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Finished composite hickory bow/ pics

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BowEd:
Thanks Mike.....Kuddos to ya for exploring and perfecting the art of making and shooting these horn bows.What sense is there in making them really without seeing what they can do.A thumb ring I suppose relieves any finger pinch that may happen.I've never tried it yet.I'll have to get after my Turkish prospects in the future here.It's as long a dedicated road to this bow making that a person wants to be on for sure.That's the beauty of it though.Always room for improvement.I always remember a saying I read Jim Hamm write when I started.You got to be more persistent than smart sometimes making these bows or rather you can't be afraid to fail is what I get from it.
I figure to shoot this bow in quite a bit then take a fps reading on it.Breaking it in.By my naked eye shooting I'd say you were'nt too far off there.I'll see once.The old unmerciful extractor of truth reveals all.I know I won't put in the time and perfection in finishing that you did on your horn bows.
As with my coondogs I believe in calling a spade a spade in ability no matter if it's my dog or bow or someone else's as well as giving credit to where it is deserved.Trying to hide behind excuses for set or terminology to describe a design does not improve a person's construction or tillering ability to make these bows.It's very hard to hide set on an all reflexed bow.It can't be done.I realized hunting coondogs in these competition hunts that a man with excuses about his dog will never improve.A sorry man handles a sorry dog.
I notice shooting this bow like the static bow I shot that the arrow flight is not as clean consistently as less reflexed bows.Pisses me off really.Could be my crappy form a bit too.Also a person needs to check these arrow knocks occasionally too.Chances are a knock can get blown apart for a potential dry fire.That can end the fun quickly too.I'm shooting heavier arrows to drain energy using fast flight and will never go below 10gpp arrows.Suits me fine right now since I'm lucky enough here to be in a good hunting area for game and that's really my main concern anyway.

Urufu_Shinjiro:
Yeah, thumb ring really helps with finger pinch and it also gives you a few inches more draw length.

BowEd:
I see.I can see the advantage of it there.Especially too in that it will lower the drag and friction factor on the release compared to a finger release.All up sides I quess but still way different.

Pat B:
Very cool bow, Ed. I have one similar in my future...if that time ever comes.  ;D

BowEd:
This bow is really different here compared to the others I've done in the past in that besides coming very close to my draw weight in construction it takes more what I call soft set after shooting.That turned out to be that the sinew was not fully cured yet.I started with a flat core and glued the reflexed horn onto the core which was different than the ones in the past which was a flat horn with no reflex in it onto a flat core.A pic of core after horn glued on this one.Hope I explained that properly.

I can see that one limb got more reflex after horn glue up.That was really the only adjustment I needed to make on this one losing 2.5 pounds.I put that limb as my top limb also.After bracing most times I still need to press the string on the weaker limb onto belly to strain the stronger limb for maybe 5 seconds for it to come into tiller.Then throughout the shooting  the tiller stays.This extra horn thickness on here must have something to do with that.Suppose that's normal too.I fixed that retillering.

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