Have been away for awhile as a poster here...I lurk now and again, but just needed to share the excitement without giving up my dirty little secret on the "other" trad boards (shootin buddies visit too often)

The secret weapon is on the way, my fourth Chek-Mate. A 62" Hunter 2. It's "only" a 51 pounder, but at my 29" draw I don't expect it'll be "slow".
For the past 3 seasons I have been enjoying the hybrid longbows. Shot a Crusader for a season, a Featherhorn the next and now a Dwyer Defiant for the last 9 months or so. All great bows and great fun...but, I'm finding I shoot the recurves better....so what's a guy to do ? That's right, order a new bow !

I'm dropping 6 pounds off the draw to help me work on my form. Have been strugglingthrough target panic and have finally been making some progress this season thanks to some help from some fellow cyber traditionalists and many hours shooting the bag in the garage. Great workout, good for the soul too

Anyway, the plan is that the bow gets here Thur or Friday, Friday night I grab an armload of old arrows and tune it up at the range. Silencers and quiver loaded...thinking some 30.5" 2018's or my 2020's with 145's might work nice. If it's as wild as my Raven, it may want a 2117....we'll see.
then Sunday morning we head out for a 3D and I score justa few morepoints than everyone else in the groupbut not enough to embarrass anyone......that's the plan anyway. LOL

The goal is to work past my working weight of 57-58 pounds andorder up some 60-62 pound limbs for next season.

What would really be cool is if LBR could get me some 64-66" Crusader limbs to bolt on the H2 riser.