Rusty, I got a rusty old Ford 4x4 too. I love it.

Actually Easton provides spine charts for their various arrows as i guess the carbon jobs do also. Spine becomes more important the further from center the arrow is. The arrow bends somewhat as it leaves the bow and a non-center shot bow needs an arrow with more bend.

I have found I prefer shooting the longbow. i don't think I am any more accurate than with a recurve but then again I don't think I am any less accurate. For hunting situations the long bow seems to point better for me and faster and it just feels good.

If I was only allowed one bow, it would be a long bow.

There are other trad sites out there. I would like to see more activity here as well. There is a fair amount of knowledge on this site.

=keith=