I have only been able to shoot it once. But as of right now, the bow is beautiful. Perfect for my size, in a very small girl, and it's simple design is really beautiful. Its comfortable and easy to shoot. It took a while to get to me but that's ok. It's also pretty quiet, if that's what you're looking for. I will say ita definitely too small for my 6' 3" boyfriend. Incase anyone needs to know.

Just received the bow today and shot at least 100 arrows. The bow strings very easily like it's supposed to and holds true every shot. It's a very light but durable frame, handles 500-800gr arrows without any issue. My only complaint, I did not receive the Otter Ball silencers in the packaging

The bow is quite without the string silencers and even quieter with them. It is definitely the quietest bow I have shot. It looks good. It is very light, and the balance is in the exact center of the grip. It has a positive tiller, but that seems to be by design because it shoots very well. I'm only doing back yard shooting at a hay bale, but so far I am pleased.

This bow is very well crafted. Unlike what the description says it's actually a deflex reflex bow kind of a modern native American / mongolian hybrid bow. Designed to be shot off the hand right or left handed, western or eastern styles will work. The bow it self feels light but very sturdy in the hand, draws very smooth with little to no stacking felt. I bought the 45lbs @28" but the bow can be safely drawn to 30" I wouldn't draw it past that. I've shot both wood and carbon arrows from the bow both shot fine. The wood arrows were spined at 45/50 and 28.75" long with 125gr Bodkin tips. The carbon arrows are 400gr 28.75"long with 125gr bodkin tips as well. Both sets are 3 fletched with 5" left wing shield cut feathers. Buy this bow you'll love it, and the fur string silencers look beautiful. The only down side is that there's no paper work with the bow or markings on the bow it self so if your new to archery setup could be tricky. I weighed mine with a bow scale to make sure draw weight was right.

A point of technical clarity: this is not a recurve bow. it's a reflex bow. The string does not contact the limps other than in the notch.

To date, this is the most fun to shoot bow we've owned. At lower draw weights (ours is 30 lbs) it seems solidly built. As with anything, the higher the stresses the quicker you're going to find out just how well it's made. But we haven't seen anything that might deter us from buying another with a heavier draw. We probably would have already, if not for our compulsion to try new styles, rather than sticking with what we know we like. So far, this has been our favorite though.

This is a very light-weight and well balanced bow. While, as a 49 year old male, I've absolutely loved shooting it, it's been especially great for my young nieces and nephews, just learning to shoot off the hand. Even my 10 year old niece has taken to it, over shooting off the shelf with a snakebow. Some (with large hands) have commented that they felt compelled to wrap the grip to make it a bit thicker. As you don't really grip a bow tightly, I haven't felt the same need. I actually feel like I have better control with this bow than I do our fiberglass bows that do have a wrapped grip. To further qualify that, I wear a size 9 glove, which is a medium from some manufacturers, a large with others. But, I would say I have medium size hands, rather than large.

This bow has been especially great for helping me improve my thumb release. Probably because the grip is narrower than the limbs, but switching between 3-finger release and thumb, there's less of an adjustment. Where with fiberglass bows, I sometimes feel like I'm holding the bow a little sideways when shooting thumb. Thirty pounds is also a good weight to start shooting thumb release - not too light and not so heavy that your thumb is sore after only a few shots. I don't use a ring. Just a couple layers of cheap athletic tape wrapped around my thumb, when I'm going to be shooting for a while, works great at this weight bow.

Our bow came with two sets of string silencers, one on the string, one in a package. We tried it with the one that was already on the string and it fell off within a few shots. We really haven't found the bow to be excessively loud, so I haven't bothered learning how to properly tie the little strips of fur to keep them from falling off.

The main criticism we have about this bow is the thinness of the string it comes with. Like our bow collection, we don't typically buy the same exact arrows twice, no matter how much we like a particular brand. And of the half dozen different styles of arrow we have (unspecified wood, bamboo, aluminum, and several sets of carbon fiber) only one set of carbon fiber will knock on this strings rather thin serving. This is the first bow we've owned that we couldn't use all our different style of arrows with. We'll probably be getting a new string soon though, as the string that came with the bow is already fraying near the notch, due to the notch apparently needing a touch more sanding than how it came out of the box. The arrows we have that work well with the included string were TTAD red turkey feather carbon fiber arrows, also bought through amazon.

On a more positive note about the string: the serving is perfectly centered. So you can fire it with either end up and it won't matter. This is more important considering there are no markings on the bow to indicate one end from the other, if you were to use a string with an off-centered serving. Even the poundage was stuck on the bow as a removable price sticker. Which we used a metallic Sharpie to label the weight, should we buy another at a higher weight later.

Some have commented that this bow looks like a work of art. Ours didn't. In an apparent attempt to over-package the bow to deter damage in shipping, the manufacturer unnecessarily used a transparent blue garden-hose-like tubing on each end, which marred the finish, likely due to being subjected to too much heat at some point in transit or storage. Or maybe it was packaged too soon, before the finish had cured.

We didn't buy the bow just to decorate a wall. We bought it to use. And a little light sanding with a scouring pad was all that was needed to remove the sticky residue left on the bow. Some light sanding with fine sandpaper would no doubt finish it further, if desired, but it would need to be repolished afterwards, and the pattern left from the tubing actually gives the bow a bit more character, IMHO. We contacted TopArchery to let them know what happened so they can improve their packaging. So hopefully they've done so. They said they would look into it, but they also said they were going to send us a small refund, which never came. Not that we requested any kind of compensation in the first place, mind you. As, like I said, cosmetic imperfections didn't matter to us.

It's hard to comment on value, considering how frequently prices vary. We bought it at a hundred bucks and relative to other offerings, it seems a pretty decent value in that range. For the money, we'd definitely buy this bow again, warts and all.

Update 030420. The string broke on me the other week, while in full draw (see last picture). Only threw off my shot a few inches. That was pretty crazy. After close inspection, I still can't figure out what needs more sanding, so I sanded everything in the area, whether it appeared to be rubbing on the string or not. This is the first string I've ever had break on me, so I probably shot it too long. If the end loops start fraying, stop shooting. Live and learn. We contacted Toparchery, as we couldn't figure out if we needed a 52" or 54" string. The one we had appeared to measure 53", but every string we found on amazon skipped that measurement. Toparchery told us to go with 54", but they volunteered to ship us another string too, as it really should have lasted a lot longer than that. So far that hasn't happened. So we bought a cheap Dacron B55 string on amazon for ten bucks, as we didn't want to get something more expensive until I figured out where the wear is coming from and fixed it. I've only shot with the new string a couple times, but so far so good. It's hard to find a string with a centered serving here. So, we bought a serving jig to do our own. Despite it's offset serving forcing us to always keep the same end up (until we re-serve it), the Dacron string accommodates all of our arrow notches, which it's been fun finally shooting real wood arrows with this bow, making me like it even more. I was also rather impressed that nothing happened to the bow itself when the string broke at full draw.