Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: gene roberts on September 23, 2007, 10:37:33 pm
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what kind of bows do you use?
I use an old Herters 50# at 28 inches
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Nothing but a bunch of home made, second rate bows for this simpleton. Justin
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cool,mine is bout 5 years old.
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I shoot a selfbow. Jawge
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Hi Gene, I'm assuming you're new to this site, if you'll read back through the previous posts you'll see the sort of bows every one is making and shooting. I personally make and shoot mostly self bows, or sinew backed bows. The fun comes in making each one a little different. An english longbow here, a plains style reflex/decurve there, etc. Ron
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The hunting bow I made for this year is a 60" osage self bow with static recurve tips. She pulls 56#@26" and sends my sourwood shoot arrows with(somebody else's) rhyolite or obsidian stone points hafted to the business end, with authority. For back-up bows I have another 60" osage self bow that is 50/50% sap/heart wood with static recurved tips(57#@26") or a 65" boo backed bow with yew core and osage belly(53@26') or a 59 1/2" boo with hickory core and osage belly(52#@26") or my newest addition "Lil Bow", 48" rawhide backed osage self bow I just posted the other day. She pulls 54#@24". If I get a critter with each of these bows I may bring out my Mike Treadway "Moose Horn" long bow. It is the bow I got my first trad kill with and has medicine! 8) Pat
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My bow is real piece of junk compared to Justins second rate bows...bamboo backed maple. I can barely hit the tennis balls out there at precisely 17 .5 yards. Hope I dont get a shot at 18....I may have to hold high to hit it. (all tongue in cheek by the way)
My boo/maple is my bow this year. I have a (gulp) black glass binghams project that I have used for the last ten years that will serve as a good backup if I cannot bloody this wood stick. HOPEFULLY this weekend she will get christened.
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i'm going down to pappy's place (twin oaks) with skyler wilson.i think both of us are gonna make a self bow.
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sorry mine is acctualy bout 50 years old i forgot to clik the "0"
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After testing... experimenting... and a little more testing... I'm going with sinew backed D's. They seem to like me :).
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Hickory self bow - best shooter I have at the moment :).
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I'm shooting a sinew backed Osage,and Bamboo backed Osage,and Pat's "Medicine Bow" this year.
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All self bows. I've tended to go about things bass-ackwards; started with hickory backed-mulberry, hickory-backed hickory, and hickory-backed osage; now doing linen-backed osage and linen-backed ash. (Maybe for Christmas this year Santa will bring me some sinew.)
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Osage self bow, 58"ntn 46lb@24" it's a good shooter, I hope to get something with it this fall.
Sean
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I shoot al kinds of self bows with a few sinew and rawhide backed bows thrown in. :)
Pappy
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I used my copper-head osage bow this past weekend, and she got the job done just fine. My backup is an osage selfbow in the mid 50# range, my backup for that backup is a osage selfbow in the mid 50# range, my backup for that backup is a osage selfbow in the mid 50# range. I'm kind of short of backup bows at the moment...I'm sure Pappy would let me barrow one of his if the need arises. ;D
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AWESOME ;)
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Never used a wheel bow and I haven't used a glass bow in about 20 years.
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me neither,i'm bout to cause my school is starftin a wheely bow thing.
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Anything that can throw an arrow! ;D
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ha ha
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I shoot a hickory/bamboo rudderbow I made some time ago.
Then I have maybe 60 other bows, but my backup bows are from the 1970s like a red wing hunter #51@28" and a 47 Bear from the 1960s both are killer bows.