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Offline OldBow

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Congratulations to Rich Bistline for His Laminate BOM Win
« on: April 05, 2010, 01:29:14 pm »
Congratulations to Rich Bistline of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
for His Distinctive Bamboo backed Ipe "Copperhead" Bow

http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php/topic,18830.0.html
From Rich:
Here's my latest bow...It's a highly r/d blank from Knightd, it's 60" oal, 58" ntn and 55# @ 27". It's bamboo backed Ipe, the
handle is hickory, shadua, marblewood and ipe. The limb tip overlays are macarta. THe bow is backed with a Copperhead skin
that was given to me by David. The finish is 4 coats of Tru-oil, 3 of poly and 2 of paste wax. The string is a 10 strand of 8125
with padded loops. hope ya'll like it....
And from you folks:
-"dude thats sweet   love the skins,the tiller the design
and 60"  hmmmmmmmmm me thinks thats a nice blind bow
" sailordad
-" Copperheads are always my favoret.Nice bow,the skin's on the bottom limb and from younger snakes.They don't start fadeing
here in WV untill there about 4 or 5 years old.Younger always have clearer makings."
crooketarrow
-"Almost to pretty to take hunting,almost. nicely done, hope to have those skills someday." n2huntn


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Re: Congratulations to HFD60 for His Laminate BOM Win
« Reply #1 on: April 05, 2010, 02:09:53 pm »
Congrats eh :)
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Re: Congratulations to HFD60 for His Laminate BOM Win
« Reply #2 on: April 05, 2010, 02:56:07 pm »
Congratulations - nice ipe-snake  :)
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Re: Congratulations to HFD60 for His Laminate BOM Win
« Reply #3 on: April 05, 2010, 04:32:57 pm »
Well done man!!  Beautiful bow deserves the win :)

Offline Keenan

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Re: Congratulations to HFD60 for His Laminate BOM Win
« Reply #4 on: April 05, 2010, 05:11:32 pm »
  Congratulations Rich.  Very nice bow

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Re: Congratulations to HFD60 for His Laminate BOM Win
« Reply #5 on: April 05, 2010, 05:16:05 pm »
Way to go rich. Congratulations. Well deserved.
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Re: Congratulations to HFD60 for His Laminate BOM Win
« Reply #6 on: April 06, 2010, 06:33:22 am »
Very sweet bow,nice job in all aspects.Congrats. :)
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Re: Congratulations to HFD60 for His Laminate BOM Win
« Reply #7 on: April 06, 2010, 08:49:46 am »
Congratulations! Well deserved!
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Re: Congratulations to Rich Bistline for His Laminate BOM Win
« Reply #8 on: April 06, 2010, 03:41:40 pm »
 Congratulations on a very unique bow.
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Re: Congratulations to Rich Bistline for His Laminate BOM Win
« Reply #9 on: April 06, 2010, 06:19:33 pm »
Congrats Rich. Very nice bow!!!
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Re: Congratulations to Rich Bistline for His Laminate BOM Win
« Reply #10 on: April 07, 2010, 01:51:05 am »
Thanks for all the compliments, this bow is by far my favorite so far  ;)
Rich Bistline
Harrisburg, PA