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Should I get a compound or recurve bow?
I wanna be super duper good at shooting things with a bow. So I need your help deciding which is better to get: a compound or recurve? Recurves look slick and classy, but compounds I hear are better at shooting and accuracy and all that. I wanna spend like $220 on a bow. Basically, I wanna be like Legolas.
4 Answers
- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
unless u are super strong, most people find a recurve bow hard to hold back and not fire while aiming. a compound bow has a breaking point where once it is drawn back it breaks at a certain point (it can be held for several seconds with less effort). as a general rule a compound bow is easier to handle than a recurve. neither will be very accurate without much practice tho.
Source(s): personal experience - 7 years ago
Recommend you to start with recurve bow as it's cheaper.
- 1 decade ago
Compound bow is easier to shoot accurately, recurve bow is sort of a reflex judgement shot.
Archery takes a lot of practice, recurve takes a lot more.
- 1 decade ago
Recurve bows are harder to shoot but if you practice then you can get really good. And they are cheaper than compound bows. You can get a good recurve for 150. Another thing is that if you want to look like Legolas then you can get a wooden recurve which would look cool
Source(s): have both
