After the bamboo backed Ipe I planned to hunt with broke at Mojam, I decided to make a replacement. But I wanted to try a new combo, hackberry backed Ipe. Since I don’t know how the combo would work I bumped up the dimensions a bit form what I did on the bamboo backed one. It’s 69” nock to nock, 1” wide from center to midlimb, then Tapers to 3/8” nocks. Set is setting at about 1”. Tips are come style cow horn. I got a bit thin and you can see through the horn on places. The handle wrap is ostrich with 1/4” wide goat lace done in double diamond weave.
It’s not a very efficient combo as the hackberry doesn’t really stain the ipe much. It pulls 75# at 27” and throws a 700gr arrow at 162fps and a 1,000gr arrow at 145fps. Compared to the bamboo backed Ipe that pulled 65# at 27” that through the same arrows at 160fps and 142fps. So the hackberry backed shoots a smidge faster but pulls 10# more. With the 1,000gr arrows it’s plenty fast for the distances I can shoot well and makes the bow quite quiet and really isn’t much slower than the 700gr for how much more momentum it gains.
Thanks for looking
Kyle
