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Offline Pat B

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Re: 56 1/2" white oak bendy bow
« Reply #15 on: April 23, 2007, 02:00:03 pm »
Santtu, I use a rasp and scraper to build this and most of my bows.
   I believe a person should use as strong of a bow as they can comfortably shoot while hunting. I usually shoot around 55#@26".  In some states 35# is the minimum draw weight for big game hunting.
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Re: 56 1/2" white oak bendy bow
« Reply #16 on: April 23, 2007, 02:42:32 pm »
Quote from: a finnish native on April 23, 2007, 01:55:31 pm
say what you will, but I'd never go after an elk or a bear, deer, moose or so on, with a bow under 55#.
don't get me wrong though. just saying my opinion.

My dad killed several deer with a 45# recurve.
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Re: 56 1/2" white oak bendy bow
« Reply #17 on: April 23, 2007, 03:14:11 pm »
I will most likely be using a 45# bow for deer season this fall. 2 bad shoulders can't pull much.
I had to much fun as a teenager and am now paying the price.

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Re: 56 1/2" white oak bendy bow
« Reply #18 on: April 23, 2007, 04:57:41 pm »
Hmmm! The Native Americans here in the Northwest went after Grizlies with 40# and 45# bows. The trick is in the arrow. Bird points! Small obsidian points penitrate like crazy! Arrows will go in one side and out the other. Bear has no idea they are hit so you can put a couple more through before he even know he is dead or just sit back and leat em blead out.

Personaly, I have no nead or want to hunt bear. Look to much like a big ol dog to me! Plus, I dont think they taste too good!  ;D

By the way nice bow Pat! How the heck do you get so much time to make bows? Please tell us your secret!
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Re: 56 1/2" white oak bendy bow
« Reply #19 on: April 23, 2007, 05:13:06 pm »
David, with lots of screw ups in the "corner" most don't take much work to finish once the cobwebs are cleared...on the bows and in my head. ;D    Pat
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Re: 56 1/2" white oak bendy bow
« Reply #20 on: April 23, 2007, 05:14:14 pm »
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Plus, I dont think they taste too good!

Bear meat is delicious in my opinion, at least the ones we have here. I've ate lots of it over the years. I remember my dad telling me about killing one when he was living in Washington that had been eating salmon, he said it was fishy, nasty, and almost inedible.
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Re: 56 1/2" white oak bendy bow
« Reply #21 on: April 23, 2007, 06:06:24 pm »
............Iam with Hillbilly on this. Bear meat is delicious. I marinate steaks an roasts in mango or wild oranges. If don't have that applejuice will work fine. Over a campfire its a great meal. Fok's I  hunt with draw knives(obsidian of course) when last piece is left. Yummy! Oh well back to "the primitive food network" :D :D.......bob
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Re: 56 1/2" white oak bendy bow
« Reply #22 on: April 23, 2007, 07:04:05 pm »
I haven't taste bear but I like the bow ;)

Fine work of a  bend in the handle bow.
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Re: 56 1/2" white oak bendy bow
« Reply #23 on: April 23, 2007, 07:35:32 pm »
Anyone have a spare bear steak sitting arround? Maybe I'm missing something.  ;D
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Re: 56 1/2" white oak bendy bow
« Reply #24 on: April 23, 2007, 07:59:38 pm »
Thanks Andrew. I definitely won't be using this bow for bear hunting.  Pat
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Re: 56 1/2" white oak bendy bow
« Reply #25 on: April 23, 2007, 08:26:04 pm »
Yup bear roast is good eats, unless its a dump bear. One thing about bear its kinda like a pig once the skin is
off it looks like a person hangin there always gives me da creeps.

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Re: 56 1/2" white oak bendy bow
« Reply #26 on: April 23, 2007, 08:46:20 pm »
I shure do like lookin,at pics of yer stuff Pat.
Thanxx fer postin.
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Re: 56 1/2" white oak bendy bow
« Reply #27 on: April 23, 2007, 09:07:26 pm »
Sorry for "bearing " off at a tangent, Pat. Didn't mean to hijack your thread :)
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Re: 56 1/2" white oak bendy bow
« Reply #28 on: April 23, 2007, 10:09:06 pm »
Quote from: Hillbilly on April 23, 2007, 09:07:26 pm
Didn't mean to hijack your thread :)

I can hardly "bear" it when that happens.
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Re: 56 1/2" white oak bendy bow
« Reply #29 on: April 23, 2007, 10:22:48 pm »
Pretty cool.  I really starting to like bend in the handle bows.
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