pyral - I prefer longbows, hybrid longbows. Why ? They just "fit" better. With a recurve (my experience) they are heavier mass weight, louder, a little faster and shorter, comfortable grips. Traditional longbows (D style) are shocky, slower and longer and striaght gripped.

Enter Adcock longbow. Faster than most longbows, not quite as fast as a recurve (the new ACS is an excpetion from what I have heard). Its VERY quiet, more so than a recurve. Its lighter than a recurve, bit heavier than a longbow. 62"-66" doesn't make them overly long either. Simply put, hybrid longbows are built for hunting IMO.

Adcock, Horne and Sley makes FINE hybrid bows that I have shot. Chek-Mate, Hummingbird, Acadian Woods and a bunch of other known bowyers make fine ones too that I have heard. Shoot a few if you can, and when you decide a good way to go is used bows through www.women-outdoors.com or www.archery.net/classpro/, EBAY or the Classifieds here. If you like the bow you get, you get a good deal. If you don't, you can resell it and not lose a whole lot.

JMHO
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