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Main Discussion Area => Shooting and Hunting => Topic started by: 4dog on July 10, 2014, 08:16:12 am

Title: show off your hunting bow for this season!
Post by: 4dog on July 10, 2014, 08:16:12 am
ill go first... ;)
Title: Re: show off your hunting bow for this season!
Post by: Pappy on July 10, 2014, 08:59:08 am
O that's pretty. ;) :) Not sure what i will start with yet, I usually hunt with several. ;) :)
 Pappy
Title: Re: show off your hunting bow for this season!
Post by: PEARL DRUMS on July 10, 2014, 01:01:10 pm
I usually decide that about 3 days before I go. Every time I think I found one, I build 3 more! I do have a leading contender that seems to be lingering since its conception.
Title: Re: show off your hunting bow for this season!
Post by: 4dog on July 10, 2014, 01:21:17 pm
last yrs bow i gave to my brother in law...he )fell in love with her...he.let me harvest a doe from his property...not with the bow though...lol...so i figured it was a fair trade...this yrs bow...is a better bow though...lol
Title: Re: show off your hunting bow for this season!
Post by: Pat B on July 10, 2014, 03:47:47 pm
This is one I plan on hunting this fall, "Lil Thumper". She's 56" t/t, 56#@26" with Texas Diamondback water snake over 2 layers of cow sinew. I'll probably be shooting poplar arrows or maybe hill cane with stone or trade points.
(http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y199/PatBNC/LilThumper007_zps2ac4c527.jpg) (http://s5.photobucket.com/user/PatBNC/media/LilThumper007_zps2ac4c527.jpg.html)
Title: Re: show off your hunting bow for this season!
Post by: JW_Halverson on July 10, 2014, 03:59:22 pm
Yeh, I reckon that ought do ok, Pat B.

4dog, careful hunting in copperhead country with that bow.  You might lay it down and pick up something a little more whip tillered by mistake!
Title: Re: show off your hunting bow for this season!
Post by: Pat B on July 10, 2014, 04:08:20 pm
I was hunting GA with a copperhead skin backed bow years ago and got run out of my treestand by a brown thrasher...two evenings in a row. Walking back to camp the second evening I realized it was the copperhead the brown thrasher was after, not me.  ;D
Title: Re: show off your hunting bow for this season!
Post by: Fred Arnold on July 10, 2014, 05:16:14 pm
Probably this one. Won't know for sure until the time comes.
Title: Re: show off your hunting bow for this season!
Post by: 4dog on July 10, 2014, 05:27:46 pm
I was hunting GA with a copperhead skin backed bow years ago and got run out of my treestand by a brown thrasher...two evenings in a row. Walking back to camp the second evening I realized it was the copperhead the brown thrasher was after, not me.  ;D

and this is why i didnt use ratsnake skins!!  ive seen em pestered by every bird!!!
Title: Re: show off your hunting bow for this season!
Post by: burchett.donald on July 12, 2014, 03:50:35 pm
  I'm rotating between two bows this season, maybe one will draw a kill...

  Any body recognize the 1st bow and who made it?
                                                                                                                   Don
Title: Re: show off your hunting bow for this season!
Post by: Crogacht on July 12, 2014, 04:58:47 pm
That's a halfeye bow, I was looking at it not long ago for inspiration  :laugh:
Title: Re: show off your hunting bow for this season!
Post by: burchett.donald on July 12, 2014, 06:29:46 pm
    Crogacht, You got that right! Rich's bows are recognized internationally...My next project is a bendy inspired by halfeye... ;)  I'm very pleased with it...Will hunt...
                                                                                                                          Don
Title: Re: show off your hunting bow for this season!
Post by: Crogacht on July 12, 2014, 08:55:20 pm
You got that right,

Haha so is mine :D

If you're going to master the piano, you don't play mary had a little lamb, you play Beethoven. I figure it's the same with bows, luckily we have a lot of masters around here to study :D
Title: Re: show off your hunting bow for this season!
Post by: 4dog on July 12, 2014, 10:25:58 pm
awesome pics guys...keep em comin...enjoy seeing what yall are hunting with!!
Title: Re: show off your hunting bow for this season!
Post by: osage outlaw on July 13, 2014, 09:51:51 am
As of now I'll probably use this bow.  It already knows what to do  ;D

(http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r55/clintanders/Hunting%20Indiana%20Buildalong/SDC15862b.jpg)
Title: Re: show off your hunting bow for this season!
Post by: PEARL DRUMS on July 14, 2014, 10:06:40 pm
I usually decide that about 3 days before I go. Every time I think I found one, I build 3 more! I do have a leading contender that seems to be lingering since its conception.

These two are riding around for 6 weeks with me this fall. The first one is a lovely gift from Pauly "The Tin Knocker" Sempre-something-or-another. The last is a bow I made up and is the subject of my above quote. Havent decided who my starter is yet. Both shoot identical arrows and both have identical POI for me.





Title: Re: show off your hunting bow for this season!
Post by: 4dog on July 15, 2014, 06:51:42 am
niiiiice kill osage...pearlie would be hard to stay with just one.
Title: Re: show off your hunting bow for this season!
Post by: TRACY on July 15, 2014, 09:10:56 am
These two are riding around for 6 weeks with me this fall. The first one is a lovely gift from Pauly "The Tin Knocker" Sempre-something-or-another. The last is a bow I made up and is the subject of my above quote. Havent decided who my starter is yet. Both shoot identical arrows and both have identical POI for me.


Take both to the stand and let the moment decide.

Tracy
Title: Re: show off your hunting bow for this season!
Post by: paulsemp on July 15, 2014, 11:04:31 am
That is quite the compliment Chris. When i gave it to you at Marshall I felt like it wasn't performing like it did for me at home. I'm glad it came around for you. Guess it just needed the right arrows.
Title: Re: show off your hunting bow for this season!
Post by: PEARL DRUMS on July 15, 2014, 11:58:38 am
It shoots a mean arrow Pauly. I wouldn't hunt with it if it wasn't perfect.
Title: Re: show off your hunting bow for this season!
Post by: Pappy on September 09, 2014, 10:50:19 am
I always like to start out with a good assortment of bows and arrows/heads,for me they all shoot about the same or I work on them until they do , :) so it just depends on the mood I am in on which one I grab for the hunt. :) :)
   Pappy
Title: Re: show off your hunting bow for this season!
Post by: IsaacW on September 09, 2014, 11:19:44 am
Well... I am hunting in 10th century attire this season, but my bow I do not have a proper period longbow built yet (got some stellar wood while working on a logging crew this summer that is now curing!!!!).  SO... I will likely be using this osage flatbow but with different arrows and quiver...

(http://frenchinwisconsin.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/bowarrows.jpg)


Here is the start of my arrows for this season.  They are goose fletched with glue and linen thread.  Nocks are reproduction bronze nocks from originals unearthed at Haithabu. Points will be forged and attached with glue, sinew, and a thin birch bark wrapping to cover the sinew and glue.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v189/waltei/imagejpg1_zps579e93fb.jpg)
Title: Re: show off your hunting bow for this season!
Post by: Badly Bent on September 09, 2014, 09:47:40 pm
I like your gear there Isaac, you'll be hunting in style with that set-up.
Title: Re: show off your hunting bow for this season!
Post by: IsaacW on September 09, 2014, 10:02:53 pm
I like your gear there Isaac, you'll be hunting in style with that set-up.

Thanks!  I hope too  ;)
Title: Re: show off your hunting bow for this season!
Post by: Weylin on September 09, 2014, 10:16:04 pm
I've already been out for a couple of weekends in the Coast Range hunting elk. I've been carrying around "Compadre" my yew take-down. I almost had a shot at a curious cow. There just a few to many sticks between me and her lungs. I couldn't take the shot. Going out again this weekend. Hopefully I'll get a shot.

(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5195/14269055103_1580992db6.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/nJUCXr)

(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5274/14245544641_560094e1c7.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/nGQ97D)
Title: Re: show off your hunting bow for this season!
Post by: Pappy on September 10, 2014, 05:22:38 am
Nice set up's all look deadly. :)
   Pappy
Title: Re: show off your hunting bow for this season!
Post by: 4dog on September 10, 2014, 08:26:35 am
good to see others rigs...keep em comin boys!!!   should be plenty of pics for the hunting board this season!!
Title: Re: show off your hunting bow for this season!
Post by: trapperDave on September 26, 2014, 09:06:45 pm
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g38/trapperDave/101_3349_zpsd2b06cb9.jpg) (http://s52.photobucket.com/user/trapperDave/media/101_3349_zpsd2b06cb9.jpg.html)
Title: Re: show off your hunting bow for this season!
Post by: osage outlaw on September 26, 2014, 09:58:42 pm
Nice looking set up Dave.  Good luck next week.

-Clint
Title: Re: show off your hunting bow for this season!
Post by: TRACY on September 26, 2014, 10:52:49 pm
Nice looking setup Trapperdave ! Those arrows turned out fantastic! Best of luck and post a pic or two when you get your deer ;)

Tracy