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Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: silent sniper on December 18, 2019, 08:28:49 pm

Title: Bamboo/Osage Hill-style (ASL) String Follow Longbow, 47@ 28
Post by: silent sniper on December 18, 2019, 08:28:49 pm
This is a bow that I finished a few months ago that I just now got around to taking pictures of. This bow was originally built as a backup bow for the PA bow trade. The bow was an excellent candidate for the trade, but  another bow I built was just a little better overall so that was the one I sent.

 After the trade was finished I decided to use this bow as my primary hunting bow this season. I have hunted this bow hard and did not baby it. It has spent over 40 hours on stand with me so far this season along with many early mornings and late evenings getting drug through thickets, briars,mud and everything else that comes with hunting deep in public land. The bow has been good to me so far, I have taken 2 deer with it as well as nailing a running rabbit. I will be taking this bow to Texas in February to chase some hogs and hopefully put sausage in the freezer.

So that is the background on the bow, here are the specs.

The bow is a bamboo backed osage longbow that is built in the hill style (ASL) string follow design. It is 65" NTN and draws 47@28.

The bow started as a 1/2" thick osage slat glued to a bamboo backing in a flat profile. The bow ended up with a touch over an inch of string follow when finished. The bow is almost 1-1/4" wide at the fades which is technically a little too wide to be considered an ASL longbow and would be closer to a flatbow profile.  A true Hill-style ASL would be between 1" and 1-1/8" at its widest part. This bow also has a power lam which is not correct to the original design either.

The riser is laminated black cherry and walnut. The bow has stained osage tip overlays and a cordovan stained back.

The finish is 8 coats of water based spar. A deer skin handle wrap and arrow shelf finish out the build.

This bow is wonderfully quiet and a great shooter. It is very soft on release and is easy to put the arrows where I want them to go.  With that said, this bow is not a fast high performance bow. it spits out my 11 GPP (508 grain) hunting arrows at 147 fps and 13 GPP ( 608 grains) arrows at 137 fps.  I did not shoot a 10GPP arrow through it, but I would expect it to be around the 153 fps mark.

 What this bow lacks in oomph it makes up for in handling and accuracy.  It points very naturally and is a true pleasure to shoot. This bow has been great to me so far and has quickly became one of my favorite bows.

Cheers,
Taylor

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Title: Re: Bamboo/Osage Hill-style (ASL) String Follow Longbow, 47@ 28
Post by: Swampman on December 18, 2019, 08:51:04 pm
That is another great looking bow.  Very nice bend and it sounds like a great hunting bow.  Congrats on another great build!
Title: Re: Bamboo/Osage Hill-style (ASL) String Follow Longbow, 47@ 28
Post by: JW_Halverson on December 18, 2019, 09:44:05 pm
I wouldn't waste a tear over this bow's performance. That dog hunts, as you have proven!
Title: Re: Bamboo/Osage Hill-style (ASL) String Follow Longbow, 47@ 28
Post by: rps3 on December 18, 2019, 10:40:36 pm
Great looking bow, and it sounds like it is more than capable of doing its job. A bows ability to shoot where your looking is at the top of my list when making a bow, and no chrono is going to measure that. May you have many more successfull hunts with it.
Title: Re: Bamboo/Osage Hill-style (ASL) String Follow Longbow, 47@ 28
Post by: leonwood on December 19, 2019, 06:22:04 am
Awesome! Great tiller and the bow proved itself already! Chrono results don't really matter anyway since most people measure fresh tillered bows with snappy releases.
Title: Re: Bamboo/Osage Hill-style (ASL) String Follow Longbow, 47@ 28
Post by: Hawkdancer on December 19, 2019, 02:01:18 pm
Very nice!  Good luck on the hog hunt!
Hawkdancer
Title: Re: Bamboo/Osage Hill-style (ASL) String Follow Longbow, 47@ 28
Post by: DC on December 19, 2019, 02:48:55 pm
Beautiful bow SS. I have a question but I'll post it separately.
Title: Re: Bamboo/Osage Hill-style (ASL) String Follow Longbow, 47@ 28
Post by: Marc St Louis on December 20, 2019, 08:35:16 am
Another nice one, good job
Title: Re: Bamboo/Osage Hill-style (ASL) String Follow Longbow, 47@ 28
Post by: bjrogg on December 20, 2019, 08:00:22 pm
Nice bow SS. And as they say on that TV show. It will kiiill.
Bjrogg
Title: Re: Bamboo/Osage Hill-style (ASL) String Follow Longbow, 47@ 28
Post by: silent sniper on December 20, 2019, 08:46:50 pm
Thanks guys! She has been a good one so far and I have a feeling she isn't done yet!

Cheers,
Taylor
Title: Re: Bamboo/Osage Hill-style (ASL) String Follow Longbow, 47@ 28
Post by: backtowood B2W on December 22, 2019, 05:00:37 am
This string follow bows have some accuracy which is hard to bet. This crono results are important for flight shooting IMO.
Very nicely done too - you really have a good eye for homogeneous bends
Title: Re: Bamboo/Osage Hill-style (ASL) String Follow Longbow, 47@ 28
Post by: Selfbowman on December 22, 2019, 09:21:42 am
Looking good. Arvin
Title: Re: Bamboo/Osage Hill-style (ASL) String Follow Longbow, 47@ 28
Post by: hoosierf on December 22, 2019, 10:44:57 am
 Best young bowyer on the forum. Great bow.
Title: Re: Bamboo/Osage Hill-style (ASL) String Follow Longbow, 47@ 28
Post by: M2A on December 22, 2019, 06:17:21 pm
Great looking tiller, and sure do like how you finished it up.
Mike