Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: Titan_Bow on March 30, 2007, 03:46:13 pm
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OK, after some reworking, and a rawhide backing, this years turkey bow is finished. This little osage bow is 52" NTN, and 54" overall. It is pulling 55# at 28", and really screams an arrow. After shooting it all week, its holding about 2" of follow. I ended up having to back it, so I used rawhide, and sponged a camo finish on it. The arrows I made for this bow are maple, and come in at 760gr. The bow and arrows are just in time for my trip to Nebraska on Monday. Hopefully I will have some more pics to share after this little bow makes meat.
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Very nice turkey bow. Good luck on your hunting trip. Do you shoot for the head or try for the vitals? What sort of broadhead are you going to use? I've had terrible luck trying to kill turkeys with a bow.
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A nice short bow :)
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good lookin' weapon. Turkeys should be beginning to tremble in fear.
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It looks like the string angle is greater than 90 degrees on the full-draw picture - are you noticing any stack the last few inches of draw?
The bow looks very nicely made.
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Looks like a very nice setup. Tiller looks good and so do the arrows. I made a set a few years ago with the same color fletching...even the white splice.
I took a hunters safety course last year and they told us not to use red, white, blue or black when hunting turkeys. Some fool may mistake you for a turkey. Be careful and good luck. Pat
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Thant's a really nice bow, good job keeping it short and the draw long.
Sean
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Looks like a winning combo, good luck on the hunt.
VB
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Thanks for all the nice comments.
Tom Sawyer - I am going to shoot for the body. I am using my STOS 160s. I havent shot a turkey with a bow yet, but from what I've gathered, you want to hit 'em about where the wing meets the body if broadside.
Gordon - The bow does stack quite a bit. This is my first really short bow, I think I will bend some recurve into the tips of the next one I make to try and alleviate some of the stacking.
Pat B. - I'm going to be hunting Nebraska during archery only, so I hope some would not shoot at my fletching! :o
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I've seen alot of turkeys lost shooting for the vitals,unless real good or lucky shot.A turkey has to run to fly.If you hit them in the thigh,which is easier,they can't run or fly.Then you just have to miss the broadhead and spurs while you grab and strangle. :D P.S. use big broadheads
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I do love them short bows and that a good one. I always shoot just behind the wing body junction. I really love the paint job. Other than complete misses, I always got my bird. Whereabouts in Nebraska are you going?
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Nice backing. That's a good bow for a turkey blind. Then again, what would an Oregonian know about turkey hunting. ::)
J. D. Duff
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Sweet looking short bow Titan. Good luck huntin
DanaM
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great looking bow! I'm wondering that does the bow take set because of the very long draw? Even if it were sinew backed I'd only use 26" draw.
and no cryshals I assume? Love the stainjob on the rawhide. very neat.
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Was wondering about any updates to this thread. Really like the look of your bow and it has inspired me!!
How did the bow work in the blind??
How did the hunter work?? LOL
After hunting this year outside a blind, I have a year to make a short turkey bow to I can use in a blind.. My draw is 26 inches and I like to shoot 45 to 50 lbs.
Is 52" ntn pretty much as short as I would go too. Thanks for any help.
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Wow, I can't believe you got that much draw out of that design. Very impressive!
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Congrats on making such a short bow. Got to be a challenge :P In Montana, the Sioux would hunt bison with a short bow like that. got it set up for May Self Bow of the Month, too.
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Love small Bows!!Very neat.Hopefully you'll have better luck Turkey hunting than I did.
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Very nice short bow Titan. I have shot several turkeys with my store bought recurves, and only have recovered four. Once I started using some sort of "adder point" (kind of like a judo point behind a large broadhead) my success rate went WAY UP ;D Figure that the design stops such an easy pass through of the arrow, and adds a bunch of "THUMP". Its like hitting them with a train, instead of just an arrow. Hopefully I will be able to complete a huntable bow for the upcoming fall deer and turkey season. Congrats again, and good luck ;) David
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Very nice Titan,great job on a short bow. :)
Pappy
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Very nice bow. Congratulations. Jawge
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Thanks for the comments guys. My turkey hunt was very successful, even though I didnt bring home a bird. In the course of a 5 day hunt, I saw literally hundreds of turkeys. The place we were hunting was in southwestern Nebraska, and was a combination of riverbottom and prairie.
The evening we got there, we sat up on a bluff above the riverbottom to roost some birds, and it didnt take long before they were gobbling all up and down the bottom. we honed in on a spot that appeared to be the toughest spot on the bottom to get to, LOL. That first moring, I got set up before daylight, and after all the gobbling and yelping stopped, here comes a line of 5 big gobblers, with a handful of hens. They came by me at about 35 yards, and didnt seem to pay any attention to my calls or decoys. The gobblers would shock gobble to my calls, but would not come in or change there direction of travel. We spent the days spot and stalking on the prairie, and I had multiple close calls, but just couldnt get an arrow off.
Each morning I moved closer to the roost tree the 5 gobblers seemed to be using, and on the final morning, we snuck in at 4:30 in ninja-stealth mode to the blind that was set only 50-75 yards from the roost tree, the day before. I had spent some time the previous day walking around the roost tree looking back up at it to find an obvious flightpath the turkeys might take. My blind was 20 yards from where I thought they would fly down.
That morning, as the it got light, we could see 2 gobblers and 5 or 6 hens in the roost right above us. The big gobbler was at full strut while in the tree. Finally, they start to fly down, and lo and behold, the two gobblers land right in front of me at 20yards. they are right in the spot that we predicted they would land.
I took the shot and the arrow zipped through the bird just above the leg body junction. the tom hobbled a few steps and collapsed face first. I thought I had hit him too low, and already had an arrow nocked. He got back up, hopping as he tried to get out of there. I shot a second time, and the arrow appeared to hit him center mass, with a loud thump. However, the tom didnt seem to react to the second hit very much. He hobbled over to the hill that went up out of the river bottom and out to the prairie. He stopped on the hill as he couldnt make it any further. I sat back in my chair thinking, "theres no way he's going anywhere, I got two arrows through him". We waited there for about 40 minutes, and the bird appeared to be dead. As we started talking, moving and making noise, there were still some hens nearby, and they spooked. AS they ran up the hill, I watched in amazement as my "thought to be dead" gobbler made a mad dash hobble the rest of the way uphill. I got out of the blind as fast as I could and ran up the hill where the tom was last seen. There were no birds in sight. We searched for 3 hours looking under every cedar and deadfall we could see, but nothing. I think theres a good possibility the bird got airborne. After some final analysis, I discovered the second arrow did not actually hit the birds body, but passed harmlessy through his feathers. The first hit must have entered through the lower pelvis region, but only disabled one leg. Man, those are tough animals!!
Anyways, I learned more about turkey hunting in 5 days, than you could learn reading every book and article in publication. I also got a nice mulberry log from the same riverbottom that we were hunting in. I plan on returning next year with a bow made from this log.
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That's a great story Titan_bow. I figure it'll be poetic justice should you find the same turkey with a wounded leg and bring home with the bow made from the wood from your first trip. :)
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In addition to the great looking bow, I enjoyed your story. I was rooting for you through the whole story. sorry ya didn't find him.
VB
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Yep, me too. Thought you had that bird dead to rights ;), too bad he got away. They are tough - (this ain't primitive) but a buddy of mine shot one with a .223 one time - shattered left leg, and left wing, and made jellow out of left breast. I had to chase him down to ring his neck - he was moving along at a pretty good clip.