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Offline Cloudfeather

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"Catfish Hunter" Osage Selfbow: 56# @ 28"
« on: April 22, 2015, 01:07:02 pm »
This is a bow made from my stash of 60 year old log staves. So much work to clean the petrified crap off of them, but definitely worth it. This character stave yielded this baby. The skin is channel cat that I hooked on a bank line about a year ago while fishing for carp. With carp, I skin em and throw them in the garden. With the catfish, I did the same but I took the meat and fried it up. Some of the best fish I've ever had.  Hope y'all enjoy. :)

62" Tip to Tip
Channel Catfish Skins
Cow Horn Tip Overlays
Scrap Leather Grip
Strunk Style Lace Pattern
Asymmetrical Limb Design: Top Limb 1" longer
3/16" Positive Tiller
56# @ 28"
« Last Edit: April 22, 2015, 09:33:08 pm by Marc St Louis »
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Offline Cloudfeather

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Re: "Catfish Hunter" Osage Selfbow: 56# @ 28"
« Reply #1 on: April 22, 2015, 01:07:43 pm »
More pictures...
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Offline Aaron H

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Re: "Catfish Hunter" Osage Selfbow: 56# @ 28"
« Reply #2 on: April 22, 2015, 01:13:08 pm »
Great looking bow you got there
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Offline PEARL DRUMS

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Re: "Catfish Hunter" Osage Selfbow: 56# @ 28"
« Reply #3 on: April 22, 2015, 01:40:51 pm »
Fine bow right there.
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Offline Stoker

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Re: "Catfish Hunter" Osage Selfbow: 56# @ 28"
« Reply #4 on: April 22, 2015, 02:10:15 pm »
Very nice
Thanks leroy
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Offline Parnell

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Re: "Catfish Hunter" Osage Selfbow: 56# @ 28"
« Reply #5 on: April 22, 2015, 02:47:07 pm »
That's a real beauty.  Wonderful job, congratulations.
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Offline bubby

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Re: "Catfish Hunter" Osage Selfbow: 56# @ 28"
« Reply #6 on: April 22, 2015, 02:49:12 pm »
Sweet!!
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Offline sieddy

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Re: "Catfish Hunter" Osage Selfbow: 56# @ 28"
« Reply #7 on: April 22, 2015, 02:57:28 pm »
Outstanding!  :)
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Offline Pat B

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Re: "Catfish Hunter" Osage Selfbow: 56# @ 28"
« Reply #8 on: April 22, 2015, 03:02:39 pm »
Boy, I love the looks of the catfish skins and the bow looks pretty good too.
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Offline Will H

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Re: "Catfish Hunter" Osage Selfbow: 56# @ 28"
« Reply #9 on: April 22, 2015, 03:32:31 pm »
Like I said on FB, real nice work! Tiller looks spot on!
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Offline George Tsoukalas

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Re: "Catfish Hunter" Osage Selfbow: 56# @ 28"
« Reply #10 on: April 22, 2015, 04:09:58 pm »
I was going to ask you if you named the bow after a baseball player. Then I figured you were too young to remember Jim "Catfish" Hunter.
At any rate that bow is a beauty!
Jawge
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Offline alwayslookin

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Re: "Catfish Hunter" Osage Selfbow: 56# @ 28"
« Reply #11 on: April 22, 2015, 04:18:33 pm »
Nice bow man. Job well done
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Offline PAHunter

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Re: "Catfish Hunter" Osage Selfbow: 56# @ 28"
« Reply #12 on: April 22, 2015, 05:44:17 pm »
Very nice bow man!  Now you got me thinking about trying that.  ;)
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Offline Mark Smeltzer

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Re: "Catfish Hunter" Osage Selfbow: 56# @ 28"
« Reply #13 on: April 22, 2015, 05:47:22 pm »
That is a very nice bow! Awesome Job!
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Offline Peacebow_Coos

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Re: "Catfish Hunter" Osage Selfbow: 56# @ 28"
« Reply #14 on: April 22, 2015, 07:33:47 pm »
Beautiful bow
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