% of its length or more hidden in a rucksack, a tool they can patrol through their home or heavy thicketed woodland with, something they can fire from within a vehicle. something they can hold at full draw for minutes as they sweep a building.
You break your £500 bow and your in a real pickle, I break a £100 compound and just put it back into my store for repair and pick up another from my cache
You are of course 100% correct with your advice for selecting a bow for archery , I cannot fault your decision making process or advice for someone falling wisely in love with the skill of archery. But I'm coming at it from the view point of preppers just wanting an affordable, easy to maintain or replace, compact, easy to use utility tool that can bag two and four legged critters.
Mind you I reckon that after about ten to fifteen years we will all be making bows from anything we can salvage
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