Greyhawke 72" English Longbow Review

Great longbow for a novice

Very pleased with its ability for a novice like me to shoot moderately tight clusters with a 35-40# draw. (Still working on moving the clusters toward the bullseye,) Delighted by the second nock at the top of the bow which facilitates the use of a simple stringer.

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Outstanding Bow

I love this bow. It's accurate and ambidextrous. I was also surprised at the power of the this bow (35-40lb). I would use this bow to hunt small game. Great period piece. Great construction. All around good primitive bow and worth every penny.

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Great bow!

I have this bow with the 40-45 lb draw. I set my brace height around 7 1/8th inches as another reviewer recommended, and that's working well. I think the recommended is 6-8 inches, so that's right in the middle. I shoot 500 spine, 31" arrows. This seems to be a good setup, and I can be pretty accurate. It's a beautiful, simple bow, and I love it. I shoot off my bare knuckle (no… read more bow glove). Just to be on the safe side, I wrapped a clear piece of packing tape (about .25 inch wide) around the tip of the fletchings so there are no sharp points to catch my skin. Again, love this bow. Gravyn Archery is awesome, and they're a small American business. One thing to note, the arrows don't seem to fly as fast as they do out of my recurve with a similar draw weight, so you may want to go for a slightly higher poundage than your recurve if you want to keep a similar speed.

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I would buy

Highly recommend this product

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Great deal on a great hickory bow by Gravyn made in USA.

This is my first longbow so there was a learning curve getting this shooting consistently, but after a few days of tweaking it I found the sweet spot for this bow, and now I am the part of the equation that needs to become more consistent. I know every bow is different, but this may help someone else so this is what I have learned in the process of making this bow shoot tight groups… read more without any issues. 1. Brace height on mine is 7 1/8" measured from the 'arrow rest' point on the riser. This will differ on each bow, but it may help you with a good starting point. Mine stopped slapping arrows on the riser at this height and no vibration. 2. Nock point - (mind you, I shoot with a 45 degree cant) is 13/16" above the 'arrow rest' line perpendicular to the string, which seems high, but they are flying straight into the target from 10 yards on out. I did try this out shooting vertical as well and it seems to be the right spot regardless of shooting style. Had to scribe another spot on my bow square for this one. 3. Arrows - (my bow is the 50-55# @28"): I found a 400 spine arrow at 9.6gpi cut to 30" insert to inside of nock groove with a 150gr point flexes properly away from the riser and delivers a solid, hard hit to the target. This also gives me arrows with about a 16% FOC. There is only one thing I didn't care for as the bow came and that was the string. The pic shows one that has center serving but the one you get doesn't have it. Get an endless loop or a regular Flemish twist (which is what I am using) unless you are able to put your own center serving on the string as this bow's string doesn't come that way. I also highly recommend getting a protector for the bottom limb tip (for any traditional bow). This bow is very quiet without silencers but I added some anyway, and now this is the quietest bow I've ever owned. All you hear is the hard thump when the arrow strikes the target. Love this longbow!

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