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Found a picture of my first selfbow deer

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Flntknp17:
I found this picture the other day when I was going through a box of things I hadn't seen in a long time.  This is me in 1997 with my first selfbow deer.  I was 16 and it was my second deer overall.  I had killed a deer the year before with an old Browning recurve that I got at a garage sale and was totally hooked on traditional archery.  I cut the osage tree in Kansas in summer of 1996 and then let it season a year and this was my second bow from it.  The bow was unbacked osage and pulled 63#@27" and it became my favorite hunting bow for 20 years until it finally raised a splinter in 2017 and got a well earned retirement.  I can still remember every second of seeing that little buck work his way to me and seeing the Zwicky disappear and stick in the dirt on the other side.  I turn 40 next month and I was 16 in the picture, truly, making wood bows has been a part of me most of my life.  Love seeing all your pictures!  Keep posting them

Matt

Hawkdancer:
Hope the years have not taken a toll on you!  Nice buck!  Especially since it was the first one!  And you made the bow!
Hawkdancer

Pappy:
Very nice , thanks for sharing that picture and story. Pappy

PaSteve:
 Cool story. Nice buck, too.

Allyn T:
That's awesome man!

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