Annual Give Away Prize Pot

[sleek]

Up for grabs at the winners choice will be:

A bow built by myself for the winner

A bow built and donated by Eric Krewson

A bow with much PA history behind it from PatB

An osage stave from Sleek

A bow built custom by Arvin Weaver

A bow donated by Mullet, AKA Eddie Parker, made by Gordon Ferlitsch for the 2013 Bow Trade

[Pat B]

I have a bow I will offer that has a lot of PA history. I made a copy of Jay Massey's Medicine Bow, a 60" sinew backed hickory bow with rawhide covering. Jay has always been one of my archery heroes. This bow is 60" t/t, 58#@26" and I built it in 2005. The interesting and historic thing about this bow is every part of it came from someone else, most PA members, all I did was put it all together. The hickory came from Steve Parker(Hillbilly), deer sinew from Glenn Doane(my inspiration for making this Jay Massey copy), emu sinew from David Knight, deer rawhide from James Nguyen c/o Eddie Parker(mullet), brain tanned handle wraps from Jamie Leffler, cow horn strike plate from Alan Brown, String silencers from Art Butner(artcher1),paint from Marcia Brennan(my wife), and hide glue from Vinson Minor.
 I offered this bow to any of the contributes to use in a hunt. Jamie Leffler killed a doe in Connecticut Oct/06 with a horseweed arrow and stone head and Eddie Parker(mullet) an Osceola turkey in Oct/07. I believe I made the B-50 string. I have all of this info documented on the bow.
 I'll take some pics later today and add them here.

[Pappy]

Great, I will be glad to offer up a bow or maybe a knife if I can ever get back home. Sounds like some great giveaways. I will be in touch Sleek. Pappy

[JW_Halverson]

Wow, Pat! I have heard of this legendary bow! It's simply dripping with mojo. Wow!

[Pat B]

Yeah, John, it was a fun project and the community effort was amazing. It's time to pass it on. 

[Pappy]

Beautiful bow Pat, that was just before my time but remember seeing it. Jays book was one of my first books. Pappy

[Pat B]

Pappy, I have 2 of Jay's books he signed to me; the Bowyers Craft(1987) and the Book of Primitive Archery(1990). Prized in my collection of archery books.

[Pappy]

Ya mine was bowyer craft signed  , lent it to someone to read and never got it back and can’t remember who it was, that ended my days of lending books. 🤔😒 Pappy

[sleek]

I have a bow I will offer that has a lot of PA history. I made a copy of Jay Massey's Medicine Bow, a 60" sinew backed hickory bow with rawhide covering. Jay has always been one of my archery heroes. This bow is 60" t/t, 58#@26" and I built it in 2005. The interesting and historic thing about this bow is every part of it came from someone else, most PA members, all I did was put it all together. The hickory came from Steve Parker(Hillbilly), deer sinew from Glenn Doane(my inspiration for making this Jay Massey copy), emu sinew from David Knight, deer rawhide from James Nguyen c/o Eddie Parker(mullet), brain tanned handle wraps from Jamie Leffler, cow horn strike plate from Alan Brown, String silencers from Art Butner(artcher1),paint from Marcia Brennan(my wife), and hide glue from Vinson Minor.
 I offered this bow to any of the contributes to use in a hunt. Jamie Leffler killed a doe in Connecticut Oct/06 with a horseweed arrow and stone head and Eddie Parker(mullet) an Osceola turkey in Oct/07. I believe I made the B-50 string. I have all of this info documented on the bow.
 I'll take some pics later today and add them here.

I had heard of and read about this storied bow. I could never part with that bow, and you offering it up is something very special. Thank you so much! Whoever chooses this bow out the pot will certainly be getting a very valuable piece of this community.

[Pat B]

Kevin, I have a few other bows, maybe not as storied as this one but it makes my wife happy to see some of them disappear. 
 My next offer will be from a stave I got from the guy that started BOM, Don Berg. Good story there too.

[Eric Krewson]

Here are more pictures of the bow I plan to donate; like I mentioned, this is a 62" bow, R\H, 62#@25", it is tillered for a split finger release, I am lousy three under shooter so I can't say how it will perform with a three under release. The recommended max drawlength for this bow is 25" to 26". It doesn't stack at all at these draw lengths but might if drawn any further.

The bow comes with a D-97 string, I have never had a problem shooting a low stretch string on one of my selfbows.

Here is the strung profile.



Darin is much stronger than I am, here is the bow pulled to 25".



Of course, I will spruce it up a bit with new rest material, I "may" give it a light sanding and a total refinish job, I hate to lose the dark patina though.

I don't stitch my handle leather, I have a technique to make the ends butt up almost seamlessly that looks neat.



The handle is bulbus and fits the hand nicely, the handle may be small for someone who has giant hands.



The limbs are 1 1/4" wide tapering to 7/16" tips, the belly profile is rounded somewhat, the tips are mostly round. I put my overlays on with an extra stringing groove; the bow can be easily and safely strung with a simple parachute cord stringer that won't slip off. I will ship the bow with the right stringer.



The rounded belly profile;





The lettering;

[bjrogg]

Awesome bows guys .

Bjrogg

[sleek]

Thanks Eric! Thats an awesome looking bow with a real sweet bend. That patina gives it a look thats hard to replicate.

[Eric Krewson]

I have been holding on to this tillering gizmo, just waiting for a chance to donate it for a special cause, looks like I have one with this fund raiser. Out of the 400 or so tillering gizmos that I have made, this one is the most unusual.

I cut my wood for most of the gizmos that I make from standing dead cedar trees on my neighbor's land, he gave me the OK to cut whatever I wanted.

As I was slicing up the last log that that I cut into gizmo blanks, I found two 00 buckshot imbedded side by side deeply in the trunk. The tree had been dead for at least 50 years, possibly more. The tree had grown over the buckshot when it was alive; there was no entry wound on the tree. Someone many years ago had taken the shot, could it have been a deer hunter following his hounds or someone in the woods plinking with their shotgun, I will never know.

Here it is;








 

 

[sleek]

Wow Eric! Thats a really cool one. I greatly appreciate you offering that up! And its really pretty on top of all that. Whoever wins and picks that will have a tool that can tell a story for sure!