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Main Discussion Area => Shooting and Hunting => Topic started by: Flntknp17 on November 17, 2020, 10:33:57 pm

Title: Found a picture of my first selfbow deer
Post by: Flntknp17 on November 17, 2020, 10:33:57 pm
I found this picture the other day when I was going through a box of things I hadn't seen in a long time.  This is me in 1997 with my first selfbow deer.  I was 16 and it was my second deer overall.  I had killed a deer the year before with an old Browning recurve that I got at a garage sale and was totally hooked on traditional archery.  I cut the osage tree in Kansas in summer of 1996 and then let it season a year and this was my second bow from it.  The bow was unbacked osage and pulled 63#@27" and it became my favorite hunting bow for 20 years until it finally raised a splinter in 2017 and got a well earned retirement.  I can still remember every second of seeing that little buck work his way to me and seeing the Zwicky disappear and stick in the dirt on the other side.  I turn 40 next month and I was 16 in the picture, truly, making wood bows has been a part of me most of my life.  Love seeing all your pictures!  Keep posting them

Matt

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Title: Re: Found a picture of my first selfbow deer
Post by: Hawkdancer on November 17, 2020, 11:28:21 pm
Hope the years have not taken a toll on you!  Nice buck!  Especially since it was the first one!  And you made the bow!
Hawkdancer
Title: Re: Found a picture of my first selfbow deer
Post by: Pappy on November 18, 2020, 03:21:28 pm
Very nice , thanks for sharing that picture and story. Pappy
Title: Re: Found a picture of my first selfbow deer
Post by: PaSteve on November 19, 2020, 05:16:24 am
 Cool story. Nice buck, too.
Title: Re: Found a picture of my first selfbow deer
Post by: Allyn T on November 24, 2020, 06:57:47 pm
That's awesome man!
Title: Re: Found a picture of my first selfbow deer
Post by: JW_Halverson on November 27, 2020, 02:05:16 pm
Oh, the things you could tell that kid if you could go back in time! But it looks like he had some of it already figgered out.
Title: Re: Found a picture of my first selfbow deer
Post by: HH~ on December 08, 2020, 03:43:24 pm
That is a good pic. I think I see the arrow back on your quiver?

HH~
Title: Re: Found a picture of my first selfbow deer
Post by: Tradslinger on January 10, 2021, 08:55:36 am
Pretty awesome, is your old bow repairable?
Title: Re: Found a picture of my first selfbow deer
Post by: Tracker0721 on January 10, 2021, 10:16:37 am
That’s awesome!
Title: Re: Found a picture of my first selfbow deer
Post by: Flntknp17 on February 16, 2021, 10:45:04 am
Quote from: Tradslinger on January 10, 2021, 08:55:36 am
Pretty awesome, is your old bow repairable?

I suspect it is potentially repairable, but after 24 years, I feel like its earned a happy retirement.  The crack opened up an old drying check a little wider inside the edge of the limb.

Matt