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Slivershooter:
Yep,
60" Osage 58#@29"

david w.:
ok stupid question i always hear people talk about "medicine".
what is it?

sonny:
Good "medicine" can be added to a bow for instance by applying sinew, rawhide, antler overlays, etc. that was given to you by a buddy who harvested the animal it came from. I have some deer sinew ( a buddy gave me from deer killed this past fall) that I'll use on a future bow that'll have Good Medicine.   

 Jay Massey created his Medicine Bow from a hickory sapling cut on his older brother's land, in hopes that the bow would contain some of his brother's powerful spirit....certainly Good Medicine.
   
I think non-Native Americans likely think about Good Medicine (or mojo) differently than Native Americans. Hopefully Bob will see this and add his opinion as to what constitutes  Good Medicine.
 

huntertrapper:
I think of good medicine as luck. Or something special. Something that really matters most. "Medicine" is a big part of hunting and trapping for me, medicine is also my respect for the animals i hunt and kill.

Pat B:
My particular Medicine Bow is a copy of Jay Massey's. Every component of the bow came from someone else and all I did was built it. Probably 8 or 10 folks contributed.  It is a 60" sinew backed hickory bow with rawhide cover on the back. This bow won BOM a few years back. I don't have pics handy but you can probably look it up.      Pat

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