Jeff that Montana you are shooting is very smooth shooting for a longbow. When I decided to take up traditional archery, I compared a long bow and a recurve side by side on the range.... a Martin Savannah and a Bear Super Kodiak.... no comparison there at all... and now I have four recurves.

Since I have shot the Montana, and while my experience is somewhat limited to about ten bows from each class, the Montana is definately my choice in production class longbows.

As others wrote, easier is relative. Your Montana is certainly easier to work with than say a Martin X-200 recurve. The important thing that I have found is when you are starting out (and I am example of what not to do), its good to start with ONE BOW and get VERY comfortable with it. Seems to me thats just what you are doing, and thats definately good. I got a bunch of different bows (fairly inexpensive too) and just monkey around with all of them. I'm decent, but not hunt ready with any of them.