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Eric Krewson:
A few years ago, I made a bow for a friend to the exact specs he wanted 52#@27", he called me a month or so later and told me his bow had gotten stronger and felt like it was least 60# at his draw length now. I thought "no way", he brought it over to my house and I checked the poundage, it was 60# at 27 now. The bow was made from a 20year old well-seasoned osage stave.

In all the bows I have made his bow is the only one that gained poundage until today, this time it was my personal bow that I have been shooting since 2015. With some health issues I couldn't shoot it and made a bow in the low 40s that I could shoot easily.

I started integrating "Old Faithful" back into my shooting routine today and it felt like the poundage had gone up to me. When I made it was 52#@25", I have put tens of thousands of arrows through it since, for the last 3 years it has been hanging on the wall in my shop un-shot.

After I finished my shooting session off my deck at 3D deer targets, I took it out to my shop to measure the poundage, the bow was 55#@25" now, it has definitely gone up.

I have been coming back physically and doing weight lifting at the gym just to build my bow shooting muscles. To shoot this bow I have a way to go, dropping the poundage of this bow is not something I want do, it is the best bow I ever made.   

Badger:
  I have had several gain small amounts of weight and a few gained quite a bit. An elm bow I had went from 57# to 70# over a few years and then stabilize. I had an osage bow I used at the flights for maybe 10 years and on every trip out I had to remove a couple of pounds.

George Tsoukalas:
No, I never had  a well seasoned bow gain weight. Jawge

PaSteve:
Yes. One particular pyramid osage bow gained 13 lbs. It was made in 1998 from a stave that had been seasoned for 7 years. I hunted with the bow in 98 and it was 59#@25.5". I retired the bow after killing a nice 8pt buck. About 4 years ago I decided I wanted to start shooting the bow again. I couldn't get close to full draw and thought I'd gotten much weaker in the last 20 years. It really bothered me to think I had gotten that much weaker. Then it dawned on me to check the weight. Boy, was I surprised when it pulled 72#@25". Anyway, that bow now sits on my bow rack.

simk:
intersting.
how would you explain it, if not by changes in humidity and/or temperature?
 :)

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