Wood Choices
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Wood Choices
Will be ordering a new longbow this weekend and dont know much about the different woods used. The ones I'm looking at are all withing 20-$50 of each other ( except osage ). The woods are: ash , hickory, epe & bubinga. The one I had my eye on is bamboo backed bubinga. However, bubinga is not offered in reflex/deflex. Those come in the others listed. Could somone with knowledge of these wood explain the pro's & con's of each ? Pretty psyched to be getting a longbow. Been shooting my recurve at least 3 times a week for the past yr & half. Also , what will be the most noticeable difference when I finally get my longbow ?
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RE: Wood Choices
The recurve I shoot is 40#@28". Have no problem with the weight as I have been shooting with it for awhile now. It was given to me so didnt have the option of ordering for draw length. My compound draw is 29, so what should I order this one for ? As far as weight I'm gonna go with 55#.