Well I did it. Shot my 1st 3-d shoot this morning using my longbow. It was a perfect day for shooting 38 F and pissing down sleet. But, I still had a great time. Shot with 2 of the areas best recurve shooters. Boy did I learn alot. We did a little shooting inside before we ventured out. Looked at my form made a few suggestions and a couple of the problems I was having cleared up. Have to remember to keep my shoulder up and repeat a consistent anchor...duhh! Then they did a very, very, very evil thing.....they let me shoot their recurves Now some may laugh but I never shoot a recurve, started out straight with a longbow. Well I have to admit I really shot them well. One was a brazillian rosewood Fedora and the other was a custom Pink Ivory riser model (John our shooting partner made it himself). Both were stunning to look at. They both laughed and had an evil smile and started wispering about converting another one. I was the only longbow shooting and I held my own. Now Chad close your eyes, I used my Selway. It is 51 # instead of 57# like my Crusader. Figured the cold and wet would get me. Only lost 2 arrows in the snow and missed 5 targets. Funny thing was they were easy targets. The others laughed because I got the hard ones One of the shooters in my group won the trad division. I didn' t come in last. I think only because most people didn' t finish...lol I' m an addict now. They said they would bring more recurves for me to shoot next week.....help meeeeeeeeeeee!