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Offline NTProf

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board bows and hunting
« on: October 12, 2009, 01:34:38 pm »
How many of you are hunting with a bow made from a board this year? There was an article in PA this issue about hunting elk with a board bow. It said that we often use boards as a way of learning to build bows, and then move on to staves. So how many of you will be hunting with a board this year? Type of wood? Dimensions? Pictures?
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Offline kylerprochaska

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« Reply #1 on: October 12, 2009, 01:47:20 pm »
I did a "type" of hunting with my first bow....its 70" maybe 45lbs @ 28" red oak board ....I mainly used it this last summer for bowfishing...it seemed to hold up to the sport pretty well...

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Offline Pat B

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« Reply #2 on: October 12, 2009, 01:54:02 pm »
This year I'm hunting primarily with a yew selfbow from a stave. I will also hunt with a boo back and belly bow David Knight gave me and it has an ipe board center lam. ;D
  Once a stave or board becomes a bow you can hardly tell the difference in many cases. A bow is a bow and as long as it is sound and well tillered it doesn't matter if it was made with a stave or board.
  I have made and hunted with quite a few board bows over the years. Most were backed with hickory or boo though. I have never made a self board bow but many have and have hunted with them.
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Offline Tom Leemans

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Re: board bows and hunting
« Reply #3 on: October 12, 2009, 02:25:19 pm »
Mark Baker just did an article on it in PA.
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Offline George Tsoukalas

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« Reply #4 on: October 12, 2009, 03:00:50 pm »
No not this year but I have hunted with board bows.  Jawge
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Offline Kent D.

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« Reply #5 on: October 12, 2009, 03:24:47 pm »
In a way.  Im hunting with a lam bow this season.  bamboo backed ipe with an ipe belly lam.  I have taken plenty of deer, hogs, rabbits, and squirrel with board bows before. 
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Offline cracker

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« Reply #6 on: October 12, 2009, 04:38:49 pm »
I'm hunting with a 60# red oak board bow this year pyramid design backed with turkey net to give it a little of a camo effect.Ron
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Offline Canoe

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Re: board bows and hunting
« Reply #7 on: October 12, 2009, 05:41:43 pm »
Howdy Group,

Yes, I'm a big fan of the board Bow.  And, both my buddy and I are hunting with Red Oak board Bows.  They're ALB's, about 1-3/4" until the outer 1/3rd where they narrow to about 3/8" at the tips.  His bow is 51#@29-1/2", and mine is about 47#@28".

I had just made my friends bow and gave it to him this last August,  And after going shooting with it a few times, he liked it so much that he put away his F.G. re-curve, and he took up his "new huntin' Long bow."  He said that his new board bow is smooth to draw and to shoot.  And, he likes the primitive aspect.
(As a gift, I'm currently making him a plains style quiver and shoulder bag out of deer hides from deer he had shot.)

All the Best, and safe hunting,
Canoe

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Offline stallion27

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Re: board bows and hunting
« Reply #8 on: October 12, 2009, 06:04:25 pm »
I am hunting with a 60#@28" 58" NTN HBI flatbow this year. All the bows that I have ever hunted with or have made have been from boards.
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Offline Hillbilly

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« Reply #9 on: October 12, 2009, 08:51:05 pm »
This year, I've been hunting mostly with a piece of ipe board with a piece of bamboo glued on the back: http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php/topic,12160.0.html

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Offline Wulamoc

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« Reply #10 on: October 12, 2009, 09:20:48 pm »
I have hunted the last three seasons with a red oak board bow backed with hickory (50#@ 28").  Followed the Mickey Lotz design.  I'm getting pretty good with it but no harvest yet.
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Offline Justin Snyder

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« Reply #11 on: October 12, 2009, 11:23:28 pm »
I guess I haven't learned anything yet because I still like board bows. I hunt with them whenever I can.
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Offline sailordad

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« Reply #12 on: October 12, 2009, 11:27:19 pm »
i like making,shooting/hunting with board bows,or any bow truthfully
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« Reply #13 on: October 13, 2009, 01:12:41 am »
Yup. I'm a board bow guy. I have a 50# Hickory I am pretty proud of. It ain't pretty but it is a good shooter. It lives because the guys on here taught me how to save a splintered limb.
I'll put up some pics later. Oh by the way, I hunt Mullies and Elk in Colorado. Am looking forward to some varmit(Rabbits and Yotes) hunting with the osage I'm working right now. "Too Short Osage"

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Offline NTProf

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« Reply #14 on: October 13, 2009, 11:26:09 am »
Thanks for all the replies. I am currently working on a sapling bow, but I just finished a maple board bow that is a great shooter. So I might hunt with it this year. I will try to get pictures up if my daughter will let me use her camera. I still like board bows.
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