Longbow advice

[peaty29]

I have been using a Snakebite since early in my "career". I have it currently at level 15. I am considering hanging it up and trying out a longbow. For those that have experience with it, how does it compare? I know the aiming is dramatically different, but what about penetration and spook radius? I am on the fence and not sure if I would be a wise/wasted investment.

[Pete Gaimari]

Get the Longbow for the challenge but no way can it compare to the Snakebite.

[Slowsilver]

I'm about 95% sure it would be wasted investment. It might be the worst bow in game.

[Pete Gaimari]

He might have had 100% hit accuracy with the Snakebite.

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Originally posted by Slowsilver:

I'm about 95% sure it would be wasted investment. It might be the worst bow in game.

It's about the same as the cable back. The CB has a large clumsy head which can make hitting things at a distance far less precise.

Either bow are fine if you're using them constantly. If you're levelling up with them, always take them out and get used to the sight picture and various riser or other reference marks to use at each range then it becomes straightforward enough to use. They're also extremely lethal up close at almost impossible to miss distances. It's when you stop using them, have become lazily dependent on sighting pins, then one day decide to go back to the barebow experience and find yourself suddenly lost as your about to take a shot that your hit percentage statistics might take a nose dive. Bare bows are fine if all you use is bare bows. As an occasional thing they are okay, but are the least precise tool in your hunting arsenal.

Buy a bare bow if you are flush with cash and either want to try them out or need to do the trad bow missions, and accept that their performance is not the best. If the trad bows were so good bow manufacturers wouldn't have spent so much time and energy dabbling in fancy cams, cable systems and modern high tech bow sights in the first place.

[Yukon Moose]

Originally posted by peaty29:

I have been using a Snakebite since early in my "career". I have it currently at level 15. I am considering hanging it up and trying out a longbow. For those that have experience with it, how does it compare? I know the aiming is dramatically different, but what about penetration and spook radius? I am on the fence and not sure if I would be a wise/wasted investment.

you should gor play on the target range and get what the site picture is and get used to it some....go chase pheasants and practice 20m and under...go chase rabbits and turkey if you get bored with that...deer and elk need be close shots or you end up with lots of tracking if its not a heart shot..you get lots of single lung on big stuff, try make sure they are broadside as well...its not a bad bow once you fool around with it and figure out what it can do

[HooCairs 🏹]

Spook radius is not known. You can only get opinion.
Performance can be compared here:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2947885579

[peaty29]

I ended getting a longbow with daily mission earnings. It is a very interesting weapon. At 20 you aim at the knees and at 30 you aim dead on the point. The wobble and short hold time are brutal at level 1. I look forward to leveling it to get longer than 3 or 4 seconds of draw.

[hunterPRO1]

I love the longbow. But it's one of those things you use for the challenge, not for the efficiency.

[peaty29]

Originally posted by HooCairs 🏹:

Spook radius is not known. You can only get opinion.
Performance can be compared here:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2947885579

I have used that chart more than is healthy.

[badbart966]

The Longbow should be converted into a spear and thrown at animals from a fast moving Jeep.