Life is good

[Pappy]

Man what a great weekend, it was hot that's for sure but no one seemed to mind. We got all the ranges set and ready for the up coming shoot and also had a lot of time in the shop, fans going on high and lots of projects going on. Here are a few pictures of the fun. Bill and his new dog, she is working out fine. I got a new grain scale, don't really like digital but that is all you can buy now days and one of my Osage bow getting ready for my new R/D form.  I am curious to see how this works out.
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Another horn in the works. Jon making me a new string for my trade bow and also giving the other John lessons on string making. My travelling vet shows up for some maintenance work on Sally and Sister. 
Found out through the check up Sister's jaw is broken, probably been that way since her daddy tried to take her head off at 4 weeks old, the vet said she is in no pain and is eating well so just going to wait and see how it goes, it does make her have a cute smile.
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John's Hickory bow getting a new string. Making up and trying out some char cloth for flint and steel fire starting.
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Testing the char cloth and making up more. It works great. Sally just resting after a long morning chasing the Kobota
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Sister doing the same. John's Hickory getting a new string and also some heat treating and reflexing lessons for John. He is taking it all in like a sponge.
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More char cloth made up and ready for use. Just some hanging out and my Osage on the R/D form.
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Dan trying his hand at flint napping. John's Hickory off the form and ready for some moose over lays.
Chuck with a couple of knife projects.
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Me cutting in some self nocks on a set of arrows, John getting ready to put finish on his bow and Chuck working on some scales for his new knife.
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Me putting the final touches on my nocks. Chuck putting scales on his blade then some fish frying for supper, Woody and Kevin headed that up. Yum Yum.
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New string on my trade bow, man it shoots nice. Sister and me just taking it all in and a little rest before the meal.
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Osage on the form, Beau and Christina /Will and Emily and several others showed up for the meal, we had about 25 at this feed. Very good time and some great fellowship afterwards.
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Scales looking good on Chuck's pair of knives. My Osage off the form, can't wait to string it back up and see how it looks and holds, Looks pretty wicked right off the form. I had it 35@20 and tiller very even when I put it on the form Hope yall had a good one also. Look forward the this coming weekend, 4th of July so it will be a long one.
Life is Good.
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[lebhuntfish]

Looks like a fun weekend pappy! That Osage is looking good!
Do you have a good picture of your reflex caul? I'm wanting to make one and the one you have looks great.

Don't worry too much about sister's jaw.  That's not totally uncommon. Unfortunately that can happen when the puppies and bitch dog are not separated well while the puppies are small. The male will try to kill the litter so the bitch will come back into heat so he can breed her again.

Patrick

[Pappy]

Thanks for the in site Patrick, bad news is the male won't be getting a chance at it again, he is in dog heaven or maybe H#(( for doing that to Sister.  I will get a picture of the form but I think their is one a few pages back when I made it. 
Pappy

[lebhuntfish]

Thanks Pappy. 
I'm looking at just the plain reflex caul. I have an R/D caul that I like. 
Adding reflex has always been a challenge for me.

Patrick