It’s videos like this that make this HANDS DOWN my favorite UA-cam channel! Your passion for traditional archery has influenced myself and many others . I appreciate the knowledge that you share and the inspiration you carry with your words. I have switched from recurves to longbows and I’m the youngest longbow shooter at my local archery range. Most 24 year olds are obsessed with compounds but this, this stick and string has stood the test of time and I too will grow old with a longbow! Thanks again for another video !!! -Thomas 🏹
Steve’s hill style bows simply can’t be beat! Another amazing hill style bow is the two tracks echo by Charles Deschler out of Michigan. The NM classic and two tracks echo are my two favorite hill styles I’ve ever shot!
@@SamkoTradBow it came up in your tradbow only playlist. I was watching your last video that you came out with on Friday and then it showed up when I was scrolling through the playlist. My apologies if I wasn’t suppose to see it yet😂
I got a Bodnick Slick Stick a couple months ago. After shooting it, I became a longbow fan. Lightweight, no hand shock and easy to shoot. Great video Jason. Thanks much.
Nice collection of master pieces Jason . Sad but quite awesome on the ashes of your son, you bring him with you on your passion and I'm sure it sounded like his, he's with you all ways, God bless you on your upcoming journey. 🙏 🏹
Great bows. I agree Steve builds a fine bow. I have shot several Hill style bows from other bowyers and the Northern Mist is at the top. I have a red classic that ain't leaving! Lol
I bet that 52” bow that Keegan painted is a Browning Nomad Stalker. I bought one at a garage sale when I was 9 for $7 and killed my first archery deer with it. I’m 49 now and still shoot it from time to time. Great bow!
A hill style longbow is one of two bows on my list of bows I want to add to my collection with the other being the Bear Mag Riser with 40# and 55# limbs.
Nice batch of trad bows. Samick Sage are good bows, especially for starting out. Good shooters and won't break the bank. Jim Renyolds bow are definitely good shooters IMO. Have 2 a 62" n 56" may have to break them out this year. Like a lot of guys I probably have too many, but there are worse habits!
Hi Jason, How many years can a laminated bow be reliably used for hunting? From a safety point of view, how many years do hunters need to get a new bow?
If shot atleast a few times a year I would say 50 or 60 years at minimum. There are many people hunting with traditional bows that were made in the 50s and 60s right now still. And the quality of glues and materials now I bet a bow today would last much longer.
@@SamkoTradBow Thank you very much for your response. If I hunt with my laminated traditional bow almost every day, including cold winter, not only a few times a year, do you think my bow could last 50 or 60 years? I just want to know when I should get a new bow for safety reason. Thank you.
@matthewyu3531 yep the more ypu shoot it the better. Reason I said a couple times a year was because if it sits for years without being shot it can eventually get brittle. But if you shoot it it will last basically forever.
Recurves have a curve at the end of the limb and string come in contact with the limb at the tip. A longbow has no curve at the end and the string doesn't contact the limb. Both are amazing and it's just personal preference
GREAT PLAINS TRADITIONAL BOW COMPANY Comes close with the bow I have, the two owner/bowyers of the company took the time to find the right Hickory wood and even passed up some less figured woods, the bow looks like it was made entirely by machines it is that good and they did a proper stabilization to all the wood used in the bow including the handle of the wood/bamboo options. They do tone down the stabilization sheen by using a matt satin finish over the bow and yes, a matt satin is the full name of the finish type they use. I do like the fact that my bow, the Youth Longbow is actually an American Style Shortbow or ASS, as all shortbows tend to be no more then 55--56 inches with the Youth Longbow being 52 inches. I do think that GREAT PLAINS TRADITIONAL BOW COMPANY is currently the closest company to me making both longbows and recurve bows in a full lineup to where I live in Pierre (Pier) South Dakota, as St. Patrick longbows from Minnesota only makes longbows and I am not sure if the new American Archery is still making bows or if they stopped making bows by 2016, sometime around there.
Northern Mist and they only make longbows and Semi-Recurve longbows. I got a GREAT PLAINS TRADITIONAL BOW COMPANY, Youth Longbow due to needing a 24--24.5 inch draw at 45 pounds. I have two other bows one was a get back into the sport bow and the other was a bow that I thought was going to work for me but did not as it is a 45 pound bow that I draw to 35 to 36 pounds.
Clear glass on all my bows. I am not a fan of colored glass and prefer to see the the veneers rather than a solid color. All my longbows except the one I currently shoot with the quiver on it are mat finish. The one I shoot has a gloss finish that I dulled down a bit with steel wool. The gloss finish is tougher that the mat. And a thicker more substantial finish. Just needed the shine knocked down with the steel wool. I love it
Hey Jason! Great video as always, quick question for you, are you going to ETAR this year or have you ever been there? Also do you know if Steve turay attends?
I ha e never been and won't be. It's too far from me. Not sure if Steve still does or not. I dont think he did the last few years it's a long way from him in southern Alabama
Steve, I've been buying longbows for a whole year trying to find a longbow that would shoot well for me at a decent price. Are there any longbows and bow makers you would recommend within $500 or less? I'm an avid shooter and new traditional archer. I won't pickup a compound. Stick and string is the only thing that excites me. God bless brother.
Yep the Montana from Bear is a great option having seen a person shoot one before but an older 2000 or late 1990's bought bow in the 2000's. PSE has the Terra for a very great price $250. Farmington then has the Apache, a very similar bow to the Terra with slightly different grip at the same price of $250. Then Grayvn only makes longbows in flat styles like a Snake River, Bush and , one single model exactly to Howard Hills early unbacked bows as well as a few English longbow style, and some other bows in native styles. All bows are Hickory sapwood or inner core bows that are at most $425--$450 for one of the English models. Only flaw with the Grayvn bows like most actual custom bowyers that have a 6--12 month wight is Graven bows have a 6 moth wait unless you buy one of 6 finished models on 3 Rivers Archery site who also has the Vinyl Leather bow sock that Grayvn is supposed to sell.
@@caseysmith544 Thank you sir. I had purchased an Apache longbow, and just shot it today. It shot wonderfully! I am so happy! And I just found a Trad Archery Club nearby with 400 acres to hunt during hunting season! Bowhunting with trad bows are the best!
@@McDonaldsWrath18 Honestly... There is something to be said about searching for the perfect fitting bow...there is also something to be said about finding one that you somewhat like, and not switching for a year straight.... You may find alot of bows will work when you buckle down and stick to one for one year... YMMV.
Yep after a couple hundred shots you will develope a calus on each finger that will make it easy to shoot long sessions. A glove or tab is very important too.
I use for my eventual hunting bow something very similar to the Windstorm Youth Longbow that is at 24 inches a 45 pound bow from GREAT PLAINS TRADITIONAL BOW COMPANY and looks very similar in Hickory. The other bow I thought would be my hunting bow is a in USA Sold on Amazon, Chinese made OEELINE Airobow their 54 inch one piece recurve at 45 pounds that looks like a Bear Super Grizzly scaled down to 54 inches proportionally in all but the brace height. Then I have my get back into the sport bow in 2021 not having done archery since 2008--2009 winter, an Actionbow by Actionrod 8200 the 60 inch flat limb Longbow model made from 1961 to end of 1979 they sell in the most common weight to survive the 36 pound that I draw to 34--35 pounds 99% of the time in good weather not cold as then poundage goes up. I had to get an endless loop string from Legend because the string for the All fibarglass bow needed to be exactly between a 2 inch and 3 inch height of a Longbow and Recurve type string, this brand has the strings at 2.5 inches shorter for old bows that need such a height. This is from newest to oldest of bows that I own for myself and have not given to a person. The one bow that is 52--54 inches that was your sons first bow that was his only with the look like a Kodiak Magnum is more then likely a Shakespeare Sierra model that is 52 inches long. I have seen enough of that model as well as a Kids version trying to track down one in left for my left eye dominate issue before I got the OEELINE Airobow model thinking the size would work for my draw length but does not due to several factors, if they made a 55 pound or 60 pound bow I would have gotten another and also put my draw 24--24.5 inches for this bows weight, I have a cheap scale that is fairly accurate to +/-- 1 pound.
I was thinking this was an old Shakespeare bow, the Serria X--___ I forget the full name of bow but is the most mass produced Shakespeare laminate bow they made over the era the company made bows with a Kids variant at 25 inch draw and a Necadia/something like this that was the upgrade made in 1970's right before the bow division and all the tools/model designs got sold to Golden Eagle.
@@SamkoTradBow Yes, they had the Serria model that is very similar to a Bear Kodiak Magnum and the first clone of a model from Bear in the 1960's when Shakespeare hired Ernie Root to design the wood laminate bows for the Shakespeare company.
It’s videos like this that make this HANDS DOWN my favorite UA-cam channel! Your passion for traditional archery has influenced myself and many others . I appreciate the knowledge that you share and the inspiration you carry with your words. I have switched from recurves to longbows and I’m the youngest longbow shooter at my local archery range. Most 24 year olds are obsessed with compounds but this, this stick and string has stood the test of time and I too will grow old with a longbow! Thanks again for another video !!! -Thomas 🏹
Love hearing this. You are gonna love the journey a longbow takes you on. Would not trade it for the world
That was cool! Nice collection you got there and a lot of history and good memories too. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks. Glad you enjoyed it
Steve’s hill style bows simply can’t be beat! Another amazing hill style bow is the two tracks echo by Charles Deschler out of Michigan. The NM classic and two tracks echo are my two favorite hill styles I’ve ever shot!
How did you see this video. It's not published yet🤣🤣 those are all great bowyers
@@SamkoTradBow it came up in your tradbow only playlist. I was watching your last video that you came out with on Friday and then it showed up when I was scrolling through the playlist. My apologies if I wasn’t suppose to see it yet😂
@noahoakley5894 🤣🤣 that makes sense. Glad you enjoyed it and now you know the secret way to watch them early!
@@SamkoTradBow 😂yup!
I got a Bodnick Slick Stick a couple months ago. After shooting it, I became a longbow fan. Lightweight, no hand shock and easy to shoot. Great video Jason. Thanks much.
Beautiful bow! Longbows are very addictive!
Nice collection of master pieces Jason . Sad but quite awesome on the ashes of your son, you bring him with you on your passion and I'm sure it sounded like his, he's with you all ways, God bless you on your upcoming journey. 🙏 🏹
Thank you. Greatly appreciated.
Great bows. I agree Steve builds a fine bow. I have shot several Hill style bows from other bowyers and the Northern Mist is at the top. I have a red classic that ain't leaving! Lol
Yep love hill bows and love the northern mist classics
I bet that 52” bow that Keegan painted is a Browning Nomad Stalker. I bought one at a garage sale when I was 9 for $7 and killed my first archery deer with it. I’m 49 now and still shoot it from time to time. Great bow!
Very well could be. I'll have e to dif deeper into it
Dig deeper I ment
Great videos by the way! That one pulled at me a bit. Take care!
I have the same bow. Nice little bow. Perfect size for me
I owned a Howard hill cheetah and sold it years ago. I am on a mission to get one back in my possession. Love shooting the hills
me too! asl or hill bows are all i will probably ever shoot anymore.
I'll be putting in an order for a classic to add to my collection. Been wanting an ASL since I first shot one a few years ago.
You will love Steve's classic. Such a great bow
A hill style longbow is one of two bows on my list of bows I want to add to my collection with the other being the Bear Mag Riser with 40# and 55# limbs.
You will love both when you get them
Nice batch of trad bows. Samick Sage are good bows, especially for starting out. Good shooters and won't break the bank. Jim Renyolds bow are definitely good shooters IMO. Have 2 a 62" n 56" may have to break them out this year. Like a lot of guys I probably have too many, but there are worse habits!
You are so right, there are much worse habits to have. Collecting bows is a good one that helps the soul.
Have you ever done a video on how you make your bow stringer? If not you should.
I did. It's called tools you need to make your own leather goods.
What’s your thoughts on the Bodnick Quick Stick?
dont know anything about it. Sorry couldnt help
Hi Jason, How many years can a laminated bow be reliably used for hunting?
From a safety point of view, how many years do hunters need to get a new bow?
If shot atleast a few times a year I would say 50 or 60 years at minimum. There are many people hunting with traditional bows that were made in the 50s and 60s right now still. And the quality of glues and materials now I bet a bow today would last much longer.
@@SamkoTradBow
Thank you very much for your response.
If I hunt with my laminated traditional bow almost every day, including cold winter, not only a few times a year, do you think my bow could last 50 or 60 years?
I just want to know when I should get a new bow for safety reason.
Thank you.
@matthewyu3531 yep the more ypu shoot it the better. Reason I said a couple times a year was because if it sits for years without being shot it can eventually get brittle. But if you shoot it it will last basically forever.
@@SamkoTradBow
Thank you very much!
I like a Welsh Long Bow of Yew.
Very nice!
What's the difference in recurve and longbow and which do you prefer and why
Recurves have a curve at the end of the limb and string come in contact with the limb at the tip. A longbow has no curve at the end and the string doesn't contact the limb. Both are amazing and it's just personal preference
GREAT PLAINS TRADITIONAL BOW COMPANY Comes close with the bow I have, the two owner/bowyers of the company took the time to find the right Hickory wood and even passed up some less figured woods, the bow looks like it was made entirely by machines it is that good and they did a proper stabilization to all the wood used in the bow including the handle of the wood/bamboo options. They do tone down the stabilization sheen by using a matt satin finish over the bow and yes, a matt satin is the full name of the finish type they use. I do like the fact that my bow, the Youth Longbow is actually an American Style Shortbow or ASS, as all shortbows tend to be no more then 55--56 inches with the Youth Longbow being 52 inches.
I do think that GREAT PLAINS TRADITIONAL BOW COMPANY is currently the closest company to me making both longbows and recurve bows in a full lineup to where I live in Pierre (Pier) South Dakota, as St. Patrick longbows from Minnesota only makes longbows and I am not sure if the new American Archery is still making bows or if they stopped making bows by 2016, sometime around there.
Thanks for the great content! What is the name of the straight long bows you now shoot? I tried Barga Bows but nothing came up!
Northern Mist and they only make longbows and Semi-Recurve longbows. I got a GREAT PLAINS TRADITIONAL BOW COMPANY, Youth Longbow due to needing a 24--24.5 inch draw at 45 pounds. I have two other bows one was a get back into the sport bow and the other was a bow that I thought was going to work for me but did not as it is a 45 pound bow that I draw to 35 to 36 pounds.
Northernmistlongbows.com classic model. Steve that builds them has his shop in Alabama
Someone that hasmore bows than me. I feel a little better about my bow hoarding 😂
Can never have too many bows
Does your classics have clear glass on them or no glass?what’s the finish
Clear glass on all my bows. I am not a fan of colored glass and prefer to see the the veneers rather than a solid color. All my longbows except the one I currently shoot with the quiver on it are mat finish. The one I shoot has a gloss finish that I dulled down a bit with steel wool. The gloss finish is tougher that the mat. And a thicker more substantial finish. Just needed the shine knocked down with the steel wool. I love it
@@SamkoTradBow thanks brother
Hey Jason! Great video as always, quick question for you, are you going to ETAR this year or have you ever been there? Also do you know if Steve turay attends?
I ha e never been and won't be. It's too far from me. Not sure if Steve still does or not. I dont think he did the last few years it's a long way from him in southern Alabama
Steve, I've been buying longbows for a whole year trying to find a longbow that would shoot well for me at a decent price. Are there any longbows and bow makers you would recommend within $500 or less? I'm an avid shooter and new traditional archer. I won't pickup a compound. Stick and string is the only thing that excites me. God bless brother.
Lots of amazing used bows in the price and the amazon black hunter longbow is excellent and less than 200 new
Yep the Montana from Bear is a great option having seen a person shoot one before but an older 2000 or late 1990's bought bow in the 2000's.
PSE has the Terra for a very great price $250.
Farmington then has the Apache, a very similar bow to the Terra with slightly different grip at the same price of $250.
Then Grayvn only makes longbows in flat styles like a Snake River, Bush and , one single model exactly to Howard Hills early unbacked bows as well as a few English longbow style, and some other bows in native styles. All bows are Hickory sapwood or inner core bows that are at most $425--$450 for one of the English models. Only flaw with the Grayvn bows like most actual custom bowyers that have a 6--12 month wight is Graven bows have a 6 moth wait unless you buy one of 6 finished models on 3 Rivers Archery site who also has the Vinyl Leather bow sock that Grayvn is supposed to sell.
@@caseysmith544 Thank you sir. I had purchased an Apache longbow, and just shot it today. It shot wonderfully! I am so happy! And I just found a Trad Archery Club nearby with 400 acres to hunt during hunting season! Bowhunting with trad bows are the best!
@@McDonaldsWrath18 Honestly... There is something to be said about searching for the perfect fitting bow...there is also something to be said about finding one that you somewhat like, and not switching for a year straight.... You may find alot of bows will work when you buckle down and stick to one for one year... YMMV.
I'm a beginner.. is it supposed to bruise your fingers when you start?
Get a glove or tab that’ll help. Yes you can bruise till you toughen up your skin with out protection.👍😁🏹
Yep after a couple hundred shots you will develope a calus on each finger that will make it easy to shoot long sessions. A glove or tab is very important too.
Can’t stand a straight grip but then again the only long bow I own is a bear Montana
Bear Montana is one fine longbow!
I want one
You will love it
70 # for little kids?
Depends on strong the kid is😂. If I said 70 pounds on a kid bow I miss spoke
I use for my eventual hunting bow something very similar to the Windstorm Youth Longbow that is at 24 inches a 45 pound bow from GREAT PLAINS TRADITIONAL BOW COMPANY and looks very similar in Hickory. The other bow I thought would be my hunting bow is a in USA Sold on Amazon, Chinese made OEELINE Airobow their 54 inch one piece recurve at 45 pounds that looks like a Bear Super Grizzly scaled down to 54 inches proportionally in all but the brace height. Then I have my get back into the sport bow in 2021 not having done archery since 2008--2009 winter, an Actionbow by Actionrod 8200 the 60 inch flat limb Longbow model made from 1961 to end of 1979 they sell in the most common weight to survive the 36 pound that I draw to 34--35 pounds 99% of the time in good weather not cold as then poundage goes up. I had to get an endless loop string from Legend because the string for the All fibarglass bow needed to be exactly between a 2 inch and 3 inch height of a Longbow and Recurve type string, this brand has the strings at 2.5 inches shorter for old bows that need such a height. This is from newest to oldest of bows that I own for myself and have not given to a person.
The one bow that is 52--54 inches that was your sons first bow that was his only with the look like a Kodiak Magnum is more then likely a Shakespeare Sierra model that is 52 inches long. I have seen enough of that model as well as a Kids version trying to track down one in left for my left eye dominate issue before I got the OEELINE Airobow model thinking the size would work for my draw length but does not due to several factors, if they made a 55 pound or 60 pound bow I would have gotten another and also put my draw 24--24.5 inches for this bows weight, I have a cheap scale that is fairly accurate to +/-- 1 pound.
You have had quite the collection of bows
I like to shoot longer bows, but they can get cramped in tight quarters. So sorry about your son brother.
Thank you. Greatly appreciated
Are your long bows cut to center ?
No. I shoot hill style bows that are not cut to center
I'm guessing Keegan's self camo recurve is a Bear Kodiak Magnum.
I was thinking this was an old Shakespeare bow, the Serria X--___ I forget the full name of bow but is the most mass produced Shakespeare laminate bow they made over the era the company made bows with a Kids variant at 25 inch draw and a Necadia/something like this that was the upgrade made in 1970's right before the bow division and all the tools/model designs got sold to Golden Eagle.
Looks like a magnum but I don't think it's a bear might be a Shakespeare. We bought it at a garage sale when he was 11
@@SamkoTradBow Yes, they had the Serria model that is very similar to a Bear Kodiak Magnum and the first clone of a model from Bear in the 1960's when Shakespeare hired Ernie Root to design the wood laminate bows for the Shakespeare company.
I have a 52 inch browning cobra that looks very similar. Same specs too
@@austinmanguy could be what this is too. Will have to dig deeper into it