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2007 Elk Hunting Bow - (Bamboo / Ipe)
davidneils:
I've finally made a bow I feel comfortable taking an elk with. It's a simple D bow made of Ipe with a Bamboo back. It's 64 inches NTN with 1 1/8" at the fadeouts and 1/2" tips. It pulls 56# at 28" and shoots a 550 grain arrow very well out to 25 yards. I'm confident that it will down an elk at 20 yards if I have that opportunity come September.
Thanks to Pat B. for all the help he provided a few months ago regarding tillering. It helped tremendously.
http://www.telementor.org/images/davidn/elk_bow.jpg
Now I'm working on a reflex/deflex bow using the same materials and nearly the same measurements. It will be fun to compare the two bows.
Kegan:
Sweet bow there! That'll take out an elk ;D!
cowboy:
Hey David, by the looks of it - I'd be comfortable too ;D. Hope you get your elk. Can't wait till fall, I'm thinking their's going to be lots of huntin pictures.
davidneils:
Thanks guys. 2006 was a fun but humbling season. I helped a friend on a moose hunt and then the plan was for him to help me with a elk hunt by calling and packing. Well, at the last few seconds I made the mistake of moving uphill to adjust a cow elk decoy and I left my recurve on the ground. The bull came rambling back in and I had no choice but to call from the prone position right underneath the decoy. I have to admit it was fun when the bull poked his head out from behind a juniper tree at 50 yards to hear my call. At that moment I moved the decoy and he was completely convinced it was a cow. In he came to within 5 feet of my friend. The bull didn't see what he wanted and started headed back to the draw to check on his cows. As he turned to leave my friend stood up, came to full draw and sliced the aorta off the top of the heart. The bull piled up within seconds of being shot.
My bow will be with me the entire season this year! :D
http://www.telementor.org/images/davidn/David_2006elk.jpg
cowboy:
Awesome animals! Wish I was in elk country. Have only been once - spent a week trying but the critters weren't cooperating.
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