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Shadow Walker

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Re: Non-Primitive Bow Materials
« Reply #75 on: December 01, 2009, 08:22:55 pm »
Sounds cool, where did you get that stone drawknife? Iv'e been looking all over for one. Can't find one at lowe's or Home depot!

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« Reply #76 on: December 01, 2009, 08:25:53 pm »
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In the chronicles and diaries of Lewis and Clark they talk about a native American that had a steel bow apparently made from a wagon hoop.
Indians (Asian) have a rich history of Steel Bows.


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« Reply #77 on: December 01, 2009, 08:39:37 pm »
Cool bow!!
Shadow Walker, I was lying >:D But I know a few knappers that could make me a stone drawknife if I need.
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Shadow Walker

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« Reply #78 on: December 01, 2009, 10:03:33 pm »
Yeah, I knew you were kidding, but it would be cool!, however, primitive doesn't neccasarily mean stone age.Metal has been around for a few centuries. I wonder what kind of performance could be expected from that metal bow?

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« Reply #79 on: December 01, 2009, 11:17:54 pm »
Those Indian bows are so cool.  But I don't know what is more interesting, the steel limbs or the loose fiber string.
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Offline Jesse

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« Reply #80 on: December 01, 2009, 11:28:29 pm »
I had an antique steel bow. Manufactured in the USA I believe. Traded it to Eddie. After shooting the steel bow the only reason I can see to make one is if your out of wood. ;D not a great performer at all. Looks cool though
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« Reply #81 on: December 02, 2009, 12:50:36 am »
I had an antique steel bow. Manufactured in the USA I believe. Traded it to Eddie. After shooting the steel bow the only reason I can see to make one is if your out of wood. ;D not a great performer at all. Looks cool though

I suspect that their performance was not meaured by a chronometer.  ;D I have a vague recollection of reading about other advantages, but I certainly cannot attest to them.  It might have just been the social advantage of looks, which I would not discount for a prince, but I think production factors and or durability are more likely.  It definately would not be my first choice for hunting that is for sure. 
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Offline sailordad

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Re: Non-Primitive Bow Materials
« Reply #82 on: December 02, 2009, 01:33:09 am »
here i bet some of these might perform decent
not primitive,but old none the less

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Shadow Walker

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« Reply #83 on: December 02, 2009, 02:50:10 am »
There's enough steel there to build leaf springs for your truck, or you could cut them up and make some mighty fine spring steel rapier blades!. I like the short recurve to the far right though!

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Re: Non-Primitive Bow Materials
« Reply #84 on: December 02, 2009, 08:31:39 am »
thanks for the pic sailor. If anyone's interested, thats at the pope and young museum in chatfield, MN. you can't believe the stuff they have packed in there, it s a great place.
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Offline Dano

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« Reply #85 on: December 02, 2009, 10:16:04 am »
I've got a bow exactly like the one fifth from the left. It's light but a cool little bow. It's called a  Seefab Diana, made in Sweden.
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Offline Jesse

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Re: Non-Primitive Bow Materials
« Reply #86 on: December 02, 2009, 01:48:22 pm »
mine was the second to the left. very slow :)
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« Reply #87 on: December 02, 2009, 01:51:37 pm »
Funny how a thread about non primitive materials turned into showing steel bows ;D I see this getting moved to anything else shortly :)
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Re: Non-Primitive Bow Materials
« Reply #88 on: December 02, 2009, 02:09:41 pm »
Jesse, you know it will switch to food sooner or later....;D And the reason that we don't have a twenty-page set of itemized rules resembling a tax booklet or summons for a paternity suit (with bullet points, subparagraphs, sheaves of fine print and 8x10 glossy photographs with notations on the backs) is simply that we don't need them-we like simple stuff, that's why we make wooden bows.  Most members don't need that-we are a wooden bow site, and common sense and reading the general flow of things over a period of time should tell anyone who pays attention pretty much what is acceptable and unacceptable. There are only a couple people I've ever seen in all my years here who wanted to constantly argue and nitpick about the details of the rules instead of talk about archery. (not talking about you Okie-you're definitely not one of them.) It's not like we're going to come to your house and shoot you in the kneecaps if you post a bow backed with a strip of Goodyear Wrangler A/T radial, anyway. :D
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Re: Non-Primitive Bow Materials
« Reply #89 on: December 02, 2009, 02:54:34 pm »
It's not like we're going to come to your house and shoot you in the kneecaps if you post a bow backed with a strip of Goodyear Wrangler A/T radial, anyway. :D

Hmm... I wonder if used tire will work for a bow backing.... Got my cogs turning with that one Hillbilly!   ;D  -josh

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