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bamboo backed and bellied hickory bow
superdav95:
I haven't posted in a little while but I have been making some bows lately. This one is a third attempt of this style ive made. It pulls about 56lbs at 28". its about 67" ntn. its quite narrow at about 1.3" at the fade and gradually narrows to the tips that are very narrow. The speeds out of this bow were very good. The speeds averaged around mid 190s fps with 500 grain arrow. high 180s fps with 550 grain arrow. Its near center shot with the shelf cut in. It also favors i tiny bit to the shelf side. The arrows flight is very straight out of the bow. I shot both 350 spine and 300 spine. it shot well with either. This bow shoot about as well as my other one and is very accurate shooter. well as accurate as i can get it anyway! The reflex is also very impressive with this bow. it retained 4" of reflex after shooting in. I started out with about 4.5" after glue up of the belly lams. I had pretillered this bow out to 20" after assembling the boo backing lan to the hickory core. This helps alot as i did not want to scrape my belly lams too much. A little side tiller to fine tune and good to go. It is an inch longer on top limb and positive tiller about 1/8". no handshock and is very smooth. Ill include some pics here and will try to link a couple videos of me shooting it in slow mo. sorry no full draw yet. i forgot to do that! wheres my head at!
superdav95:
Here’s a couple videos one of me slow mo shooting bow about 20 yards away. I had my wife trying to get straight behind me and high up enough above me to get a good view of the arrow flight path but it only kinda worked. You guys get the idea….
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/yl2eex169glvbobg7u5sn/IMG_8407.MOV?rlkey=yarjkqcf6qbb3raiq38h4q7jc&dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/r0a4a3w9u8byif3py0p1f/IMG_8410.MOV?rlkey=scwrowl12asinvdn6sx9syc5o&dl=0
Kidder:
Sick bow Dave! You’re not allowed to build a bow like that - too complicated for my mind! Great job.
superdav95:
--- Quote from: Kidder on May 29, 2024, 10:51:04 pm ---Sick bow Dave! You’re not allowed to build a bow like that - too complicated for my mind! Great job.
--- End quote ---
hahaha. Thanks kidder!
Muskyman:
Great looking bow Dave. Impressive speed too.
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