I read on here about short bows and long bows, recurves and longbows. I shoot all my bows basically them same, self bows, recurves and longbows. I guess the question is are you shooting different ways with different bows. I can pick most bows and after a couple of shots zero in no matter if their long or short or longbows, self bows or recurves.

I understand about long draw lengths and short bows but cant see the difference between shooting longbows and recurves keeping the draw weight the same.

I shoot them both the same way ,but some guys do not.

A bow is a bow. You adapt to whatever is in your hand at the time, whether it's an old bough-stave selfbow or a metal riser ILF.

Totally agree

"I pick up most bows and after a couple shots.." My experience exactly. I love my target bows, HH longbow, Bear and Browning recurves equally. I shoot them just about equally. I am self taught and maybe I don't know what I don't know, but hell, if the arrows keep hitting the mark, I'm smilin..:)

It shouldn't be a difference unless it is something really uncomfortable and that is not counting.

Agree with everyone so far. A bow is a bow.

I had never shot this bow before today. And I have never shot anything this short before - not by a damn sight, The bow here is a 52” Wing Thunderbird from 1967; all my other bows are 62” and up, so it’s a Real Change.

So here we are at an honest-to-God 20 yards with mismatched arrows, bare shelf and a thin metal strike plate. And no nocking point I stalled - just eyeballing it.

I started off at 4:00 and the shots just walked themselves in come there.

So not my best shooting but all things considered, it was no kind of an adjustment at all...

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