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mullet:
   I was just curious what everybodies responce would be with this question.A few people on here know I like short bows and my favorite "model" is the 48" Bear Kodiak Magnum.Yes I have one and love shooting it.
   The question is,does anybody think  this bow can be duplicated in wood?With or without backing and a 28" 0r 30" draw? But still keep the speed,like not being dragged down with too much sinew for an example.And to keep it simple,without horn backing.

1/2primitive:
Bamboo backed bamboo, perhaps? Or bamboo backed Osage? With a reflex-deflex design.
     Sean

bowmo:
I don't think so myself. That length is just too short to handle that kind of draw length and still shoot good. I would think if you made an osage bow from billets in which you spliced in alot of deflex and then reflex and recurved the limbs and then backed with rawhide prior to tillering, you could get a good hunting weight bow around 52" long that could pull back to 28". You would need some top quailty osage to produce a great shooter though.

dan

Justin Snyder:
You had to go and add the no horn at the end didn't you.  I know it can be done with horn, so I know the wood can bent that much. I suspect it can be done, but it would take a bowyer more qualified than me to do it.  Justin

If its OK I would like to add another question to this.  How short is to short to be stable and shoot accurate?

huntersim:
Eddie, I bet it would be hard to duplicate the Bear 48" mag. But I know you can build short bows without sinew and make em perform pretty good. I have a r/d  thats about 48" and it starts to hit the wall about 26". Another, I posted, is around 51"-52" and my brother hunted with it all season. It performs well enough to kill any deer in the US. Dont think I would hunt griz with it though. I think it pules well to 28". A lot of it depends on the design. A r/d will get you close, if you pay attention to how much, or sharp the deflex is, and where the reflex is.

I know you said no horn but, I built one sorta like John S. builds, with horn on the belly and bamboo on the back. It draws to 28" pretty well. When I first built it I had it tillered to about 63 lbs. but i didnt like the tiller so i changed it a bit and brought it down to 56 lbs. It shoots well enough that I might consider hunting griz with it.

Ive been thinking of building one similar to it, but flipping the tips real hard (sorta like that new glass bow being made). I think if you did that and used the best materials you could get, you could get real close to a 48" bow that would draw 28-29" and 60 lbs. more so if it had a mild r/d profile.

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